About 14 months ago I had a lung function fev1 of 2.6 or approx 70% and was relatively healthy and feeling good about the future.
Well from that point onwards my health dropped and its stayed down ever since.
After my last result of 2.6 I became ill and lung function fell to 1.7 fev1 or 45% lung function and I for the first time ever last year I was put on oxygen because I couldn't breathe and my circulation and stats just dropped and wouldn't come back up. Despite 3 trips into hospital, plenty of Ivs Physio, drugs, and some exercise I have never got my lung function to go above 2.1fev1 and changing drugs routines or whatever made no difference whatsoever.
Well last December I was in hospital and on Ivs over Christmas and yet my results still didn't improve above 2.1fev1 and doctors told me I'd been growing something new but I never did find the name out but that only Ivs and promising could control it. I now know it's called achromabacter at least I think that's how you spell it
So when I finished Ivs on first week of January and the results still didn't go above 2.1 fev1 I decided I'd become too pissed off within myself and decided to turn my anger and upset into change
And I also had a goal in mind which I'd applied for in August last year and it's something I felt hugely strong about and wanted to try and achieve
I applied to do the London Surrey 100 bike ride.
Well with the ballot results in mind and with my built up anger and upset building up I decided giving up was not an option so I decided to clean my act up and push and see if I could find that lost lung function and discover a new fitness within me
So my road bike is set up and ready to go and I have set it up on my turbo trainer and I pedalled and pedalled a lot
Well actually to begin with I just did half hour here half hour there.
And then I spurred on so after the last three weeks I've been pushing on
With hospital in mind last Friday I have been training on my bike like mad,
pedal, nebs, eat, sleep repeat
In the days leading up to the hospital appointment I done 40 miles on my bike and every neb I could do I did and every cycle of AD possible I moved more phlegm
And this attitude to push on is only growing bigger after Friday's results
You see my fev1 went up to 2.2, now the haters and doubter may say well that's not a big increase and that's true but it's an increase none the less and its 2.2 I haven't seen in over year and knowing that I managed to improve it has only made me feel that I can push it up even more and my overall capacity has increased by over half a litre
So I showed myself that it can be done, despite losing lung function over the last 2 years and not seeing an increase in over 12 months I have turned the odds around and pushed my lung function up and I feel better than ever
Knowing that I could push my results up I came straight home and got on my bike again and did another ten miles
Feeling on top of the world I then got a phone call to say I got the place I so desperately wanted in the londonsurrey100 bike ride
For those of you who don't know the londonsurrey100 is a bike ride on closed roads in and around London and covers over 100 miles. It also has to be completed within nine hours
That's an average on 11 miles per hour. Some task I know but I've been training hard and last week I did 52 miles in 5 sessions and. This week alone I've been doing sessions of 12 miles every ride in just over an hour, so far most of my mileage has been on my bike and turbo trainer but I have 171 days or approximately 24 weeks away to train until the big day and as time goes on I will take on more and more road rides but for now to keep warm and safe I'm training indoors on the turbo trainer it's basically the same as being on the road as I can change my resistance to however I need to ride like I'm on flat or in hills no problems the only difference is I don't have wind or rain hitting me in the face which could make me I'll so early into my training and ruin my entire plans so I'm pushing my body and my lungs hard but I'm keeping my body safe and warm at the same time
I'm learning a lot and I admit I am scared of what I'm about to do but I love risk and reward and no one ever achieved anything sat on their arse watching others
I will start blogging about my biking adventures soon
Thank you for reading
