Friday glee fears the non-inevitable

[rydra_wong]

Climbing? Training? Boosted? Beyond even trying to process what's happening in the world?

Video: Fear Of The Inevitable (V7?), a gorgeous and very tall boulder problem at Salt Point.

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[hermionesviolin]

I'd been feeling unlikely to climb yesterday, but did end up feeling up for it and climbed 4 walls with my friend D 💪🏻

[rydra_wong]

Woohoo! \o/

[juliet]

have the covid so no climbing for me this week :( (or last, because last week was when doop came down with it so we've all been in the house since).

Probably won't next week either because a) even if I've tested out of isolation by then I should wear a mask indoors & I don't like climbing in a mask; and b) everyone keeps telling me It Is Sensible To Rest After Covid To Avoid Long Covid. So hopefully the week after but I suppose I'd better keep it to not-physically-challenging-things for a bit :/ oh well!

[rydra_wong]

Awwww, crap, I'm sorry you have the plague; I hope the vaccines keep it mild. How's doop doing?

b) everyone keeps telling me It Is Sensible To Rest After Covid To Avoid Long Covid.

Yep, UKBouldering.com is currently full of strong young men who got Covid, got better, felt fine, did a hard training session, then had to lie on a sofa for the next three weeks.

Even without Long Covid per se, it definitely seems easy to overdo it, land yourself in a pit of fatigue, and then have to take a while longer to recover from that.

[juliet]

It's been super super mild for me: "an increase in my usual allergy symptoms" (to quote the Zoe app question ;) ) + mild sore throat + mild fatigue (generalised weariness after doing anything however slight, not proper wiped out fatigue). No temperature or cough or anything. If it hadn't been for the positive test (which only appeared 2 days after symptoms first began & only a very faint line at that) I would have thought it was at worst a mild head cold with a surprisingly large fatigue component. I am pretty much back to normal now other than sniffle/sneeze (which could BE my usual allergy symptoms as it is That Time Of Year) though cannot test out of isolation until Sun/Mon.

My tentative working theory is that the week during which there was covid floating around the house (despite our best efforts at isolating!) before it actually got me may have got my adaptive immune response starting to kick up ahead of time.

Doop (Patient Zero) got it worst: mild-flu levels of temp/sore throat, significant fatigue, nasty cough which is still lingering despite now being out of isolation & testing negative. But they're feeling mostly OK again now. (I have been Saying Things about resting to them too!) Pete was halfway between us; L (only unvaxxed one, due to age) had a cracking temperature (over 40 at one point) but only for a couple of days, was Very Emotional for a couple more days, and now seems back to normal.

Even without Long Covid per se, it definitely seems easy to overdo it, land yourself in a pit of fatigue, and then have to take a while longer to recover from that.

Yeah :/ which I do not want, and keep reminding myself of it!