Your husband should be telling you how to train by heartrate. You probably don't need a monitor yet, but if you're heaving you've probably blown up (maxed your heart's endurance level). Go read Covert Bailey. Do a search at Amazon. Besides, every body rides 'till they heave. You've tossed your cookies, you've had a cycling rite of passage. Next you get to learn to blow snot rockets without ticking off the rest of the group, and maybe get some road rash. Sports are physical- if you want to be an athlete, well, it's just as "earthy" (read gross) as having babies. Get over it. You're out in public with your butt in spandex and you care if some stranger saw you heave? I assure you they didn't care, even if they actually noticed.
Now, when you can puke while still spinning, that's impressive. Somebody will notice that! Like the rider behind you.

You've been really sick. Listen to your body. If you're heaving after only four miles, you're still sick. Why does a stranger a thousand miles away have to tell you this? Go out and power walk for a few days. Ride the trainer in front of the TV.

If you get this ill all the time, and you haven't been given pnumo vax, your MD is not doing his/her job. You also need blood work before and after to check your immune system, it's called titers, and there's probably something else up. And no, I don't know what. My own respiratory problems turned out to be driven by a whole set of other things, including allergy.


Lizzy