Went for a run with the wife and the dog, got soaked, loved it.
Anyone else find post Covid their heart rate when exercising was much higher? My breathing felt comfortable but my HR was about 10-15 beats higher than where it should have been
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I should have gone out today but my CBA lately is strong. The hips are still troublesome at night and I have a 50km race next Tuesday.
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Hard ( for me) bike intervals, on tired legs and too little sleep, excuses over !
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Failed the last hard interval at 29 mins, in fact I didnāt start itā¦ so perfect session.
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Fairly sure mine was over for a while, but maybe not that much. More that it felt like after giving blood where everything felt about 5-10% harder and couldnāt get top speed.
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I paid proper attention to hr after covid ( Jan this year )
I know it was rare but some endurance athletes ( thatās us !) experienced serious issues lost covid, but most probably went at it too hard too soon Iām guessing ?
Looking back in the bible I didnāt run for three weeks, and avoided cardio
A month later it was back to ā normal ā
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I had something viral the week before Cotswolds race back in July. The Covid tests never turned positive, but part of me wonders as all the symptoms were there.
By race day I was on the mend, but probably still shouldnāt have started. In my head I knew it was a bad idea.
The actual race was uneventful apart from being very slow and being sick all over my handlebars. But the following week, went out for a gentle run with a friend. About 3km in my HR suddenly dropped and I went clammy and pale, had to sit down in the road for a bit and then walked home. And there was one night about a week after when I woke up in the middle of the night with my heart bumping all over the place for about 30 seconds, think it was possibly a burst of AF. Never had anything like it before or since, thankfully.
Havenāt mentioned this before as didnāt want to seem like a drama queen, but seeing as weāre talking about it. If I ever get something similar Iāll definitely be taking it easy until well over it & not doing any smackdowns.
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Yeah it was nothing crazy, was peaking at 166 where has I would have expected 150-154 for that effort.
Ill be taking it wasy till I feel fully over it.
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30 minute spin class, heavy legs. Need to get back into training this week.
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Done some swimming
First swim since Outlaw 21, managed 1000m over 3 stints.
22 weeks til Lanza - donāt want to peak too soon 
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Found my big boy pants. 8km, road/trail, 50.23.
'twas grim, very grim
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25 mins yoga with Adriene this morning
1 hr bike in the garage - computrainer (old school) 70.3 California course
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Lunges with 20Kg on the shoulders. Bloody āell, didnāt manage to do many!!!
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Final swim of the year done. 3 pyramid sets to take me up to 3800m. Eldest was up half the night and I was absolutely exhausted but forced myself to stick with it. Was on fumes by the end so it was a fairly painful pace - so slow Poet would probably consider it ban worthy, but itās over. And a year ago I could barely swim more than a few hundred metres of freestyle, so progress.
Wondering if I can get away with stealing one of the kidsā selection boxes.
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Love them
But thatās quite a bit of weight !
First run in 2 weeks.
6.5k. 84m elevation. 28 minutes.
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Training when sick.
Pause for heckling.
I just want to do 30 mins easy on the turbo this morning, and an easy run tonight.
Iām exhausted, hacking my lungs up and feel terrible. But Iāve been laying around for a week, and the week before was no training because I was covering my wifeās jobs too. My whole body, apart from my lungs, throat and head, wants train.
My propaganda plan is to pretend that itās good for meā¦because the cold air and exercise will get me to hack up more phlegm and get it out of my system. Then I might get some sodding sleep.
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Does your body crave it like Ashley Horner? 
Personally Iād do stuff that doesnāt get you out of breath.
Weights
Press ups
Stretching
Static circuit.
I know itās frustrating but you will gain nothing and could make it worse.
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Iāve got HR on the line, they want to know who your line mgr is!
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71km 3hr solo ride.
Standard route.
Bailed out of 100km as my feet were cold 
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