Training Log Archive: fluceluce

Quick run up Cunswick Scar after getting back from Robin Hoods bay. I don't understand how I operate, after 3 x 5:30am starts and running around the place supporting Cat on the C2C race, I am somehow less tired than on Wednesday. Felt absolutely great in comparison! QOM and PB for the full ascent....

Post Day 2 coast to coast race jaunt up 9 standards from kirkby stephen with Rich. Beautiful weather, first time I've got a view from up there! Good leg stretch! Feeling loads better than Wednesday despite 2 early starts.

Pre pizza run with Lizzie, Rob, Wil, Helen, Ben and Sabs. Not my day, absolutely knackered and a real effort so cut it short. Day 17/18 days work with one day off...might have something to do with it.

Monday night paddle chasing Bruce around the islands doing a TT. 15 mins warm up followed by TT - 2.6miles in 27:20. Pleased with that considering Bruce did 27:30 a month ago (25 today....some training gone on). Then a bit of warm down.

I've found a sport where my muscles get tired before my breathing goes mental, maybe time to do a bit more paddling :-)

Post work run to burneside and back with Wil and Helen.

Park run cancelled due to national stone skimming championships (yes really), so ran the route anyway before setting up kayak hire for the day.

Trot around farleton knott and good catch up with Cat

Paddle round Belle isle before BBQ :-)

Run with the SPOOK girlies in Coniston. Up weatherlam and back via levers water. Lovely day but blustery on the tops! Rolled R ankle just before levers water and just as always didn't damage anything on the outside of my ankle but wrenched tib post. Really sore running off even after an icing in the lake, but eased by the evening after another icing/swim in coniston.

Met Jane after work and we headed into Bowland for some bogtrotting. Thought I should run the local hills before I no longer work in Lancaster. I was promised great views of absolutely everywhere but the weather had other, very wet, ideas.....Will have to head back out on a sunny day!

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Post work paddle in SOTs from fell foot with Tori. Lovely catch up after an absolutely manic day with more than 3 times the custom that normally comes through kayak hire at fell foot. Proper day of powerlifting left me pretty tired!

Last minute appointment in Preston for an excercise challenge test to see what really happens to my breathing when I exercise.

Couldn't have been timed better, this time last year I was doing the ITERA and I don't think it is a coincidence that once again, breathing was an issue this week.

At the start of June when they filmed my vocal chords, they saw a very small bit of VCD at rest. This time when they put the camera in, they were met by something entirely different and much worse. Massive supraglottic constriction to ~50% of the normal airway size before I've even started exercising . Well, that might start to explain something.

At moderate exercise (where I was rating no breathing difficulty on a scale of non-extreme) my airway actually opened, however once the intensity increased it constricted again and my vocal chords also started to move over my airway as I breathed in (instead of getting out of the way).

During recovery they asked me to take a deep breath and another final problem was revealed, my vocal chords closed entirely over my airway as I inhaled.....

So, this correlates exactly with all of the symptoms I ever get, explains why fits and bursts of effort in an AR or during interval sessions might cause me trouble and why running a very long way at barely any intensity does not. Also why I often have coughing fits for hours after racing.

Next step is apparently speech therapy to try and control it. I also wonder if there is an allergy type trigger linked to this time of year as it was just so different to June and the exact time of my worst issues last year...

Ulverston 10K. Bearing in mind what I'd just whitnessed happen to my airway, I set off conservatively concentrating very much on not going hard enough to go near chaotic breathing. Resulted in a very even paced run, a bit of a chat to someone who beat me whilst 'pacing it for a half marathon' and a PB by around 3:30.

Not a bad evenings work and Lizzie won the womens race and a new paramo jacket! Back to Lizzie and Robs for a good catch up after :-)

Monday paddle in the carrot. VERY blustery on the way down the lake. As forecast the wind dropped by the time we turned but still enough for a bit of an easy ride back with some waves to ride :-)

Out on Windermere with Steph, Ferry Nab to Fell Foot, stop off for some refuelling, bumped into Martin and family, then back up the lake. Lovely day, Windermere the busiest I've ever been out on it!

Ride out to Tebay with Wil, Steve and Hugh, then back solo as the others continued on what turned out to be a bit of a mission!

Ride out to Grizedale (with bag of kit) to meet WIl and Mike, kept it steady on the climbs but generally ok and a good spin out.

Riding the skills compensator around grizedale. Lived up to its name, took some QOM downhill sections never having ridden them before.... Might need some more padding before I go much faster, but the bike is more than capable!

Coffin route with WIl, legs feeling surprisingly ok....kept it short and sweet