Health check...

I haven't been posting much because I am not loaded with good news or good workouts. Only good news I have is that I got a job in the re-org here and I'm getting a little raise. I will not be doing technical work anymore (big plus). On the health side, we are still ever changing the diagnosis. Back to my cardiologist and he does not believe it's muscle related because it would only hurt in one spot and not my entire chest. He believe I'm having arterial spasms and that would be consistant with the cold water incident also. Only treatment for that is blood pressure meds, so I am going on Norvasc. I already have a pretty good low blood pressure, but he wasn't worried about it lowering it much more. Last time I went to see him it was 98/62 so he said at least I'm not stressed:) My chest CT scan results came back yesterday and they are normal/clear. Who the heck knows what is wrong with me. All I know is I used to run half marathon distance in the beginning of May and I can barely complete 2 miles now w/o chest pain. I have been swimming slow as I can keep my breathing easy and hear rate lower and still get a workout in, so I'm swimming 2 or 3 times a week. I can bike, but it is so hilly here, it's hard to keep my heart rate down going up. Mostly I'm walking the dogs for exercise now and I started walking a couple mornings a week as well as at night (except mornings I swim). This is killing my distance and racing. At this point, I'm not sure how I will feel for my next race July 27th. That race takes me about 3 hours..Olympic distance..., so I will need to be in good health for it (1500meter swim/25 mile bike/6.2 mile run). I'll keep you posted on the health. For now, I'm trying to cut down on the calories because I'm not running 8 miles at lunch anymore. Take care all...