Just another interesting reminder.

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  • redhawk
    Senior Resident Curmudgeon
    • Jan 2004
    • 10929
    #1

    Just another interesting reminder.

    If you can talk while you are walking, you are walking the perfect speed.

    When you huff and puff, your legs, your digestive system, your whole body does not get enough oxygen to function efficiently. Your energy reserves get used up very quickly with this type of metabolism (anaerobic - without enough oxygen), and it creates a lot of waste products. These waste products make your legs feel heavy and make you feel sick. Walking uphill at a pace that allows you to be able to walk and talk will help guarantee that your legs and your body are getting the oxygen that they need to function efficiently (aerobically - with enough oxygen). Because your body will generate fewer of these metabolic waste products, you will be better able to enjoy your hike, and you will feel much better when you reach its end. It may seem like you are walking too slow, but at an aerobic pace (sometimes baby sized steps when the trail is steep) your energy reserves will last many times longer, and you will get there feeling well.

    from the Grand Canyon hiking tips
    "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson
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    • Wldrns
      Member
      • Nov 2004
      • 4602
      #2
      Kind of the tortoise and the hare effect I guess.

      I'll have to remember to mention this to my canoeing buddies on the carries during the ADK 90Miler race.
      "Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman

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        • Dick
          somewhere out there...
          • Jan 2004
          • 2821
          #3
          Originally posted by redhawk
          If you can talk while you are walking, you are walking the perfect speed.
          You mean I have to be able to do both at the same time?

          I recall hiking a 13er in Colorado back in the '70s with some friends once. Near the trailhead, we quickly passed a couple in their 70's. The man said nothing, and the woman was talking a mile a minute. We moved right along, but stopped frequently for breaks. We must have stopped longer than we thought, as they kept on passing us at break time. They leap-frogged us all the way up the mountain, and she talked all the way, without so much of a huff or puff, and got there only minutes after we did. They were refreshed (don't know how refreshed the man's ear was) and we were pooped.

          So there's something to be said for the tortoise and the hare story.

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