The doctor is now 99% sure that it is not a myocarditis. I may have had a minor one in february, the blood results due this week, will tell. If that is the case I will have to put my sport activities on halt for another month or so. We'll see. The source of all the trouble seems to be partly stress related. Still I don't think I will enter any competition this season. Maybe I will change my mind.. I'll explain in due time. thats it for now.
Good night!
Benja
ps
Thanks to all of you who were supporting me in this time that was much harder than I'd ever admit!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The moment of truth..
..is hopefully now upon me, as I am heading to the cardiologist in about 5min for the final diagnosis. Wish me luck! See you this afternoon
Benja
Benja
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Well thank you very much..
..you tiny little betablockers. I've been taking these for the past five days, and they really seem to be helping matters. I feel a lot better, but still not really problem free. I went to see another doctor after the bloodtest turned out negative (which was quite positive I think),and according to her my symptoms could match a myocarditis. The devastating truth is, there seems to be no foulproof method to rule it out. So all I can do for now is do nothing. I have another appointment with another cardiologist next tuesday. Till then I will start taking ibuprofen in case I might have the worst.
Wish you all the best and see you soon
Benja
Wish you all the best and see you soon
Benja
Thursday, April 16, 2009
So much for Plan B...
Long no hear from me, and long time no train for me as well^^
I had some heart problems in the last past weeks. These kind of thinks really wake you up. It started with some sort of pressure in the chest region accompanied by shortness of breath. While these two things took place, my heart found it the right time to introduce a new beating rythm. It changes from beating super strong to very weak, from fast to slow pretty much at will. It came from time to time. Mostly when resting or after a workout. Those things really alarm you, I tell ya. So I went to see the doctors. Well it appears that my blood-pressure is a little bit to high at 140/80. So far so good, but is that all that is behind my problems? The doctors still can't outrule a myocarditis. So I still have to wait with any demanding activity. The heart-echo was ok, the rest-EKG as well, at the moment I am waiting for the Results of the longterm EKG and blood-tests. They prescribed me some betablockers, but hey I don't want to swallow pills for ever..
Back to triathlon..
That's for Triathlon so far. If it turns out that everything but the blood-pressure is fine, I still don't think I will really race this season again. Maybe I'll do one at the end of the year for fun..
The most frustrating part is that I haven't trained for eight weeks and I still have no idea what all that is about.
Hope to have better news next time!
Cya
Benja
ps
maybe I should rename the blog..
I had some heart problems in the last past weeks. These kind of thinks really wake you up. It started with some sort of pressure in the chest region accompanied by shortness of breath. While these two things took place, my heart found it the right time to introduce a new beating rythm. It changes from beating super strong to very weak, from fast to slow pretty much at will. It came from time to time. Mostly when resting or after a workout. Those things really alarm you, I tell ya. So I went to see the doctors. Well it appears that my blood-pressure is a little bit to high at 140/80. So far so good, but is that all that is behind my problems? The doctors still can't outrule a myocarditis. So I still have to wait with any demanding activity. The heart-echo was ok, the rest-EKG as well, at the moment I am waiting for the Results of the longterm EKG and blood-tests. They prescribed me some betablockers, but hey I don't want to swallow pills for ever..
Back to triathlon..
That's for Triathlon so far. If it turns out that everything but the blood-pressure is fine, I still don't think I will really race this season again. Maybe I'll do one at the end of the year for fun..
The most frustrating part is that I haven't trained for eight weeks and I still have no idea what all that is about.
Hope to have better news next time!
Cya
Benja
ps
maybe I should rename the blog..
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
So...let's hear about Plan B!
Hi everyone, this will be about me for a change.
To summarize my situation up to this point:
I had a very good december, swimming quite a lot,
and made some good miles on the bike. I had never bin this fit since ..err..ever?!
Than came january, everything started out fine, but it all ended in a desaster.
Week #3 was a rest week from which I have not recovered since. I had shoulder problems after pretty tough swim workout( 15x100m in 1:16, start-time every 1:25).
I even had started running again. Only slow and only 10min at a time. But somehow, I was still to much for the damn knees. Before I could figure out what was really going on, I found myself unable to run/bike nor swim for 3,5 weeks.
The only good thing I thought was that I did not want to be in shape to early.
Well that can I assure you now;)
And after 3 and a half weeks of doing pretty much nothing. The training camp in Mallorca was upon me.
My knees felt better and I was able to train almost normal. The shoulder wasn't making any trouble as well. Although I felt pretty weak on the bike and overall I could finally train again. After taking it easy for the first days, I was able to train pretty good for about 3 days.
Unfortunately my roommate Zeller caught a cold which turned into a bronchitis..well you can imagine the rest..I'll just say having him coughing all over the place did not help matters..
