Anybody else experiencing this?

[antonioa]

Morning all

I started C25k in early July, duly graduated and have been running 2-3 30mins runs per week since, with around 5 lots of 5k thrown into the mix. Times are getting better, so I see that as a sign of improved fitness.

My conundrum....If I'm out walking and I take a phone call, I notice that I'm out of breath whilst talking. Additionally, when I walk (sometimes run) up a couple of flights of stairs, I'm puffed out and "dying" when I reach the top. My breathing is fine during my runs and I'm nowhere near dying. Is this normal?

[ArthurJG Graduate]

I run on the flat and my breathing is easier running an easy pace 5k than it is walking briskly up a steep hill.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

My guess for stairs is that you don’t do a warmup before starting and you go up there pretty fast! So you’re shocking your system. Look how out of breath a 100m athlete is at the end of the run.

If you look at the incline of the stairs, without the steps you’d need hands down to get up it... that’s actually quite a lot of work to get up.

[CatMo13 Graduate]

When walking my hr can get up to max so walking is quite a cardio activity....

[antonioa Graduate]

I fully understand all your replies. I'm probably reading too much into it. I'll keep enjoying the running!! Thank you

[Realfoodieclub Graduate]

Is it at all possible you are fitter than you have been before therefore doing things at a faster pace,just because you can. When I am out on my own my walking pace is so much faster than it used to be (pre running). I went out with friends the other week and used the downstairs loo in a coffee shop, I came back up to find my mates staring at me saying “you just ran up those stairs”. I hadn’t even realised I had done that 😀.

[antonioa Graduate in reply to Realfoodieclub]

You could be right. We're doing things faster but just slightly "overdoing it", hence the breathlessness, etc.