Training Log Archive: fluceluce

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 :-)