sick girl.

Giving my running much thought.

I figured out with ALL my sickness, allergies, and lingering chest congestion, I have been averaging on the real, about 20 miles a week, with a few and far between 30 mile averages.

No where near the mileage per week that I should be at.

I was shooting for at least 30 mile per week averages with at least one run of at least 9 miles per week. I have been slacking as of late due to the "SICKNESS" that I have been as of yet, unable to shake. I average about 4-5 days a week of running, down from my 6 days running. I believe it is/was my inability to let my body fully rest to recover from this phantom sickness. This weekend, I took it off. I rested from Friday morning to Monday evening. No run, not much activity, and lots of laying down time with a humidifier and nyquil. 4 straight days of much needed rest to my body.

Yesterday, I got up at 5:30 am. and felt the need to run.

I drank a cup of tap water and put on my gear.

Left a note for my Men as to where I was going, jumped in the ride and headed out to my park running spot.

I felt relaxed and ready to go.

5 miles was a struggle. My breathing again is the issue.

I hate to say it, but I think I may have a slight case of asthma.

Im going to book an appoitment and check.

Pray for me.

When I run inside, I am fine. Slight catch in the breathing, but no tightness. Outside, I can feel my lungs loose and doing their job in the beginning, in the end, I feel the tightness creep in and no matter how I try to loosen my lungs with deep, slow breathes, there is something there that I cannot shake. I have read up on asthma being induced by allergies, and some cases of exercise induced asthma. Maybe Im just being paranoid, I sure hope so. However, it seems that since I has pneumonia last year, my lungs have never been quite the same.

I still run, however. I have never reached a point where I feel that I absolutely cannot breathe, but I do have that tightness in my chest that scares me and only relaxes when I stop and continues for a while after my run.

Maybe my ass is just running too fast. lol.

Anywho..

Mon: Work/rest.
Tues: 6 AM - 5.01 miles/8:48 min/mil. 44:13.
5:20 - 4.02 miles/8:26 min/mil. 33:59.
= 9.03 miles.

Peace and BLESSINGS...