TMI?

As I've said before, my plan to not tell the world and his wife about the running was doomed from the start. So lots and lots of people (relatively) ask how it's going. So I tell them. 'Awful', 'Really hard', 'Not great' are phrases that have come up quite a lot. And of course this requires explanation as the natural conclusion of such whines is that I'm chubby and unfit; of course it's hard. Whilst this is true, it's not the full story. I would whine much less if I could breathe as well as your average unfit lardass.

It's like this: ashtma makes all the tiny expandable pockets in your lungs less expandy. They get all uptight; smaller. Need more air? Screw you, we're staying tight and you know what, we may even get smaller. Then the lungs handily throw in some phlegm. This gets tiring when you are breathing more.

So when people ask me how the running is going, I try to convey some sense of this and I see that people don't really know what to say. It's probably too much information but I am not one for bland answers for the sake of polite chat. You ask, you shall know. Sporties tend to bring out general exercising mantras, that it will get easier and I will improve etc. Bless them. I appreciate the advice and general supportiveness, and the mantras generally have truth to them. Maybe some day I'll come across an asthmatic sporty, and they will have a specialised mantra just for the wheezies.