Workout: 5.078 miles on the treadmille
Time: 50:00
Pace: 9:50 (average)
incline: 2%
Weight: 125.4
This was a pretty sketchy situation. I still have a chest cold and can almost always feel a catch in my chest when I'm breathing and am still coughing a lot trying to expel whatever is in there. I don't want to fall too far behind on my training and since I was off all of last week except Monday, I wanted to try to run today. I knew it would sketchy and I knew I'd likely have to jump off a million times to cough up a lung.
The first part was much better than I anticipated. I was really mentally gutting through it - I wanted to stop many times, but told myself I had to wait until after 7 songs... at that point I'd be more than halfway done & I could turn on the fan. Somehow I found myself off at 20:00 - not intentionally, I think my body just had had enough and needed to cough. At that point I was little concerned because not only did I cough and hack and cough, but I couldn't catch my breath. My lungs were aching and I felt a little like how I imagine someone with asthma feels.
I got through the 7th song and allowed myself a full minute to catch my breath, which was terribly difficult. At that point I gave myself permission to hop off after every song to try to catch my breath a little bit. It was tough. It is 3 hours later and I can still feel it in my lungs.
I really wanted to quit at around 3 miles and call it good, but I just couldn't mentally do it.
Other than my lungs, I felt great... hoping that I am feeling better than this by Wednesday.
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