I hope.

My plan is to get back on the tread­mill tonight. The last few weeks have been hard on my run­ning. Well, actu­ally, it’s been fur­ther back than a few weeks. I guess I’d have to say it’s been about a month and a half since I really had a stretch of good runs. First, I got sick, and I couldn’t run for about three weeks. Then, I real­ized that maybe my colds were some­thing more than just a cold. After talk­ing to my doc­tor, I did some pul­monary test­ing, and I have been diag­nosed with mild asthma. I’ve been tak­ing an inhaler this week, and I’m hop­ing that will ward off another cold and cough­ing episodes like the ones I had in through almost all of November.

I had pretty much com­pleted the Couch to 5K plan, but I think I’m going to jump back into that. From what I could tell before, it’s much eas­ier to run when you have a plan and it’s not just an arbi­trary dis­tance or time. I’m also hop­ing to be able to move past the plateau where I stalled last time. I’m hop­ing that this asthma med­i­cine will also help me while run­ning. I had noticed that when I was run­ning, I was never phys­i­cally tired enough to need to stop, but I was often so out of breath that I couldn’t keep going. I didn’t feel like I could get a good deep breath in. It was quite frustrating.