Week 7+ Feels Like Week 1

My body must really be hating me right now because when I've woken up every day this week I feel like I've been hit by a Mack truck. Sunday night I slept for almost 10 hours, Tuesday I slept for another 11, and this morning it took every bit of willpower for me to get out of bed before 9:00am. I'm going to blame some of this on bad diet on my part again (I keep forgetting to eat, go figure) and the fact that allergy season is now in full swing.

Since I slept so damn late yesterday and couldn't fit in my workout before work I had to shift plyo to today (anyone else notice the recurring theme here?). I got up early enough to workout, but today for the first time since starting P90X I had to contend with my asthma. Thankfully I don't have full blown, wheezing asthma like some people. I have what I consider to be a mild case of exercise induced asthma. 99% of the time it doesn't bother me, and even when it does I avoid my inhaler like the plague. I feel like using it is like admitting defeat, so I only use it when things get really bad. Well, today was that bad, and I had to hit the inhaler like a crack pipe just 15 minutes into the plyo workout.

For the rest of the workout I was feeling pretty run down, and I was actually worried that I was going to have to stop before finishing. Since there was no way that was going to happen I kept pushing to the point where I thought I was going to pass out. Yes, I can hear everybody already, "you shouldn't do that, be careful, don't kill yourself," etc., etc. I have yet to let Tony defeat me, so I'm not going to quit unless I'm passed out on the floor. The positive side is that I made it through the workout in one piece, and after finishing I was feeling pretty good. The bad side was that for 60 minutes today I felt like my chest was going to explode. I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

My allergies were probably the main culprit, and they are just flat out kicking my ass this week. I had my deviated septum fixed last year (and no, it wasn't the "I'm getting my deviated septum fixed" cover for a nose job - it's still as crooked as Lombard Street), and this is my first real allergy season with it being corrected. Part of the surgery was to help reduce my overall reaction to allergens, but because my sinus reaction is more minimal I don't realize that my allergies are really bothering me. I'm one of the poor suckers that's allergic to everything that sheds or pollinates, and allergies often leave me with an overall run down, wanting to die kind of feeling. My barometer for allergies used to be my nose - it would start running like Niagara Falls when things were bad. Unfortunately my barometer is now broken, and I don't seem to realize how bad off I am until it's too late.

So, once you factor in the exercise induced asthma and allergies this week has felt like week 1 all over again. I'm not as sore, but I sure as hell as just as tired.
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