The original incident I had in October was that when I started the ride, I just couldn't get up to speed, I was tired, and then we hit very tiny rolling hills around mile 40 and I started hyperventilating on an uphill, couldn't unclip and fell over. My self-diagnoses were everything from acid reflux to bronchitis, but everything pointed toward asthma.

No daily asthma meds. I snort the Astepro daily, which is a steroid allergy med. I think the allergy sensitivity results mentioned something like "nonallergy irritants" which is what give me exactly the same symptoms as allergy sufferers except itchy eyes. The Xenopex is to be used 20 min pre-ride and/or as needed during rides. I am due for a recheck with the allergist, but from what I've been told by her and my GP, they want to avoid steroids if bronchodilators will be useful. I'm wondering whether to start experimenting with riding without the asthma meds because it was cold weather that seemed to set off my EIA.

On a fun note, I solo crashed today when I drafted too close, overlapped wheels and didn't realize what was happening until I got slapped down. Some nice road rash, a very sore shoulder, mildly sprained thumb, and broken nail. Definitely need to do yoga for this weekend's 100k ride.