Aren't breathing hard at all but legs are burning and have to slow down.
What the heck is going on.
I feel like my lungs are in sub 15 shape but my legs are barely sub 17!
Aren't breathing hard at all but legs are burning and have to slow down.
What the heck is going on.
I feel like my lungs are in sub 15 shape but my legs are barely sub 17!
I think that's how you feel early in the season before you have done any speedwork. Also, I think that this feeling is caused at least in part because of Tim Noakes's "internal governor" - you just can't go all out after not having done it for a while; you have to retrain your "internal governor."
maybe your legs are unrecovered from your last workout due to effort, bad sleep, or bad diet
Interesting theories
I have always been like this. I have never run out of breath on a run.
Training is not just about aerobic capacity, that's why a cyclist can just hop off a bike run. Muscular endurance needs to be developed as well.
thats a sign to start speedwork
Baby I was born this way wrote:
Aren't breathing hard at all but legs are burning and have to slow down.
What the heck is going on.
I feel like my lungs are in sub 15 shape but my legs are barely sub 17!
I use to be like you when I was in high school, and then I started doing a lot more mileage. Basically I went from 40 mpw in high school to 70 mpw my freshman year of college. The result was my legs stopped getting tired, and I was able to train and race at a whole new pace. Now several years later of doing 80-100 mpw my legs have gotten so strong that my breathing is now weaker than my legs, but I feel like I can push through a really fast pace because my legs are not tired.
I've always had this same issue as well, but it's definitely not related to doing lower mileage for me. I can't tell you how many times I've thought during runs/races, "If only my legs felt good, I'd be amazing." Someone else alluded to this, but the key for me has been to really focus on recovery, primarily sleep and hydration. My legs just don't seem to recover as quickly as others, especially with respect to density of workouts. I'm generally okay if just doing mileage, but throw in too many workouts, and that's when my legs start to feel worse while at the same time my aerobic system can always handle everything pretty well.
Sounds normal to me.When I'm out of shape, I feel it in my lungs. When I'm in shape no race distance puts me out of breath even though my legs physically can't move any faster. However, when I finish racing balls-to-the-wall it sometimes takes ~5 seconds before I can breathe normally again.
Baby I was born this way wrote:
Aren't breathing hard at all but legs are burning and have to slow down.
What the heck is going on.
I feel like my lungs are in sub 15 shape but my legs are barely sub 17!
Baby I was born this way wrote:
Aren't breathing hard at all but legs are burning and have to slow down.
What the heck is going on.
I feel like my lungs are in sub 15 shape but my legs are barely sub 17!
I think the cardiovascular system developes quicker than the musculoskeletal system. That's why you can injure muscles and get stress fractures.
This is what happens exactly in long distances. In a marathon, many people can talk up to the last few miles, but the legs are falling off. Just an observation, but the people that are breathing hard in the last few miles are having better races.
So, tired legs means lack of endurance. That's what I'd say. Doesn't Hadd say this as well? Fatigued legs is a sign of not enough aerobic development.
Ax wrote:
I've always had this same issue as well, but it's definitely not related to doing lower mileage for me. I can't tell you how many times I've thought during runs/races, "If only my legs felt good, I'd be amazing." Someone else alluded to this, but the key for me has been to really focus on recovery, primarily sleep and hydration. My legs just don't seem to recover as quickly as others, especially with respect to density of workouts. I'm generally okay if just doing mileage, but throw in too many workouts, and that's when my legs start to feel worse while at the same time my aerobic system can always handle everything pretty well.
I'm in the same boat, and I completely agree on the need for adequate recovery!
Also, I've been singing pretty much since I could talk so developed lung capacity and breath control a while before I started running competitively. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a pretty big factor for me too.