My last day of real training, and it has been to this day, was the february 26th, a really great and first of a life-time 202km ride. Maybe I'll go a little more into depth about this superb experience, but I really wouldn't bet on it;)
Well two days later I have a really bad cold, sniffing, headache and a little bit of fever now and then for 3 days in a row. The fever vanished after I got home. But the cold and the bad feeling did not leave me for another 2 weeks. I tried training, but had to realize everytime that I still wasn't fit enough to train properly.
As you can imagine I am quite devasted right now.
My absolute A-race for this season, the olympic distance in Buschhütten on the 10th of may, is suddenly so close.. I know that there is no way in hell I'll be ready to show my A-game there. This was the one event I really wanted to shine. So what now?
So I am in the need for a Plan B.
At the moment it looks like:
I will try to give my very best to be in shape for the Team Sprint in Herscheid. But we will see what the next few weeks will bring. Otherwise I will be aiming at the races in juli as Mr.Hein will be out crushing souls in australia at that time. He's doing "research" for his study - "yeah right" - we all now what you'll be doing you lucky bastard. If you don't come back as pale as Zellers ass, you have a lot of explaining to do!^^
Soooo..( as you should know by now I like that word and will include as often as I wish:) )
Plan B is on and it still won't be no easy journey.
So hold on to your knickers my lads, I'm on my way!
wish you all the best, and mostly health
yours
Benja
To summarize my situation up to this point:
I had a very good december, swimming quite a lot,
and made some good miles on the bike. I had never bin this fit since ..err..ever?!
Than came january, everything started out fine, but it all ended in a desaster.
Week #3 was a rest week from which I have not recovered since. I had shoulder problems after pretty tough swim workout( 15x100m in 1:16, start-time every 1:25).
I even had started running again. Only slow and only 10min at a time. But somehow, I was still to much for the damn knees. Before I could figure out what was really going on, I found myself unable to run/bike nor swim for 3,5 weeks.
The only good thing I thought was that I did not want to be in shape to early.
Well that can I assure you now;)
And after 3 and a half weeks of doing pretty much nothing. The training camp in Mallorca was upon me.
My knees felt better and I was able to train almost normal. The shoulder wasn't making any trouble as well. Although I felt pretty weak on the bike and overall I could finally train again. After taking it easy for the first days, I was able to train pretty good for about 3 days.
Unfortunately my roommate Zeller caught a cold which turned into a bronchitis..well you can imagine the rest..I'll just say having him coughing all over the place did not help matters..
My last day of real training, and it has been to this day, was the february 26th, a really great and first of a life-time 202km ride. Maybe I'll go a little more into depth about this superb experience, but I really wouldn't bet on it;)
Well two days later I have a really bad cold, sniffing, headache and a little bit of fever now and then for 3 days in a row. The fever vanished after I got home. But the cold and the bad feeling did not leave me for another 2 weeks. I tried training, but had to realize everytime that I still wasn't fit enough to train properly.
As you can imagine I am quite devasted right now.
My absolute A-race for this season, the olympic distance in Buschhütten on the 10th of may, is suddenly so close.. I know that there is no way in hell I'll be ready to show my A-game there. This was the one event I really wanted to shine. So what now?
So I am in the need for a Plan B.
At the moment it looks like:
I will try to give my very best to be in shape for the Team Sprint in Herscheid. But we will see what the next few weeks will bring. Otherwise I will be aiming at the races in juli as Mr.Hein will be out crushing souls in australia at that time. He's doing "research" for his study - "yeah right" - we all now what you'll be doing you lucky bastard. If you don't come back as pale as Zellers ass, you have a lot of explaining to do!^^
Soooo..( as you should know by now I like that word and will include as often as I wish:) )
Plan B is on and it still won't be no easy journey.
So hold on to your knickers my lads, I'm on my way!
wish you all the best, and mostly health
yours
Benja
Monday, February 23, 2009
Mallorca que isla dura
Hey everyone! Long time no hear. So I'm back at the "Wifi für nullo"-Bar to give yall a quick but meaningfull insight in what's been cracking the last Days. *Flavor Flav mode off*
I think I'll start with the body count:
One injured: Ali killed his knee in the first week chasing after a super-strong Matthias.
One sick: Zeller got a really nice sounding bronchitis after a freezing cold descent. With 15 °C and sunny weather he must have been flying at about 100km/h or sweating like mad:) Your call.
I have a little bit of a cold myself. Having not been able to train for 3 weeks at all. I have a really hard time finding into a training rythm again. Six-pack has nearly completely vanished, and the ice-cream isn't helping matters;)
I woke up today with my mouth swollen from my top-right wisdom tooth (molar).
But screw it.
We had an awesome ride yesterday!
Yeeeaah!
