Message #12000

[jim-ratliff]

I can easily believe it is mostly altitude.? I know how easily I get winded on the first few days of a ski trip, and then get a bit of acclimitization.

If IRA lives out there, then he is walking around with a lot more oxygen carrying red blood cells than you are.

You check with Lance, maybe he could give some pointers on how to tranfuse red blood cells when you reach the high country??? ?

Lynn is finally getting me to understand that climbing hills isn't really about muscle, its finding a speed/workload where your body can aerobically maintain the level of exercise. I did a 45 mile ride in the Hudson valley yesterday and it was the first time that my "comfortable pedalling speed" actually resulted in me passing people going up hill, and there wasn't a single hill where I went too hard at the bottom and died before the top (that's my old anaerobic method of climbing).? However, what I call hills (at sea level) is NOTHING comparatively, you were climbing mountains at 10,000+ feet.