FTP work, Bronchial spasms, Albuterol, Swimming fast to swim faster.. Life is changing.

My mom is moving end of the month, it's a stressor. Arizona is not a bad place for me to visit in winter months but not having her around for those long training weekends when I'm in weekend dad mode will be interesting.

Not to mention the pressure it puts on me to stay in Oregon with zero to few job prospects. Hey, no pressure right?

Training has been going ok though.. About two weeks ago just before Issaquah my chest freaked out and filled up w/junk and was totally inflamed. Visiting Seattle and racing up there relieved everything.

So, I'm punching in really controlled solid training.. 1x a week intervals bike & run plus hitting the swim as hard as *I* can (which is to say, not hard enough by true swimmer standards).

And along those lines I get to the pool yesterday and bang out the best set of 500 repeats in awhile, holding low 1.20's.. good for me. On top of the world and I go for an evening run later.

Shortly after the run I have a glass of wine and I have really serious bronchial spasm. Chest feels really tight and I hit the albuterol..

I got some relief but slept pretty awful last night. Argh. It was pretty bad and I haven't had this kind of thing happen since I was as young as my kids. I've been laying off alcohol almost entirely over the last week or so; perhaps the wine was a mistake.

Today my afternoon run was iffy and the early evening FTP work on the trainer after I dropped off the kids was pretty awful, the perceived effort for normal output was out of whack.

What a roller coaster ! I like to pretend training through the seasonal allergies and the asmtha like symptoms is like training at altitude. It sure feels like it, however this has been trying.

So, I've got one more week of hard training in front of me, then cutting some volume and racing soon thereafter. With the chest so tight I'm wondering if the best thing to do is just work the aerobic base, keep the volume high.. Swimming is really going to hurt unless this lets up.

In the meantime my mother is gone and I'm off weekend dad duty, back to single dude status.

The family life piece is pretty roller coaster-y too, no doubt about that.

All that said, I'd be in a spot of discomfort even if I was alot less training so I figure if I'm gonna suffer it may as well be the full monte.