Couch to 5k - Week 2, Session 2: I hate cold weather!

This session was very hard for me.  I attribute that to knee pain and the damned cold weather! I couldn't catch my breath! It felt like I was gasping for air again and my lungs just would not hold enough air!  When this happens and the next day I get this pain in my upper chest and if I take in deep breaths it makes my tongue like tingle. It's weird I wish I knew what it was.  The insides of my knees are killing me during and after. I've already told you have lots of problems with my knees popping out of socket, this pain is similar to the pain I have after an episode.  From where the pain is it makes me feel like my legs is shaped like a parentheses " ) ( ".  With the excess thigh and calf fat that really what they look like. I really should go to a doctor but I just don't have enough time off right now.  Maybe after I hit my 90 days. I don't want this to stop me from exercising. There were some positives. My side only hurt once and that was on the second to last jog. My legs only burned in the 3rd and 4th jogs so that was good. It wasn't overly hard to complete this session, despite the cold. I think had it been warm i would have thoroughly enjoyed it, even with the pain.  Today my legs and my lower back are killing me.  Neecee told me that as I settled into this exercise routine my body would start bucking and uncovering pains or issues I may not have known of. Seems she is definitely right! I had 7,952 steps in yesterday.

I'm proud of you, Chris. :) Good job

Thanks!  I'm trying! lol  One other thing I hate about the cold is my nose gets all wacky. I try to control my breathing by using my nose to either inhale or exhale depending on what works better.  Well when I try to breathe in while it's cold my nose seems to just shut off and when I try to exhale I blow snot bubbles!  Ugh! I'm going to my sisters next time it's cold to use her treadmill!

good job - it sounds like you're really powering through your plan.  seriously though - the sooner you get to the shoe place, the better! a lot of your pains  (legs and back) could be helped by having the appropriate support.

I am so proud of you, Bro!!! WTG... The knee thing is pretty scary. Slow down at least, don't stop. I do hope you get some advice about your shoes.  It is important to find the best ones for you. I liked the Asics, made for heavier people.  Nikes tend to be for bird bone people. (hold the hater mail, please!) As id you don't already look like a total dork out there with your parenthesis limping leg action and bulgy eyeballs as you gasp for breath, try a scarf around your mouth.  Or a thin face mask to help warm the air some. Did you get the guafnasin (mucinex) yet?  that thins the mucus to help a bit with this crap. You da man, though, for real.

Hey girls, thanks for all your support and help!  I ended up skipping this saturday's session but I did get some power walking in while looking at new trucks.  I ended up getting abou 2000 aerobic steps in from that so that helped a bit. My knees are hurting very badly now and they are constantly popping. The popping isn't painful but the feeling of the bones seperating from the tendons and cartilage in my knees is unnerving. I've decided to tone down my program until I can see a doctor. There's no sense in blowing out my knees. That would be a step towards the worse.  I will try to continue walking and plan to do a much more brisk walk for 30 minutes or so until the doc clears me to run again.  I rested this weekend and my knees do feel better tonight.  Hopefully there's nothing wrong and the pain and popping is just from unuse.

Oh I am glad to hear that - got to be careful of pain. It is hard to know when to work thru it and when to take it easy.  i think you do need to take a break. Check out this article: SAN FRANCISCO -- Vocal cord dysfunction is gaining increasing recognition as a fairly common condition that is often misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated as asthma.

In several presentations at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, physicians described their experience with diagnosing vocal cord dysfunction, which is caused by involuntary episodes of inappropriate adduction in the anterior two-thirds of the vocal cords.

Diagnosing these patients is valuable, since they often respond to therapy that teaches them to relax their vocal cords, the investigators said.

Dr. Edward J. Diamond said that the disorder has been described for years in its extreme form, which is typically seen in women who show up in emergency rooms with panic attacks and acute breathing difficulties. "Those types of patients do exist, but they're only a tiny part of the spectrum," he said.

More common are people who develop dyspnea during exercise and are mistakenly treated for asthma. Vocal cord dysfunction sometimes accompanies asthma, but it is more often independent of the condition, Dr. Diamond emphasized.

oh wow, I've never heard of that before.  I think I'll ask my doctor about it when I go next. I'll do some more of my own research as well. Thanks for the info! Gah, I'm all broken!  My lungs or maybe my vocal cords, my knees, and now my lower left back and down my left thigh is hurting too! lol falling apart!  Damn this fat!