A Spike Too Soon. after doing something that may have never been done in the history of mankind (somebody check!), i have seemingly gone and done my own self in! after living in the sea level and smuck of LA for a decade, within two years of moving back to high altitude, i have won four high altitude championships. the most recent one, however, brought the spike of my training graph a bit too high. i am paying the price for it.
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Hi, my name is steve ilg. i study Wholistic Fitness and have enjoyed a long, full life blessed by
extreme outdoor sports which i've used as my catalyst for spiritual growth. i have been sponsored since age 16 and will be 45 next month. i am Chairman of the
Board of my local bike racing team; Red Rock Racers. pictured above, i am wearing our new 'kit' for 2007 which i helped design. you like it?
oh, and also i am asthmatic.
what?
who?
where?
how?
while decimating the competition and setting a new Course Record at the World's Highest Nordic Ski Race in Telluride, Colorado on March 10th, i also decimated my lungs. subsequent tests and research unveiled a gnarly fact; i gave myself a condition known to affect cross country skiers, mountaineers, and well, most currently;
America's Outdoor Athlete; me. it's called Cold Triggered Exercise-Induced Asthma. it's not curable. it just kinda
goes away after several months of not aggravating it by three things:
1) exercise
2) exercise in the cold
3) exercise in the high altitude
great. i NEVER do THOSE things...
contemporary Western Medicine states - using its ever sterile language - that i should stay away from those three things i just mentioned. if perchance i DO happen to do any of them, why then, just take hit of Albuterol before and after the activity so my lungs can still function.
wow. Training on an Inhaler! What a 'blast'!
this may come as a shock, however, i ain't buying that line. i TAF i can dance with this condition naturally, using...
DO NOT MISS THIS FANTASTIC ESSAY and COACH's DETERMINED WHOLISTIC DANCE TO DEAL WITH THIS CONDITION...all on today's DL!
