Duncan74 wrote:
monty wrote:
But reading through this forum regarding long term affects is depressing. // Yes it is, but it is also enlightening, and someone in your position is in a perfect spot to take advantage of all the stories and information here. Should not even be a thing to decide on any silly short term gain, vs the long term horrible affects that could and are happening to many athletes...
As someone coming off 2 full years of injury and just getting back to consistent training (still with limited running) in the last month, the posts here have made me stay totally sedentary for the 7 days since I tested positive. OK, first 3 days covid made that a non question, but the posts here and the comments of my coach and colleagues all mean I'm doing nothing at all until late next week (day 14) at least.
Possibly too conservative? Maybe.
Possibly too aggressive, no.
So worse case I'm 1 week down on where I could have been, best case I'm 6 months + ahead. And at 47 then 1 week behind is laughably insignificant, but 2 more years off possibly/probably means I've run my last race.
That's my dilemma now. Tested positive on Sunday, feeling better now but have done zero activities since then. I did cancel my HIM for June so that I dont feel pressured to training and pushing too hard. But when to get back to exercising? Even though I feel that I can go out for an easy run or bike this weekend I think I will hold off and tri a group bike ride on Monday. It feels so weird for to think of no exercise for an entire weekend though. and in my case its all mental or from reading this, otherwise I wouldn't have thought twice about going for a run tomorrow.