Cap Formentor! F***ing windy but reeeeaally buuudöfull:)
(I flatted the wattage-curve to make it visible on one sheet, sry no altimeter data, but you can imagine it from the speed and power data)
It was pretty tough clinging on to Guidos rearwheel on the climbs but a lot of fun all the same:)
The high wattage between 55 and 70 is me on a luckily succesfull solo flight to the Cap Formentor.
Shame was that simon's rear derailleur was really giving him a hard time, stomping into nothing every other minute.
On the way back home, our "lose canon" Guido decided to crank it up a little. You can see the peak at about 92 min. I stayed with him for about 2 minutes than deciding than made the only right and life-saving decision to sit up and wait for simon.
While I was pretty exhausted after this 2:20h ride, Matti and Markus pulled a solid 194km with a striking 28km/h pace.
So much for now. A lot more storys to follow in the next days.
Have a nice day,
hasta pronto!
Benja
I think I'll start with the body count:
One injured: Ali killed his knee in the first week chasing after a super-strong Matthias.
One sick: Zeller got a really nice sounding bronchitis after a freezing cold descent. With 15 °C and sunny weather he must have been flying at about 100km/h or sweating like mad:) Your call.
I have a little bit of a cold myself. Having not been able to train for 3 weeks at all. I have a really hard time finding into a training rythm again. Six-pack has nearly completely vanished, and the ice-cream isn't helping matters;)
I woke up today with my mouth swollen from my top-right wisdom tooth (molar).
But screw it.
We had an awesome ride yesterday!
Yeeeaah!Cap Formentor! F***ing windy but reeeeaally buuudöfull:)
(I flatted the wattage-curve to make it visible on one sheet, sry no altimeter data, but you can imagine it from the speed and power data)
It was pretty tough clinging on to Guidos rearwheel on the climbs but a lot of fun all the same:)
The high wattage between 55 and 70 is me on a luckily succesfull solo flight to the Cap Formentor.
Shame was that simon's rear derailleur was really giving him a hard time, stomping into nothing every other minute.
On the way back home, our "lose canon" Guido decided to crank it up a little. You can see the peak at about 92 min. I stayed with him for about 2 minutes than deciding than made the only right and life-saving decision to sit up and wait for simon.
While I was pretty exhausted after this 2:20h ride, Matti and Markus pulled a solid 194km with a striking 28km/h pace.
So much for now. A lot more storys to follow in the next days.
Have a nice day,
hasta pronto!
Benja
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Markus Mr. 100%
So much for alphabetical order..what you're gonna do about it? Wanna stop me? .. Na didn't think so!
But this post is about Markus.
Originally a swimmer, his progression in the last 4 years made swimming to his weakness.
Well he wasn't born for swimming anyway!:) (maybe I'll come back to that later;) )
He became a decent runner and always was a very "special" cyclist.
Special as..hm.. well, imagine a bowl, throw in some big legs, good aero position, great aerobic base and threshold, mix it with big training volume and then spice it up with poor bike handling skills, and fear of curves. And what do you get, well something strange that's for sure! He could hammer away from the peloton on every straight road but would get caught in every corner.^^
So maybe Hawaii is something for him.. we'll see in the next years:)
But what makes him Mr. 100% is that no matter what is on his training plan he does it 100%. Although sometimes it could be wiser to listen to your body,
not listening to it at all will get you the training volume you need for making big progress.
I am really looking forward to our trainingscamp in Mallorca (17.2.-2.3) where we hopefully get some big miles on the bike done. Not as much as he did last year with Matthias (2000km in 2weeks) but sufficient.
That is enough for one post, a lot more to follow!
This was only a scratch on the surface of this really nice and colourful guy!
Have a nice day!
cya
Benja
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< He's strong so he gets to stand in front:) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But this post is about Markus.
Originally a swimmer, his progression in the last 4 years made swimming to his weakness.
Well he wasn't born for swimming anyway!:) (maybe I'll come back to that later;) )
He became a decent runner and always was a very "special" cyclist.
Special as..hm.. well, imagine a bowl, throw in some big legs, good aero position, great aerobic base and threshold, mix it with big training volume and then spice it up with poor bike handling skills, and fear of curves. And what do you get, well something strange that's for sure! He could hammer away from the peloton on every straight road but would get caught in every corner.^^
So maybe Hawaii is something for him.. we'll see in the next years:)
But what makes him Mr. 100% is that no matter what is on his training plan he does it 100%. Although sometimes it could be wiser to listen to your body,
not listening to it at all will get you the training volume you need for making big progress.
I am really looking forward to our trainingscamp in Mallorca (17.2.-2.3) where we hopefully get some big miles on the bike done. Not as much as he did last year with Matthias (2000km in 2weeks) but sufficient.
That is enough for one post, a lot more to follow!
This was only a scratch on the surface of this really nice and colourful guy!
Have a nice day!
cya
Benja
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< He's strong so he gets to stand in front:) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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