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Andreu Blanes, an international long-distance runner, has had muscle pain for two months and has not been able to train intensely after he was immunized for the third time against covid 19 two months ago.
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For now, no solution found.
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Nobody wants this situation to sound like an anti-vaccine message. “My mother and my sister had a couple of bad days, but they quickly recovered, like many other people. That’s why, when hours after the third puncture I had a slight fever and general malaise, I didn’t give it any importance.” Andreu Blanes He is an international athlete. In his mind is the 3,000 hurdles test of the Paris Olympics in 2024. But before, much before, there were other challenges, outdoors or on the road. Everything has had to be postponed because after receiving the third dose of the vaccine against covid his body has collapsed. There are only aches and pains. For now, the doctors who treat him have not found a remedy.
On Sunday, in the 10 K -as it is defined in athletic terms- in Zaragoza, his body definitively said enough is enough. This Wednesday he is undergoing tests at the IMED hospital in Valencia. “I have a personal best in the 10-kilometre route of 28.50. For this reason, finishing the Saragossa race above 33 minutes it was a complete disaster for me”.
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This is it, obligatory stop.
On Sunday I ran the 10k in Zaragoza and my body couldn’t. I started at a very controlled pace but in the 6km I couldn’t take it anymore and I could only ride to the finish line.
(Follow…) pic.twitter.com/jCybCerA8s– Andreu Blanes Reig (@AndreuBlanes) April 5, 2022
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He wanted to try, at least go out to let his legs roll, to feel the freedom of the asphalt, but from the beginning something was not right. Pain and tiredness, when forced in Zaragoza the body did not respond to him. “I reached the finish line as best I could,” she tells this newspaper. Starting at kilometer six, the race Andreu Blanes it became a real martyrdom. “I tried several times after the third dose. After 10 days, a month, and this last one, after two months. But something is not right,” she wrote on social networks to summarize his physical situation.
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a swollen node
Because something was wrong a few days after receiving the third dose. “A node in the armpit began to swell.” And, from there, the athletic world of Blanes went into total crisis. He was going to train. She had to stop. He did a series. Impossible to complete it. She forced the body again. Muscle aches began. And it was no longer the legs, but the head, to find an answer, unless the doctors found a clear diagnosis in her case. No way. Training less and less, and in worse circumstances.
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“I delayed the third dose so as not to have any sequelae before Spanish Cross Country Championship. And, really, I did very well there because I finished the test in fifth position and with very good feelings. I was at the level of the best in Spain and, frankly, I felt very well physically. And that’s when I decided to take the third dose. Consciously, as far as I know, unless I have been asymptomatic, I have never had covid.”
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He rested with the usual symptoms after the anticovid vaccines. She brought down the fever and returned to the plaid. “I thought it would be something transitory but my body couldn’t handle the intensity of a workout. And everything got worse in the Spanish University Championships”, it happened a month ago now. Cross country the body still did not respond. “My intention was to prepare now to face the 10,000 in the Spanish championship. But as I am I am not able to considerany kind of short-term goalThe”.
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Blanes is 30 years old and is from Onil, in the region of L’Alcoyà, before opting for traditional athletics he stood out in the orienteering races, where the athlete must go through certain points of a route with the sole help of a map and compass. In this discipline he has been ten times champion of Spain, runner-up in the junior world and seventh in the absolute World Cup in 2015 and 2018. Now, it is his turn to rest.
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