1ºMichael Ramos I'm a 49 year old (will be 50 this year), and I am a chronic asthmatic since the age of six (6). My type of asthma is called Childhood Asthma, and my asthma was brittle and dangerous as a child (they weren't sure if I would even live to be a teenager). At 13, I had a growth spurt and in one year had grown taller than both my parents. My doctor said the growth spurt saved me. Basically I grew tall and my lungs grew bigger all very quickly, giving me greater lung capacity. So my asthma improved from my teenage years onwards and became more stable the older I become. They say that usually happens with childhood asthma - if you survive, it tends to get less severe with age, whereas adult-onset asthma tends to get more severe with age. My asthma is still severe enough to require a daily preventer inhaler (the brown/pink one), but while my asthma was too severe as a child to do sports, I can do sports now. As a child running was unsafe for me, but now that I'm older I can run half marathons and longer provided that I practice. My lungs do not like it if I take on a race without practice, but my lungs tend to behave better when they get accustomed to practice. I will never be a fast runner, but I'm happy being the slow runner that I am. My best half marathon time is 2hrs 37 minutes. I did an Ultra once before, in 2021. I came dead last in the race, but came within the required cutoff time to obtain a medal and I was happy about that, especially because ten other people, who were not asthmatic did not finish (DNF). Anyway, DNF is OK, I would have been happy if I tried my best but did not finish. It is better to get a DNF than to be known as a cheater.
2ºTina Pherribo Oxendine I agree that breathing exercises really help. I count steps and practice breathing exercises even when running and walking. I also like do to do breathing exercises with this awesome app called 'Prana Breathe' - this app has helped me more than any other breathing app out there, and I've tried a few. This app has *loads of breathing training including training for singers*. I only do the two types of Buteyko breathing training in this app, because I found that those were the patterns that gave me massive improvement. I should probably also do the ones for singing as Asthma UK says that breathing exercises for singers are great for asthmatics. https://pranabreath.info/...e%20whole%20day
3ºJustin Crockett I am sensitive to caffeine, will get the most monstrous insomnia if I drink even one cup of coffee anytime in the afternoon. I can escape the insomnia if I have one cup of coffee really early in the morning like at 6am. If I have two cups of coffee even at 6am I am doomed, to severe insomnia. I really, really like my sleep so I tend to avoid caffeine altogether unless I need to be up early to travel or drive somewhere. So I normally go months without coffee, or any caffeinated drinks. I absolutely do not use caffeinated pre workout drinks either. So cheers to you and your MASSIVE assumption that I use caffeine - idiot. I don't even know where you got the word caffeine from in anything that I said above about my childhood asthma.