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Warming up in the cold

  • 13-12-2011 10:28pm
    #1
    clear thinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    I'm looking for the voice of experience here. Up in ALSAA tonight for a 1 mile race and it was about 1-2c with a hefty breeze and wind chill.

    I did a warm up and a few strides and stayed nice n warm up to the start, lap one was fine, then after 1 lap I could feel all blood come in from my hands and feet and the hard breathing of cold air tightened up my lungs - i used to be asthmatic years ago.

    Question - is there any way to warm up for a race in cold weather that you have found effective.

    Going on tonight it might have been better to keep a snood on, but those kids winning in sub 5 didn't appear to be affected!!!


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  • #2
    Gringo78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭Gringo78


    clear thinking wrote: »
    I'm looking for the voice of experience here. Up in ALSAA tonight for a 1 mile race and it was about 1-2c with a hefty breeze and wind chill.

    I did a warm up and a few strides and stayed nice n warm up to the start, lap one was fine, then after 1 lap I could feel all blood come in from my hands and feet and the hard breathing of cold air tightened up my lungs - i used to be asthmatic years ago.

    Question - is there any way to warm up for a race in cold weather that you have found effective.

    Going on tonight it might have been better to keep a snood on, but those kids winning in sub 5 didn't appear to be affected!!!

    I have asthma but as long as I am fit I never need to take an inhaler and never suffer from the asthma - once the temperature drops to below 3deg though I do suffer from it on a run, even on an easy run and I have no choice but to take an inhaler, I cannot get rid of it no matter how slow I jog.


  • #3
    drquirky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭drquirky


    hmmmm....Big thing for me would be to make sure I'm really well hydrated as it thins the mucous that gets irritated by the cold air- makes me have to spit less... I find that it takes a few cold runs to get myself fully acclimatized to it so make sure you're training outside!


  • #4
    Bugsy2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭Bugsy2000


    Last night was the first time in months that my asthma flared up, but the group I was running with went off at a pace that was too fast for me & that never helps.

    Usually a long & slow warm up does it for me regardless of the weather. The cold definitely has a bad effect on it but a proper long warm up would normally sort me out.


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