Hi All. Came down with a bad chest infection 4 weeks ago.Any who have had a chest infection will know there is no way on this earth you can go running.Had the usual antibotics & steroids and after 2 weeks I thought it would be gone but it was not. IT took 3 weeks before I could lay down to go to sleep without coughing.
The 4th week to be honest I could of started but what with loosing sleep over "friendly" neighbor trying to pinch our land and stop me opening my garage window I have done for 40 years + lost motivation I decided to give it another week.
In all honesty as I am not training for anything it did not matter and was n ot going to get stressed over not running. Went onto treadmill Monday but only for 10 mins and felt OK. Today I decided to go outside and set runkeeper for 15 min run 1 minute walk & 15 min run. I ended up walking for about 2 mins at the break as my throat was burning & another 1 min during the last 15 mins as my legs were like lead.
I was surprised I was able to run for almost 30 mins non stop be it slug pace. I thought after 4 weeks back on the couch I would of lost a lot more fitness. My breathing settled down as normal and not ache from calves like we used to get at start of c25k. I do not think I could do 5k at the moment unless I did run/walk. Today I run 2.57K which I am pleased with.
Chest infections really take it out of you and the effects can last for ages afterwards so you were right not to rush back to running. Lots of good food, sleep and perhaps walks to build up the fitness again slowly. But take care because these things can trick us into thinking they've gone and then can reappear taking us back into sickness land.
Andante, andante as Abba says 🙂 (just been to see the second Mama Mia film) and I've now got this earworm..... but good advice for all of us.......