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I got this one badly wrong. My recovery from Co-Vid has not been good.
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“My normal resting heart rate is around 32 to 36 in the mornings if I'm not on a rest week, but not a super heavy training block around that. I'm finding at the moment I'm resting 10 beats higher than that. On the bike, almost as soon as I throw my leg over the bike, I'm seeing my heart rates 30, 40 beats higher, almost always.”
“There's one study I see and it was shown that, and it wasn't a brilliant study, it was shown that one quarter of all athletes who had COVID, short signs of myocarditis, post-COVID, but this study actually didn't correct for how many athletes might have myocarditis anyway, which the baseline figure definitely isn't zero.”
“Generally you're looking for 10 days of all symptoms of stopped. So that's 10 days of chest pain, heart arrhythmia, shortness of breath, 10 days for all that have stopped before you return to light training. If you have repeated symptoms or you're getting more chest pain or anything like that after the 10 day break, then it's time to go in and get further examination.”
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