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Ok, I swore I wasn't going to do this again! I haven't posted in ages. Luckily, I've run some, just not as much as I would like. I'll go back later and add in my other runs for the last year, but for now, I'll write about today. The weather here has been pretty hot (90s) but today was cooler. It was overcast and a little humid. I thought, great time to run. And it was, but, my lungs decided today would be a rough day. And of course, I didn't bring my inhaler. I needed it twice today, so I had to resort to walking slowly and literally calming my breathing down. I can't think too hard about it, because then I realize how far I am from home and my inhaler, and things just get worse.
Luckily, it worked. I was able to get myself under control enough to continue and make it home. I ended up run/walking 5.4 miles, which was fabulous considering the lung issue. I even posted on FB one day that "running would be easier without my asthmatic lungs, well...at least having lungs without asthma." My daughter Sarah thought it was funny and replied with "ba-dum tish!" But, it is a true statement. So often my lungs are what keep me from running longer periods before walking. And one day the humidity is great for my lungs, but today obviously, it wasn't. I just never know what will set it off and rarely can stop it from happening.
That is one of the most scary things about asthma. Most of the time, I have no control over it. If someone walks in front of me with a cigarette, it can set me off. And I now search for things like that. I used to try to hold the coughs in that often turn into an attack, now I just cough. My air is being polluted and my health is being threatened. It is so unfortunate that second hand smoke is worse than what the person smoking gets. How unfair for the rest of us. And smoke is just one trigger for me. Perfume/colognes are horrible too. I think people have no clue how much they put on, or their noses are numb to it. And exhaust from trucks and other vehicles---yuck.
That's why I love running out here in the boonies. I rarely have much of those triggers. The only one is dead animals or a passerby that is smoking with their windows down. (to me that is always funny that they have to do that. If smoking is so great, keep your windows up and enjoy the full force of the smoke!)
Ok, I'll get off my bandwagon and just exclaim how happy I am that I was able to run today. No matter how hard it was. I got it done.
