[justrudd]

Now? Yeah. I could hit a 7 minute. But it would hurt. I don’t recover as fast as I did pre-COVID after doing conditioning work.

I got it end of March, and I didn’t start training again until end of May I believe? Strength came back relatively quickly. I was back to my normal training weights in about a month. Conditioning is taking a lot longer. In June, a brisk walk would have me gasping. I started slow jogging in July. I started picking up the pace in August. I’m still gasping but not as much. And my resting heart rate isn’t back to where it was. I’m at 56bpm right now. Pre-COVID I was 47bpm.

Long term? I have no idea. Looks like right now my lung capacity was affected. Given my gains in the past 2 months, I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll get back to where I was.

[alex504]

Have you gotten tested for any possible heart damage? There are some reports of athletes being benched because of a heart condition caused by COVID that can cause sudden death during exercise.

[bamboozled]

That's a pretty big claim, do you have anything to back it up?

How many athletes have caught Covid19 and then dropped dead afterwards when exercising?

[mwarkentin]

Most likely referring to this: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-rodri...

[bamboozled]

Missing the season vs dying though ?

[slavak]

Myocarditis can absolutely cause death during exercise, as the poster said. They didn't say any athletes actually died due to this.

https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/exercise-during-myocar...

[bamboozled]

Of course it can; however, it's not solely caused by corona virus.

Is it verified, conclusively, that those people didn't already have a form of Myocarditis?

[justrudd]

I haven’t. I skipped my yearly physical in April. Not sure when I’ll get it rescheduled, but I’ll make a note to ask about this.