Take your medicine

Well it must be the winter. Once again I'm struggling through another bout with a nasty sinus infection. I'll spare you all the details, but I started on antibiotics 2.5 weeks ago. After a week I started to feel much better again and then about 1 week after starting my course of antibiotics, all they symptoms reappeared. More sleep and allowing the medicine to take it's course cleared this issue up. This past week I had been feeling slightly better each day, but the infection appears to now be messing with my asthma. I ran for the first time in a while the other day and it wasn't pretty. I can't describe what it's like to train and race when my lungs aren't 100%. There is a painful, maybe like sore throat type feeling, that penetrates my lungs. Get the heart rate elevated much and getting air in is similar to trying to exercise with a bag over your head.

To be honest though, I'm not here to complain about my condition. People face much more challenging conditions each day, some life threatening. Hell, many people can't even dream of swimming, biking or running due to disease, illness, or other medical or mental issues. This helps give me perspective when I start to feel down. Here I am trying to drop an hour or so off my Ironman time and qualify for Kona and I can't even run. You know what? It will be ok. Just fine actually. My body wants to race, actually it wants to race fast. But, right now, it wants to rest and it doesn't want it's motor beating too hard. I need to respect this. Take my medicine and listen to my body. It knows what it needs to be successful, I just need to keep the brain out of the equation.

Soon it will be late spring and I'll be in the middle of a large training block and my body, and in turn my asthma, will be just fine. With that, I'm off for a nap. Time to rest and recover.

-T