So Hong Kong....I am glad the coach did not put anything more ambitious in the program than
one run – running in HK was almost impossible, I have never been so
hot....ever....the temp ranged from 32-40 and the humidity was between 85-99%
(99% was the last night if you left the safety of aircon it just looked like you
had showered in your clothes!), when I went running it was somewhere in
the low 30s but the humidity was in the low 90s...I died after about 30mins (I
know it was planned for 45- no chance!)..also there was nowhere nice to run...I
was stuck with the harbour front as apart from that it was crowded
streets...Kowloon is not big!
Next week if gets more fun though! Tuesday is an early
start to get to Olympics for the mens tri in Hyde Park and then we are heading up to Scotland to see my new niece (she was born two weeks
ago!)... but I
plan to take kit for S, B &R as my brother lives on the edge of a Loch so I
might try and get in a swim (possibly to Bute it is the other side of the Loch!)
but certainly will get a bike in....however training might need to be a little more
flexi than set out on the program...frustrating but life gets in the way sometimes!!
On another note something rather
interesting....over the past six month I have struggled with weight gain/fat
deposition and I have been bemused as to why this is... I was at a Psoriatic Arthritis
conference in Stockholm a few weeks back and there was a talk around Iatrogenic
Cushinoid Syndrome in people who use steroids in the chronic setting, the
symptoms are characteristically central obesity, a “moon” face, damage to the
collagen structure leading to thining of skin and development of striae, high
blood pressure and dyslipidamia can also be symptomatic. This is more common
with the more potent inhaled steroids (e.g. fluticasone – in flixonase and
seretide)...On the flight back I had a ponder about it as previously I developed
cushinoid symptoms when on prednisolone I worked out that I was on 600mcg of
fluticasone per day (100mcg from seretide and 400mcg from flixonase) for my asthma
and alergies...this is a high dose (equivalent to 1200mcg of beclamethasone) and
doses of over 500mcg/day are known to impact adrenal function. So I have started
to withdraw the flixonase and there seems to be a change my weight has dropped
for around 93.5kgs to 91.7kgs in 14 days and I am starting to loose the moon
face appearance...I may not be back to my normal shape for Ireland but maybe
before next year!
I will pop the trace from the HK run up later - another in my series of runs around big cities!
Later
I.
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