This weeks total is supposed to be near 16 hours of exercise. Well winter still has a grip on the Northwest and that makes it hard for a good long outdoor ride. Still swimming 3-4 miles per week.
On last monday I did an hour swim, hour bike, and hour run back to back. Felt okay but a wierd fatigue came over me. On Tueday I could only get an hour bike in because that fatigue came over me again. I took Wednesday off. On Thursday I was to run 14 miles. I have ran 10-12 miles each of the last 5 Thursdays. During my run I became more and more fatigued and about mile 8 I had to stop and walk and eventually lie down. I felt horrible. Every muscle in my body was weak. Even my tongue and jaw muscles. I had to call my daughter to come and pick me up. It took me about 4 hours to shake it off. Being in the medical profession I started to worry about stuff like Multiple sclerosis, Heart attack, mini-stroke, encephalitis, lead toxicity....but then I remembered that rare stuff is really rare, and common stuff is really common.
I had started Crestor a cholesterol medication a week earlier. I have a genetically high level of bad cholesterol and exercise does not help it so I started the statin drug called crestor. After an internet search, I found that middle aged atheletes who use statin drugs have a 200% increase in muscle fatigue and lactic acid build up. Needless to say.....I am going off the crestor!!!!!!!!
More next week.
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