3.Try out those energy gels to see if they gave me some extra oooomph after halfway.
You know the saying, 1 out of 3 ain't bad 😂😂😂
Almost from the get go I knew I wouldn't be able to do the distance, the asthma was bad and I was struggling for breath, more of that in a minute. So I had to settle for doing just one 8km loop rather than two and very slowly and so didn't get far enough to need the gels.
On the plus side my new (second hand) Garmin Forerunner 10 for 30 quid off E Bay!!! worked perfectly, keeping me informed of time, pace and distance, beeping at me crossly when it sensed i was going to slowly (most of the time!!) and uploading to Strava at the end.
I have made an appointment to see the asthma nurse and I'm not going to let them fob me off as I think they have done previously. I'm determined to get on top of it as I am hoping to do 2 or 3 half marathons next year and other organised runs in the last part of this year and don't want it to be a lottery as to whether it is a good asthma day or a bad one.
As ever, run happy, run safe.
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Well you know what they say, Chris - "Any Run is better than no run" and anyway, 8k is a very decent run indeed! I think you are right to want to get your asthma control right though, it could make a huge difference. Oh, and I also have a Garmin Forerunner 10 - great little watch, you bagged yourself a bargain there! 🙂
That’s a very respectable (if not impressive!) run Chris, but sorry to hear your asthma is troubling you. I do hope you get a better action plan with your visit to the asthma nurse - and yes, don’t let them fob you off!
I have a Garmin and love it. Mine is only set up to beep at each km, which I rather like. The GPS in Garmin watches is supposed to be very accurate, so no more of those weird, clearly fictional times/distances I used to get with apps!
Well done, Chris - getting an 8k run done when you’re struggling with your asthma is a big achievement. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏃♂️😊❤️ Hope you get some better help at sorting it out.
Glad you enjoyed your new Garmin. I’m still struggling to get my new Forerunner 35 to give me pace in mins per km, as it seems to like to flip to miles or speed randomly! Not sure if that’s just an issue with this particular model, though...
I’ve got it on my iPad, Eileen. From Googling the problem, it seems like a lot of people have had it with Forerunner 35’s, and the fixes I’ve tried so far don’t seem to stay working! So my pace figure on any run could be mins per km, mins per mile or even, I suspect from the values, a speed figure. The data I get at the end on the graph is mins per km, but it’s what I see while running that is random!
Funny thing, mine always showed pace time per km but yesterday on Parkrun I thought the pace on my watch seemed low despite my puffing away. But I ended up getting a PB and pace of the run was better than I was seeing on the watch. I said to Stanley that i think it was showing me speed and not pace . I have checked my settings and it’s definitely on pace. I wonder if it’s a software error. I will delve further and let you know if I find an answer
Hi MD, I connected my watch to the PC and checked Garmin express. I changed pace to speed and back to pace. I synced my watch to pc. I also changed my watch to speed then back to pace. I don’t know which of these actions, if any, sorted it, but I ran today and the watch was back onto pace. I hope you get yours sorted too. 😃
Funny you say that MD as mine does exactly the same - it was in mins per km initially and now tells me mins per mile for no accountable reason! Don’t know what I did to change it 😆
I Googled it and lots of people have the thing insisting on mins per mile, even when everything is set for metric. I’d not spotted anyone else mention it reverting back once fixed, or giving speed, but am convinced mine did that the last 2 runs...
I may be teaching my granny how to suck eggs here, but there are inhalers specifically aimed at people who suffer exercise-induced asmtha like I do. I also have allergy-induced asthma, and am atopic. It's really not fun, especially when you love to keep fit and there's a stigma attached. I've never smoked and when I have to leave a fitness class because I'm having an attack I feel extremely self-conscious. I feel judged to be honest.
I changed to a once a-day Revlar and things have been good, up until this week - I discovered my inhaler was faulty and hadn't been getting my meds for the past week. Now suffering with a pain in my chest, but got it sorted out today, so time will tell.
Hope you get sorted out and you're quite right, don't be fobbed off. I've had issues on and off for the past 10 years, but have never had a proper full diagnosis, everything I now know is from experiencing it, trial and error medications (steroids, anti-biotics and finally asthma inhalers) and getting sick every Sept/Oct and suffering for 9-12 weeks while we went through the usual trial and error routine.
Still a great run! You can change the alerts to change when or if it nags you for too slow, too fast etc. I have mine set to buzz at each mile and only on road runs to say if the pace drops, on trail runs no pace reminders at all. You can also change what it displays.
I hope you get a better solution from the asthma nurse. I'm very lucky that mine is pretty much resolved apart from a bit in winter and high allergy seasons now. When it was bad the red inhaler was invaluable... slow release mild steroid that really did last all day 🤔 Symbicort but not sure what dose...
Good luck with them and yes, don't be fobbed off!! 💪💪👍😁
Well run Chris. You’ve definitely not failed - a run is a run! Hope you sort it soon 🏃😊
I sympathise as I'm struggling too at the moment. i don't have asthma as such, but i'm reactive to one of our dogs and have to use an inhaler before a run. He's really moulting at present - brushing him and hoovering just don't keep on top of it - so my runs are shorter because my chest is congested.
I find the energy gels do give me a boost after about 6k into am longer run. I carry a small amount of fluid with electrolytes too as that really seems to help.
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