Getting Back To Exercise After Illness and Racing
This was very my very slow longest run a month after getting sick It's been about 6 weeks since I did Ironman Des Moines and it's been really tough getting back to training. I had a rough race and didn't plan to rush back into training because I didn't have anything scheduled after this race. If you read my last blog post about my race recap then you know I got a little sick a few weeks before the race. It wasn't COVID just a mild cold and I felt like I recovered pretty good. I hadn't been sick for many years leading up to this cold and I never even got COVID! Coming back from the race my boyfriend went to Peru the day after we got back. He was only gone a few days but apparently he had COVID. I had a very brief interaction with him for only a few seconds and apparently that was enough to give me COVID. He was only sick a few days with COVID but I was in bed for about 5 days and felt terrible. I didn't have much of a cough but boy the body-aches and