From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down Greenman, Northeast Ridge, Saddle Rock, Amph.
Started at 6:28 pm. After reading Scott Elliott's description of "four-step", "three-step", and "two-step" breathing, played around with this a bit on this run. Didn't do any "four-step" breathing. Did some "three-step" breathing early on, but eventually got working harder. Did a fair bit of "two-step" breathing. This actually kept me running much more of the ascent than I usually do. Pretty sure I was going "easier"/slower while running than when I'm hiking all out up some of this stuff. But interesting to see what happened when I aligned my breathing cadence and foot cadence - surprised myself to be running sections that I normally don't. When I'd switch to hiking, I found it more difficult to align the breathing. I'm sure it can work, but the slower cadence of the hike threw me off. Anyway, interesting to play with this. Of course, I think dropping 15 pounds would be much more effective in getting me up this hill faster than changing my breathing technique.
0:00 - Gregory TH
8:33 - Amph/Saddle Rock
23:20 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
41:46 - Green summit
45:52 - started down
1:09:46 - Gregory TH
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Scott swears by the breathing. I do what comes natural. Then again he won the Ascent 8 times.
ReplyDeleteI just try not to whistle breathe, anything else is fair game.
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