Back after 3 weeks resting hip tendonitis & now need my inhaler!

[58soon]

I felt like if I didn't get out and run today, I might never get back into it. It's been 3 long weeks, and my hip pain has almost (but not quite) disappeared. So a trepidatious 2 laps of Wandsworth Park (2.5k) this afternoon. Really I should now be running my 8k of the Magic Plan, but hey - things happen!

Hip seems OK, and I'll find out for sure when I wake up tomorrow. But goodness, how the weather's changed over the past 3 weeks! Next thing to deal with is my wheezy tight chest. The cold air seems to have really set my asthma off. Does anyone run with a Ventolin inhaler to help relieve the wheeziness? Or have I just lost my fitness?

10k feels like such a long way off now!

[Beachcomber66 Graduate10]

I always take my peak flow before setting off, and if the reading is low I take ventolin followed by my clenil modulite. I sometimes carry the ventolin but have only needed it mid run once. Not for everyone I know, but I sometimes wear a thin buff over my mouth when it is getting nippy.

[58soon Graduate10 in reply to Beachcomber66]

Thanks Beachcomber66. That's a really good idea - a thin buff over the mouth. That should stop the cold air being quite so cold in my lungs. Puff!!