So here’s a tip. Don’t get used to running at a new “maxed-out” pace, then forget to use your asthma inhaler one morning and try to maintain that pace! That was a mistake. It would seem that the asthma drugs did have a large role in my performance recovery. My unintentional experiment lead to a great deal of suffering, and coming in 40 seconds slower than I’m now accustomed to. Ugh! [...]
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Four runs into the use of my new asthma inhaler, I achieved my personal best time on my morning run. It was only ten seconds better, on a two mile run, but considering that I had been nearly two *minutes* behind that time the week before, I’m feeling pretty damned good about it! I can’t say for sure that my performance recovery is wholly due to the asthma medication, but it’s quite certain that it’s [...]
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I finally caved in. After decades of resisting the urge to use drugs to improve my performance, I could take no more. Exercise induced asthma, you win! Since the first day I ran last June, I’ve had a bit of trouble breathing while I was at my maximum exertion. It’s a problem I’ve seen rarely in my life, cropping up only when I was being unreasonably athletic (swimming across Great South Bay, playing soccer, [...]
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Between my horrendous cold, and the occasional slush-storm, I’ve been back on that blasted machine for ten days now. The longer I go, the larger percentage of my day I spend thinking about running, or looking up running articles on the internet. I’m actually having dreams about running! I think I may have a problem…
So after nearly two weeks on an exercise machine, yesterday the temperature abruptly jumped, and I got out on the road to run again. It was rough. The machines may keep your aerobic fitness up, but they don’t keep your feet and joints ready for all that impacting, and there’s just something physically more challenging about actually being on the road, for whatever reason. My time is way up, by over a minute. [...]
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Just a quick update. It seems I have to amend my temperature rule on runs to include wind-chill. Today was around 30 degrees, according to the forecast, until I went out to run, and nearly had the skin flayed off my face! I’ve never had the tip of my nose chap before…
Ugh! So after one sub-twenty-degree run in the new year, I instituted a policy of no more sub-twenty-degree runs! At least until I find some gear that protects my nose and lungs while I run, anyway. Who knew you could freeze your nose hairs? Also, as it turns out, huffing in really cold air is a really great way to set off a coughing fit… This has meant that I got in two runs [...]
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I managed a last run of 2011, the morning of New Year’s Eve! Coincidentally, it also marked exactly six months that I’ve been running. It was a surprisingly important milestone to me, important enough to undertake even though we were in Maryland visiting friends. I should however, have considered the following: It’s warm here! In Maryland, 50 degrees with no wind and a strange firey ball in the sky is a whole lot hotter [...]
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Maybe it was the clouds. Maybe it was the season, or the fact that I didn’t sleep well, or that shit just happens all at once some days. Whatever it was, this morning’s run was just the most unpleasant, infuriating experience I’ve had in a long time. It started with a general lack of motivation. My mistake was looking out the window. If I’d just seen the weather report, “32 degrees, slight chance of [...]
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I think I may be turning into a bit of a masochist. It seems that the more I torture myself while I run, the more satisfying I find my results. Yesterday’s run was devoid of breathing problems, thanks to pseudoephedrine, but all the old aches and pains came back with a vengeance! It was so intense and surprising, my focus on the pain became almost meditative. I actually pushed into the pain, and in [...]
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