Back after having just about every infection known to mankind!

[LeeU]

So I started my Christmas holidays last year and had a couple of weeks of relative peace, good runs and feeling absolutely amazing, Christmas day came and went and quite unusually, I didn't get the flu when I started the holidays (it's almost been a tradition for me to have flu over Christmas).

Then, after Boxing Day I started feeling a little dizzy, light headed and sick, I thought nothing of it to be honest and avoided driving, etc. I ended up being taken to the out of hours GP surgery to be told I had an inner ear infection, lovely, just what you need.

I started with a sore throat, then a cough, etc, etc, etc, back to the GP, throat and chest infection, super, again just what you want.

Just over 5 weeks later, I'm back at work on light jobs only, I work in IT designing solutions so I don't due anything heavy!

This morning, I still have a little bit of 'stuff' on my chest but I had to make a start, onto the treadmill, I'd promised Mrs LeeU that I wouldn't over do it; to be fair I did half expect her to be stood there with an inhaler and defibrillator (the running version of a fire extinguisher I suppose).

I stuck to walking uphill, starting at 3 degrees and working my way up to 20 degrees, I walked at a brisk pace, I did sweat quite a bit but completed the 30 minutes I had decided I was going to do.

My plan is to continue doing this for a few weeks then ease back into a light jog/shuffle. Damn, I missed the treadmill and the jogging.

BUT I'm back and ready to go.

[icklegui Graduate]

Hope you feel totally better soon! Seems like it has been rough.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

I missed this post...!!! Welcome back you!!!

I hope you are really starting to feel better... there have been so many folk on the IC, me included... we have all had plenty of company.

Take it, as ever, slow and steady

[LeeU Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks OldFloss, I'm working my way back in slowly, it's amazing how much these things hit you and hard it is to get going again, it's not a motivation thing, I'm eager to get going but at the minute it's taking all my effort to do a brisk walk up hill for 30 minutes!

Ok, it's a brisk walk up a 3, 6, 10,15 and then 20 degree incline (keeping the same brisk pace).

I'll get there again, may need to restart from the beginning and see how it goes.

Hope you're feeling better soon too.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to LeeU]

I AM.. but have started back at the beginning...Just taking it gently. Thank youx