Mountain Training
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
It takes a while for your body to acclimate to training at altitude. After a month or two, your hematocrit will be higher, but after just a couple weeks, you're probably just worn down a bit after being in a lower-oxygen environment. If you're not used to the humidity, it very well could be that, too. Good luck this weekend!
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trainDaBrain posted 1 year ago.
I'd vote for humidity and your bodies craving some recovery time!
Nice work getting up to those elevations!
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
I'm voting for not being used to the humidity and recovering from the wedding reception!
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Hey Yall,
Just got back from 2 weeks in the Rockies! My wife and I took our bikes out to the Fort Collins Area, and spent two wonderful weeks riding in the Rockies. Base altitude was 5500 feet, and we did daily rides of 30-55 miles, with a max altitude of 10,200 feet. (Oh, and we attended our daughters wedding too).
I was really shocked on the second day, when my wife came chugging up a pass only three minutes behind me. For a cyclist who has been riding less than a year, she is showing tremendous gains!
Anyway, now that we're back in Cincinnati (890 feet), we ran this morning, and it was like running in a pool! Neither one of us could breathe, and even though our legs felt OK, it seemed we didn't have the lung capacity. Times were off roughly a min/mile.
Just wondering if it could be the huge difference in humidity? Anyway, we leave for a weekend of racing in Columbus, Ohio tomorrow afternoon :)
Darrell "Legs 'n Lungs" Lenkner
in West Chester, Oh.
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