Okay, I’m hoping someone has had something similar happen or, one of the many, medical professionals may have some advise. Been basically sidelined from my Kona build for 5 days now due to weird leg swelling! Swelling is bilateral and was good for about 4-5lbs per freaking leg! I had recently tapered for a 70.3 Vineman on July 13th and that was followed by an easy, recovery week then went to a team training camp in Tahoe and buried myself. This led me to believe I was having some sort of Rhabdo response so I went to my primary care doc and got some blood work and urine testing. Everything came back perfect except my Esinophils which were 26- normal is 0-5. When I looked this up online the most common reason for this to be so high is an allergic reaction. Last week I got bit by something at 5am at the start of my run. Most likely a spider I would guess as I do not know if many bees, wasps etc… are out and about before daylight? So, now my thought is its a reaction to the bite and not an overtraining issue. Swelling has gone down in the last few days but still is significant enough to make me question resuming my scheduled workouts. I have absolutely zero swelling anywhere else. Completely perplexed. My doc wants me to re-test next week but I’m going a bit stir crazy being sidelined!! Anyone ever hear of anything like this?
if you’re in the M55-59 agegroup, I’d say do no further training till you arrive at the start-line in Kona.
otherwise, having a very light or no training week about 8-9 weeks out will do you no harm.
Take the frau out for an extra weekday dinner to curry favour for the tough training weeks ahead, read that novel that you’re been putting off for the past few months etc
just enjoy the break and then be recharged for the rest of the build.
Have you been travelling lately by plane for long trips? I have a teammate who had swollen legs as well. He was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. You may want to rule that out with your doctor?
Don’t worry if you have to take some time off. It will not hurt you to take a week of no training or light training. What will hurt you is if you continue to train hard and not let it heal 100%. Trust your fitness, you already have the base. You body could be pretty fatigued from your camp
Well I’m in the 40-44 AG and male so that rules out pregnancy- I hope… my wife, who has been running the same route, says to me this morning- “you know, yesterday I saw two black widows hanging low in their webs on the bridge” we live by the a river and all my run are along a bike trail that follows the river. This specific morning was a two hour run and I remember being bit just ath end of the bridge. This was at about 4:45 am and at the beginning of my run- this was last Thursday. I swatted whatever it was, stopped to look at the bite- it hurt like hell and continued on. The bite was right on my waist line- running with no shirt; it’s been super hot here in Sacramento lately. If it was a BW bite, the poison would have had 1:45 minutes to work its way in to my system during the run. I was pretty convinced it was some sort of bite but my wife saying what she said about the BW’s sorta freaks me out… Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I know it’s not the end of the world but just sucks when everything is going so good to be derailed and not knowing what is going on with your body just adds to it. At least I’m not pregnant! Two girls ages 6 & 9 is plenty!!
Have you been travelling lately by plane for long trips? I have a teammate who had swollen legs as well. He was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. You may want to rule that out with your doctor?
^^^This. If it’s a bite, fine, it will go away, but if it is DVT you could die or have a stroke, esp if you have a 6 hour flight to Hawaii coming up. Good news is, it’s highly unusual to have clots in both legs at the same time.
No recent travels and the swelling is in both legs… It’s been a week now- very weird? Swelling has gone down a bit with still quite restricting. Following up with the doc today but will probably give it through the weekend before I resume any type of rigorous training.
Have you been travelling lately by plane for long trips? I have a teammate who had swollen legs as well. He was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. You may want to rule that out with your doctor?
^^^This. If it’s a bite, fine, it will go away, but if it is DVT you could die or have a stroke, esp if you have a 6 hour flight to Hawaii coming up. Good news is, it’s highly unusual to have clots in both legs at the same time.
Doesn’t need to be a plane ride. Long car drive after a hard long workout or race can lead to DVT. Believe me, I know.
Have you been travelling lately by plane for long trips? I have a teammate who had swollen legs as well. He was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. You may want to rule that out with your doctor?
^^^This. If it’s a bite, fine, it will go away, but if it is DVT you could die or have a stroke, esp if you have a 6 hour flight to Hawaii coming up. Good news is, it’s highly unusual to have clots in both legs at the same time.
Doesn’t need to be a plane ride. Long car drive after a hard long workout or race can lead to DVT. Believe me, I know.
From what I understand, It would be extremely rare for both legs to be affected in the same way… no long car ride for either. Doc still seems to think its a mild case of Rhabdo- says to give it some more time than get my levels re-tested Monday.
my wife, who has been running the same route, says to me this morning- “you know, yesterday I saw two black widows hanging low in their webs on the bridge” we live by the a river and all my run are along a bike trail that follows the river. This specific morning was a two hour run and I remember being bit just ath end of the bridge. This was at about 4:45 am and at the beginning of my run- this was last Thursday. I swatted whatever it was, stopped to look at the bite- it hurt like hell and continued on. The bite was right on my waist line- running with no shirt; it’s been super hot here in Sacramento lately. If it was a BW bite, the poison would have had 1:45 minutes to work its way in to my system during the run. I was pretty convinced it was some sort of bite but my wife saying what she said about the BW’s sorta freaks me out…