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When I hit a long climb, very quickly my legs start to get a burning
feeling, my breathing becomes so fast that I can not breath very well, and my HR goes through the roof. Whats happening apart from the fact that I am pooped ? Thankyou |
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"Ben Hughs" wrote in message ... When I hit a long climb, very quickly my legs start to get a burning feeling, my breathing becomes so fast that I can not breath very well, and my HR goes through the roof. Whats happening apart from the fact that I am pooped ? I don't want to question your skill, but are you experienced with long climbs? Is this a problem you've just discovered or is it a change from your previous hillclimbing experience? Also how hard are you going at the climb? Are you holding your gear and stomping on the pedals, or are you changing down through your gears to maintain a steady cadence (pedalling RPM)? If you try to stomp hard on a long climb and don't use the gears this will easily happen. Even experienced riders can forget their climbing technique if they spend a long period away from the mountains. There are two keys to long climbs - cadence and breathing. Try to keep your cadence high by using the gear range, dropping into a gear that enables you to sit on about 60-80 pedal revs if you're a beginner, 80-120 if you're more experienced. Generally if your legs are burning you are pedalling at too low a cadence, if your lungs are burning it's too high. As for breathing you need to concentrate on slow, deep breathng. Fast gasps will push up your heart rate and wear you out rapidly. I find that I have a set rate of about one full breathe cycle for every four pedal revolutions. Climbing 15 kms of mountain road with 30-40kgs of camping gear on the bike teaches you a thing or two about pacing for a climb. Cheers Peter |
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"Ben Hughs" schreef in bericht ... When I hit a long climb, very quickly my legs start to get a burning feeling, my breathing becomes so fast that I can not breath very well, and my HR goes through the roof. Whats happening apart from the fact that I am pooped ? Thankyou You may be going too fast in the beginning. How skilled are you in dividing your efforts over a long climb? -- Posted by news://news.nb.nu |
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My technique for really long accents in the Otways here is...... get of and walk. powin -- powinc |
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message news My technique for really long accents in the Otways here is...... get off and walk. I would have thought accents in the Otways would have been more General Australian than Broad. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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Ben Hughs Wrote: When I hit a long climb, very quickly my legs start to get a burning feeling, my breathing becomes so fast that I can not breath very well, and my HR goes through the roof. Whats happening apart from the fact that I am pooped ? Thankyou Happens to most of us, the feeling in your legs is from lactic acid. You can get it out of your muscles by setting a high cadence on the descent. -- Cyclist14 |
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Cyclist14 wrote:
Ben Hughs Wrote: When I hit a long climb, very quickly my legs start to get a burning feeling, my breathing becomes so fast that I can not breath very well, and my HR goes through the roof. Whats happening apart from the fact that I am pooped ? Maybe you are a sprinter rather than a climber? Translated into sports science/bio-phisics -ese, maybe your muscle-type is predominantly "fast-twitch" rather than "slow twitch"? I'll hazard a guess that you are no giant, but strongly built. "Fast-twitch"/"slow twitch" doesn't always go with body size, but is definitely linked to body type. Lanky, and (mainly) tall types win marathons, but 100 metre sprinters are generally samller muscley dudes and dudettes. That said, whatever their muscle-type, being tall genrally gives athletes mechanical adavantages over less lofty folks... sigh :-( Thankyou Happens to most of us, the feeling in your legs is from lactic acid. There's some talk that Lactic Acid is simply the symptom, or maybe a solving mechanism, rather than the *problem*, wrt fatigue: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/...s/s1179526.htm (scroll down to the third story by Maria Tickle) http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/q&a/041118-6.htm and so on. You can get it out of your muscles by setting a high cadence on the descent. Personally, I favour taking a breather at the top of a big hill climb, maybe reading a book for a while or maybe having a nap... and then doing a minimum of pedalling at all, and while in a shagged-out state, trying to avoid crashing on the descent :-) . xxx p aka f_n ps: the above is a guaranteed way to avoid PBs! |
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