I have now learnt enough to get medical help promptly. Dr R has been telling me over the many many years that properly prescribed medication is your friend, because it brings about comfort and healing - this to a person whom is extremely resistant to any form of medication, other than getting sufficient sleep, popping Vitamin C and drinking loads of water. The recent (and still in its tail end) 3-week bout of running nose and sore throat could have been despatched promptly had I taken medication. The bloody running nose has, during the last week, turned into what I believe is an inflammation of my sinus. All of this during my final buildup to SCSM 2009 so it was very irritating that I hardly did any running during and for the build-up. But I think I am almost recovered and I began running again last night.
The 2009 season is over. It is off-season for myself now and I want to do a lot of base building to retch-up the endurance and body. Nisa and I have decided to graduate from our 10k into something more.
Last night's run was deliberate. I wanted to, knew I could even - run much faster but I went slow in order to maintain my heart rate at the "easy" zone. I guess when the distances increases, I will not even need to feel I have to slow down - the distance will just wear my endurance down and speed will fall. Alot of LSD await me this off season.
And I verified a recent discovery made on a forum thread as well. Someone had told via a thread that his HRM had gone crazy in the middle of a run. Exactly the same thing had happened to me because on a recent run, my max HR jumped to the crazy 220s!! Seems certain technical fabrics in the running gear will interfere with the signals of the HRM and yes, my KOTR jersey did. I had worn it the last time and again last night - same crazy number popped up until I took off my running top.
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