Asthma

OK, OK... so I have "Exercise Induced Asthma".
The doctor was very good, asked about symptoms, occasions things had happened, asked about coughing, wheezing, tightness in the chest... everything! I had to say that to my knowledge I haven't been wheezing though!

It seems I have probably always had it, and for the last 2 and a half years have been running through it (to a certain extent!). The coughing fits that occasionally occur after long runs, the chest tightness that sometimes happens after only a few minutes of running, the smell of car fumes that make me feel like I'm suffocating and make me short of breath, the cold air that hurts to breathe in... it all points to asthma!

It seems that very first run I did when I was 11 years old, through the dene with the school that hurt my chest so much I thought I was going to die, the same run that put me off running in the great outdoors for 27 years... was probably asthma! Unbelievable!