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May 23
- 1h 02m 03s
- 14.11 miles
- 13.64 Mi/hr
Trainer ride. Reno up north had huge wildfires and the wind blew down the smoke, and it seems to set off the dizziness even more (plus the smoke part). Two people who trained outside had bad experiences. Decided to take it inside and do 20 mins warmup, high gear for 4 hill climbs for 3 minutes each followed by an easy 3 minutes each, then cooldown to round up the hour.
- 56m
May 22
So I wrote about the speed discrepancy on the TrainingPeaks website and they said to submit a ticket so I did. It turns out Garmin uses moving time and TP uses total time. Since I hadn't really done traffic lights until now I hadn't noticed. My take is that even though you "rest," all the stopping and going slows you down, so that at the end of the day it's a wash. There was also a longish traffic light and my legs felt like lead when I restarted and it would have been better not to have to stop at all so I think that slowed me down a bit for a few seconds. Ah, well.
Dizziness flareup still here, not sure I can run yet, I will ask my coach for bike workout replacements I can do until I can run again.
May 21
- 1h 10m 03s
- 15.34 miles
- 13.14 Mi/hr
Ok, I may be beginning to see why there's no progress. Correct me if I'm wrong but 12 MPH is 12 miles in 1 hour at 5 minutes per mile so 10 minutes 2 more miles so in 1:10 that's 14 miles... so I can't have a speed of 11.9 MPH if I biked 15.34 miles in 1:10. I think the Garmin is right at 13.1 MPH which is about 4.58 minutes per mile, so 70 minutes... about 15.3 miles. No wonder, TrainingPeaks is making me slower, and by a whole MPH!! That's a HUGE difference!! Off to their Facebook to politely rant :)
I woke up feeling SO much better from the dizziness. Not at the base 24/7 dizziness level I always have but just slightly worse and it seems this flare up is on the way out. Got me thinking what happens if I flare up during IMTX, and I decided I was going to go to the medical tent, ask if I could cause irreparable damage by continuing, and just swim bike and run until I faint or finish, because if I can't irreparable damage myself and I meet the cutoffs I'm crossing that finish line, dizziness or no dizziness.
Felt so good to work out again that I had trouble keeping it in zone 2, and on the way back there was just too much uphill and headwinds of 15 MPH (to be fair I had a taiwind of 20 MPH on the way out and going down, and then 15 headwind on the way back going up).
Hopefully the flare up is gone by Wednesday morning and I can get back to business.
I did this same route on April 2010 at 8.9 MPH. On a mountain bike with no clipless or training, but still.
- 1h 13m
I started the morning still feeling very dizzy. During the warmup lap I tried to run and knew I would not have made it through a run workout today. After the strength session felt a bit better as if it was flushing out the dizziness a bit. Ate and slept the rest of the day.
May 20
- 44m 15s
- 1500.00 meters
- 02m 57s /100 meters
- 31m 43s
- 2.50 miles
- 12m 41s /Mi
I was dizzy throughout the day. Drank a Powerade prior to running, ate, had a Gu after two miles. Not a good sign when people are blurry five minutes into your warmup. As I was leaving the gym I was berating myself for bailing on a workout as I was having trouble focusing onto the posters around the walls.
What really made me stop was that as I tried to run harder for the intervas, my HR zone kept dropping. The higher my RPE, the more it dropped. I decided to throw in the towel when I was on a "sprint" and it dropped into zone 1, as there's a correlation between drop in blood pressure and fainting.
If it wasn't for the whole "we've done every test we can and you've seen every doctor you can, go home and live with it" and $2000+ in co-pays schpiel, I'd schedule an appointment with a doctor.
I seem to have these flareups once every few months, I've had them before but I don't remember the last time, so I guess just do what I can until it goes away. Do wish it'd go away, though, training's fun when I'm not dizzy. Still having trouble focusing over half an hour after I stopped running. Had an EKG and everything and apparently heart's strong but why chance it, I guess I'll call it a week and see what tomorrow morning brings.
