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I was hoping that I’d be done with COVID-19, but I seemingly got one of the variants that breaks through past immunity from the infection itself plus that vaccine. It started Saturday in hindsight when I felt a little tired and thought I did more poorly at the vault WOD than I expected. Sunday I did a test and it was positive. I felt okay enough to do a that really didn’t push me that much. As the day went on, I felt progressively worse. By the time I went to bed, It was full on fever, with my heart rate sitting around 110 and ten to 120. Normally, my resting heart rate is in the low to mid-fifties

Monday I did a shift with it modified down to just air squats instead of goblet squats and still took it slower. It’s what my condition called for. I just wanted to move a bit and not kill myself. I didn’t really need to get my heart rate up, considering it was 120 to 130 laying on the couch. That’s so ridiculous to me. The WOD went okay and served its purpose.

Yesterday I had the highest and steadiest fever, so I didn’t do a WOD. I just laid around on the couch and also sat out in the sunshine on the patio for a bit. That felt good at least. The sun was out nice and strong yesterday with clear blue skies. The slight breeze actually made it feel all the more refreshing.

I woke up feeling much better today with no fever. Maybe a slightly higher temperature than normal, but not a fever. The coughing is going away too. I had shitty sleep yet again, so I am feeling super exhausted but still wanted to attempt a WOD. I knew I wasn’t going to go all in on it and chose to do last Saturday’s WOD because I could cut it in the middle and still get a good workout in. It felt good. I purposely slowed down the sandbag clean and jerks. I kept a slower than normal but steady pace on the bike parts except for the final round when I knew I was stopping after that.

It felt good to get my heart rate up and my breathing wasn’t really influenced at all other than just the dry throat. I was happy as hell about that because I felt like this time COVID hit me harder. While my resting heart rate is still up quite a bit after the WOD, my heart rate recovered quickly down to the 90s.

I did cut the WOD in half because I just felt like that was the smart thing to do for today. I wanted to avoid getting the coughing started, and I certainly didn’t need to go all in with intensity today. It was more about seeing how my body would respond to a bit harder of a workout than I’ve done since Saturday.