Had a test today. AT moved up from 138 to 150, since about March-ish. My hear rate recover from Zone 5 @ 165-170 bpm to base Zone 1 @ 110-115 bpm was about 120 seconds.

My VO2 max has hardly budged, went from 26.2 L/Min to 28.6 L/Min. This is after 7 months of asthma treatment with inhaled and oral meds. 30.0 L/min is the threshold for poor at my age group, under is "very poor".

This is why I have such an endurance problems and am and so up and down on running and swimming.

I am not happy but know of nothing really I can do medically. My coach gave me zone-specific workouts to get me in to 4 and even 5 on a sustainable basis, although most time will be in 3.

It kinda sucks.