Etikettarkiv: pneumonia

5K Short Run

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So after 3 months cold that got over to pneumonia. Got better. Ran 5 times on my vacation. Even if it was tough it was nice being back running. But when I got back home I ran into another severe cold that made me cough for some weeks.

Yesterday I was able to sing through the whole choir rehearsal, now it was time to head out on my first run since February 18th.

So this is reality

This really disturbs me, before I ran into a cold in November I was down to 61 kg and I am sure that I would have gone under 60 kg by the end of year 2017 if I would have been able to continue running and also run the last ultra race in December.

So this year it is going to be about loosing a lot of weight, main goal is to finish those two laps at Kullamannen in November so it is going to be a tough year.

In the beginning of this run it felt good, not so breathless, sun was out and blue sky, I looked at my watch and saw that the pace was 5.25 min/k but knew that that wouldn’t last, had to slow down.

When I was in Thailand during my vacation I was forcing myself to run 2K and then I had to walk and then the last two runs I was forcing myself to walk a short distance and then run til I get back to the hotel, got up to 4K.

Had decided to head out on a 5K run, I was not sure how it would go but I was going to try to run as much as possible. Decided that I would run longer than 2K if I had to stop. Today I ran 2.8K before I had to stop and walk. It was not fun at all at the end, really heavy legs and it felt like I had a ton on my chest, got very breathless but was proud of myself.

Decided that I would walk 500 m before I had to get back running again. Had to catch my breath. Started running again and got to about 4K when I walked a much shorter distance, decided to force myself to run all the way through the cemetary and made it and then it was a hill on a bike path which I walked up on and then ran all the way nome.

Those 5K felt like I had run so much longer, like running intervals but it felt good putting on those running shoes again.

This week I am going back to the gym, ached in my knees and feel sore in my lower back, have not been at the gym since beginning of November and need to exercise my back and core but also the rest of my body and then I plan to run a 5K run this weekend.

I am two weeks ahead of schedule, last Spring I ran into a longer cold, 5 weeks, starting end of November and now I have started 2 weeks before I got back on track last year so maybe I will not be so breathless in a couple of weeks and can start running shorter runs in the woods shortly.

Getting back from pneumonia is no game, I just have to make up my mind to not give up, just keep going but I have to get up to 30K around beginning of Summer if I will have a great time running this ultra race in November.

 

Update

Still coughing but it is my hope that I will be cough free next week.

Too long with any exercise.

Have signed up to Hallandsultran in June which is ? but the big goal is getting ready for Double Death in November when I am going to finish those two laps.

I have started to get back pain so the gym is also something that I need to get back to.

I keep my fingers crossed that I will fine next week so I can head out on my first run, have not done any exercising since Nov 8th, that is the reality so heavy and pneumonia will be a challenge but I am a fighter. It will be a different year for sure.

Update

Yesterday I got an envelope from my doctor with the result of the tests that I did when I found out I had pneumonia.

I got the following result

Best Gabriella
The airway samples taken here were all normal

I got an OK to go on vacation and can start running when I am cough free and feels cold free again. It will be tough but I will make it.

So hopefully I will be back bloging again soon

Update

Here it has been silent for a while.

I thought I would share with you what is going on.

Right now I am taking time out from training.

What happened was that after the Double Death race beginning of November I ran into a cold that turned out to be a LONG one.

I got better and better but between Christmas and New Year’s the cough got worse and felt very different, Cocillana did not help (very powerful cough medicine).

I went to the doctor and found out I had pneumonia.

So when I will get an OK to go back to training I will start my weight journey and prepare myself for Double Death in November.

I will share this journey with you here.

Right now I am just walking down to the train station, walking from the train station to work, have to take the elevator up instead of walking 4 floors at work. I feel much better after 5 days antibiotics cure and am waiting to get back to the doctor to see where I stand.