May 19
- 2h 00m 09s
- 25.03 miles
- 12.50 Mi/hr
Got REALLY woozy during the last four miles to the point I thought I was going to have to stop. And during RAGE I was fine the four hours. Since I haven't really found a way to control the dizziness when it comes I'm just going to have to be happy with the good and stop if I need to with the bad ones. It's been acting up these past few days which is usually an indication that I'm coming down with a cold but I don't feel sick.
- 55m
May 18
- 2h 09m 58s
- 25.49 miles
- 11.77 Mi/hr
Headwind from hell on the way back. I started back at 6p and Weather Underground has a sudden drop in wind from 14 MPH to 0... 0, at that time. Yeah, right. So we'll call it 14 MPH headwinds with 19 MPH gusts. I actually thought I was gonna have to borrow a cell phone and call mom to pick me up. That was not fun. Then I was going to go until the sun set and call home, but I was able to make it back in time. Almost 13 MPH on the way there, if the average is 11.9 that means about 11 MPH on the way back. First workout ever that I felt I was going to have to bail in.
Was very out-of-breath throughout the whole thing.
- 26m 39s
- 2.02 miles
- 13m 11s /Mi
BRICK. Wow, 17 minutes from the time I got in to the car to the time I started running. Will work on running quicker. But that headwind on the way back just did a number on me, I was happy just to be shuffling. Actually felt great and strong, just tired :) Went by very quickly.
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Stupid goggles kept filling with water so I just started the whole workout over.
Drills.
WHOOOOOO I was able to run today!!! And it felt so good :) Still dizzy, I would say 60%, 20% being normal, 80% being last week, and 100% being bed-bound. I'm wearing my glasses. I never use them and I only have sporadic flare-ups. The glasses don't keep it from happening and don't make it go away but they help the symptoms somewhat (although I was reading this morning and the words just went full on blurry even with the glasses on and I couldn't read even after taking the glasses off). But they make me FEEL a little bit less queasy. I've been stumbling a bit with the dizziness around the house and I'm sure I wasn't running straight, but I managed not to run into somebody :)
Made an appointment for another eye test tomorrow and contacted my doctor's office to get a referral to the other balance center in town, The Balance Center. The one I went to when I was going through the testing was the Werner Center and they were no help. Waiting for word back whether the doctor has to see me or will sign off on the referral. If she won't give it without seeing I have an appointment two weeks from tomorrow with her. Darn vacations. They should not have vacations during my flare-ups :)
I took some dramamine and some other stuff that's recommended for motion sickness (can't remember the name of the other one, but it's a natural product), and that helped along with the glasses, enough to allow me to run. I think I can make it through the easy six miles tomorrow.
I started the run and I KNEW I was going to finish. Sometimes I just get that feeling that I know I'm going to be running, the same feeling that first time I ran thirty minutes straight, where you just throw your head back and laugh you're so happy. Sometimes you KNOW you will run.
What's funny is that there's this guy at a weight maching and I just had a feeling he was Blurry Guy from Sunday lol I almost asked him, are you Blurry Guy? ha
My hamstrings hurt alot, they just rotate, quads, hamstrings, butt. And I've been having this pain on the lower right corner of my back during the last couple of runs, no idea what that's from, but I can get through it and it wasn't the whole run.
So glad to be able to run and if I can't I know I can take it to the AMT elliptical.
Had a bike scheduled for tomorrow but the MINIMUM winds are 17 MPH upwards of 30 MPH+. Hell to the no. And Sunday the HIGH winds are 5 MPH. So doing the six mile easy run tomorrow and then a pool swim. Have a tri next week with open water so I think I won't do open water this week with the dizziness and all and just stay in the pool. Then Sunday I can do my 25 miles.
I just feel so appreciative when I can work out, the dizziness has given me through the past year and a half a new appreciation of being able to move (along with the weight loss) and that's what I take from it. Everything we go through is there to either teach us something, make us appreciate something, alert us of something. The dizziness teaches me the importance to enjoy the good when you can and appreciate how lucky I am to be able to do whatever I want physically most of the time. Hopefully the flareup is on the way out, it's been six days.
Oh, and I did 11:09mm average. Hell to the yes :) Decent run.