Heavy Breathing While Running

watergirl - 2006-03-24 1:57 PM It will probably settle down a little bit. But the faster you run, the more oxygen you need, the harder you'll breathe. But here's the real question. Do alpacas breathe heavy while sprinting?

that's an excellent question.  I'm not sure how alpaca breath when they run.  I haven't been around them to know.  I think we need an alpaca expert to answer this question.

But in all seriousness, I hope the heavy breathing ceases once I adapt to my new pace.  I've just never breathed that loud before while running.  Now I apologize to the people I run with because I know it's annoying.

Not sure.  I don't have a HR monitor.  Like I said, I feel fine and I can still talk- it's just that I'm breathing loud.

mmmm....new boyfriend........breathing hard during runs........perhaps not as much energy for runs as there used to be?........hmmmmmmmmm.......or perhaps running with boyfriend?..............

much to consider here.

Not sure where this is coming from. I think Janelle has run a couple marathons, looks like she's done at least a couple half marys and a HIM in the past six months.

I'll let her answer to her base, but I don't think she started logging until mid-year.

I run my tempo runs at ~ 8m/m pace, probably can be described as " huffing 'n puffing". Has nothing to do with lack of base.

I'm not sure I breathe loudly, though.

(Science: biochemistry) The conversion of a monosaccharide (generally glucose) to pyruvate via the glycolytic pathway (i.e. The Embden Meyerhof Parnas pathway) in the cytosol.

Generates ATP without consuming oxygen and is thus anaerobic.

Origin: Gr. Lysis = dissolution

A metabolic process that breaks down carbohydrates and sugars through a series of reactions to either pyruvic acid or lactic acid and release energy for the body in the form of ATP.

The first stage of cellular respiration where glucose is converted into two molecules of pyruvic acid. In aerobic respiration, this pyruvic acid enters the Kreb's cycle while during anaerobic respiration, the pyruvic acid is made though cannot enter the Kreb's cycle, and produces a net gain of 2 ATP from one glucose molecule.

 Yup, that sounds about right!

I don't know the answer if your heavy/loud breathing will go away but I suspect when you push yourself it will always be there. What pace is hard for you now will be easier later, but then you will have a new hard pace that I think you'll be a loud breather.

When I race short races by the end of the race, I sound like I'm having an asthma attack. I think that what happens to me when I really really push myself....for me that doesn't happen in training only racing. But as my HR rises my breathing changes. At 155 I start the louder breathing...as I get to 170's I very loud...I see it based on my HR zones.

People in running races always hear my catching them...no surprise passes by me. I'll have to see on my race Sunday what my HR is when I get very loud...I'll be thinking of you the last mile or so! 

I have 3 years of a running base- ran 2 marathons a bunch of 1/2's, in which all my runs were pretty much a slow pace.  I just recently started speed work and tempo runs this season, as well as a LSD on the weekend.  I think I have a pretty decent base, it's just that I'm not used to running at a faster paces.