Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I wrote this all down and will bring it up to her sprint coach and see what he thinks.
Her times were not all that quick, as these where her first 100/200m of the season. The 100m was 13.66 and the 200m was 27.30.
She is in the Philippines with her mother (dropped them off at the Airport yesterday) now for 10 days visiting family. The Sprint coach gave her a workout that is more 400m orientated, as that is her favorite race. She is hoping to be able to run the 400m sometime when she gets back.
I never seen a kid love something as much as she loves track…that is all she talks about all year long.
She runs XC from July to early December, after Summer AAU/USATF track… I know, I know, not good for a sprinter…but, she is a good long distance runner too.
She made the Varsity girls XC team last Fall, which is not common for a Freshman at this school. Her girls team went to State and placed 5th. They were hoping for higher, as they won Districts/Regionals and the previous year both the Girls and Boys team took 1st at State.
There are scholarships involved if she runs both XC and track, so that is part of it too…she loves track much, much more, but she is very highly competitive and just plain loves to run.
What she puts herself through to run just amazes me, as I have posted before, she has breathing issues, Excercise Induced “Vocal chord Dysfunction” with “Hyperventalation Disorder” with Stridor, which means a loud, whistling obstruction sound from the throat.
http://cantbreathesuspectvcd.com/
Video:
http://fauquierent.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-of-exercise-induced-vocal-cord.html
When she starts running her vocal chords start to close. The further she runs, the smaller the opening in her throut is for air to pass, which leads to the hyperventalation disorder. It starts really showing up beyond the 200m, and about half-way through a 5K XC run, her vocal chord opening is much smaller…
The Asthma/Allergy Doctor is amazed she can run 200m, let alone 5K. I have pictures of her vocal chords starting to close after only running 4 30’ “lines” that the doctor had her do, and then quickly put a “scope” down her sinus…amazing to see the “V” of her vocal chords close.
Many people have Vocal Chord Dysfunction, but are mistakenly diagnosed with Asthma…that is what happened to my daughter, and when it didn’t seem to get better during times when it should have, I took her to the specialist. It was quite a relief to find out she did not have Asthma!
She is re-learning how to breath, and very slowly getting better. She never breathed from her “diaghram” and only breathed very very short, shallow breaths, about 5 breaths to every one of mine.
Again, the doctor is perplexed how she could run XC…I guess sheer determination, as she never remembers the finish of a race, she collapses at the finish, hyperventilates, and slowly recovers…then she is fine. Doctors say it must be the most unpleasant thing to go through, the feeling of not being able to breath, but it won’t hurt her as long as she wants to continue.
She is very excited to see how improved her running will be in about a year after she “should” be cured from her breathing issues.
Again, thank you so much for your help!