Whew
Okay I’m wondering about that whole half marathon plan. I did a five mile outdoor run and I was definitely struggling. The combination of the heat, humidity, surface (gravelly) and weight of my water belt really did me in. I had to stop to walk before the end of it because my heart rate was just going through the roof even when I slowed down a bunch. I grabbed a Gatorade from a place I was walking by and just felt the blood pumping through my legs like I haven’t felt before. Really weird feeling. The kicker on all of this is that I was running to play flag football with some guys here on the island. Smart, right? Anyway, we played a few hours of touch football and now I’m back home, showered and feeling pretty tired. I am going to either not work out tomorrow or just take it light.
So anyway, I think I need to do more outdoor training if I want to do this half marathon. Five miles shouldn’t crush me like that. I know that running on a treadmill in an air conditioned gym is much easier than running outdoors but it still shocked me how badly I was feeling it even just three miles in. I’d gotten used to doing three miles no problem on the treadmill. And I’ve done a number of runs over five miles in the gym. This was bar none the toughest run I’ve done in my memory and there’s just no way I could have done 13.1 miles in the shape I’m in right now. I’ll keep at it and see how it goes. I’m sure I’ll see improvement it’s just a matter of how fast.
On another note, I’ve written on here about my bad sinus problems over the last few years. I get frontal sinus cavity headaches on airplane descents and I just get way more than my fair share of runny noses and congestion. It usually goes through good periods where I have very little congestion and then I’ll hit a bad period for a few weeks where I’m going through tissues like crazy. I’ve finally gotten fed up with it to the point that I booked a doctor visit a few weeks back and he prescribed Nasonex and some other stuff to try to help out. I’ve been doing great ever since I started on the Nasonex. I think the other stuff helped too but the Nasonex has been huge.
I had an appointment today with an ear, nose and throat doctor from a few weeks back because I wanted to actually find out what was wrong with me. Do I have standard allergies? Do I have a chronic sinus infection? Basically, the other doctor is a general practitioner and while he did a good job prescribing me the right stuff to help me get better, I don’t think I would ever get any real answers out of him. So the ENT told me to continue on the Nasonex and a strong decongestant and he also said that I should get a CT scan of my nasal passages. So I am going to get that done in the next few days hopefully and we’ll be able to try to figure out what’s going on. Also, once I’ve been off of Claritin for two weeks we’re going to do some allergy testing to see if that pops up anything. He said that he doesn’t think it’s an allergy problem but more along the lines of a chronic sinus infection that needs to be treated. Either way, I’m fine with whatever I have to do as long as it fixes the problem. I’m just fed up with it and I look forward to getting more answers.
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I’m not sure what I have, but for about the past 2 years I have what seems to be chronic phleghm in my throat. It seems like I always need to clear my throat and usually do spit out a thick mucus. It’s really annoying because it seems like whenever I eat or drink it aggravates the phlegm even more to the point where I sometimes have to throw up. The phleghm build up gets so thick in my throat that it practically gags me. Very frustrating. Mom thinks it might be sinuses. It’s getting progressively worse very slowly so I think I’m gonna check out the doctor soon.
I ran competitively for a long time and I know how you feel. Throwing up believe it or not is fairly common among people who are pushing themselves hard to run.
As far as sinus problems, do you smoke? That can cause this when you run.
A half marathon is a good run. I did 10k in around 29min and a half marathon was still a big chore for me to finish. I suggest step building to help with endurance. Go to the closest stadium and run the steps till you cant walk for 4 days, then rest for 2, and repeat. In a few weeks you will see a big difference in your running endurace on flat streches
good luck
I don’t smoke — never even taken a single puff of a cigarette.
Not sure where I can do the step stuff around here but I’ll see if I can find a place.
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I am a huge believer in natural cures, and in not jumping to meds or surgery too quickly.
However I must say that I have heard that are new options, post-ct scan (it used to be that sinus surgery was the only option. but now there are less invasive choices like balloon sinuplasty).
That’s my two cents. Take care and good luck.
–Erin G