breathing!

[suzeworld]

Learned this in Biology that when your body craves oxygen ie when climbing hill, you breathing becomes quicker and shallower as you know, however doing this your lungs dont expell all the Carbon dioxide so this builds up. You need to take control of your breathing and have severel deep expels of the lungs even though your panting away. It makes a huge difference, I know.

Yup -- my mate and I are not "that keen" on hills and one day we were slogging up some serious steepitude in Scotland, and we were both breathing really noisily ... when one of us could breath enough to talk we amused ourselves by noticing it sounded like we were in a porno-film ... I now pride myself of porno-breathing as a sign that I am expelling the CO2 - just trying not to care if there happen to be other ppl around to hear it!

 

[iamRayRay]

Porno film breathing... for some reason I can't get this out of my head...

Next time I'm struggling up a hill with no lower gears... YOU'VE TAINTED MY MIND!!!

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Try cycling out of Hebden Bridge in the Peak District. Heavy breathing, deep moaning, the occasional simpering sigh of despair and a section of cobblestones to send a few tremors through your equipment.