Sudden dry throat/tickle during run

[shrinkingjaz]

Has anyone experienced this before?

I'm into my third week of consolidation runs post C25K (I finished it a year ago but took time off due to injuries) and this morning, I suddenly had an irritating tickle at the back of my throat. Breathing hard made it worse and soon I was coughing and, forgive me if this is too much information, dry heaving a bit. Nose running, tears streaming down my face, I immediately stopped running and walked home. I was still coughing a fair amount.

I have now come home, drunk a lot of water (some of it warm to soothe my throat) and had two cough lozenges. I'm still clearing my throat a fair amount and coughing a little bit but it's getting better.

Any tips or thoughts? I drink a fair amount of water and did drink before going out running this morning. And I felt absolutely fine until about 10 minutes in when my throat started playing up.

[nowster Graduate10]

I've never had that. Are you sure you're not coming down with a cold or similar?

Are you nose-breathing or mouth-breathing mostly?

How's your sense of smell?

[shrinkingjaz in reply to nowster]

On reflection, I think it may be the pollen in the air. Where I live, it's been reported as particularly bad in the last 24 hours. We have also had storms and a huge temperature drop so I think that's all part of it.

Thanks for your concern, though!

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

I hate to say this shrinkingjaz, but if it continues it might be worth getting a Covid test, just in case

[shrinkingjaz in reply to Dexy5]

I am going today. I'm in a part of the world where we luckily have had 13 days of no cases so I'm hoping it's fine, though!