OK, so there's more in this article than just nose breathing, but it's a topic that I'm starting to think is as important as footwear (or lack thereof). For the most part, I'm now limiting myself to a pace that I can maintain while breathing through my nose, and treating it as a form of heart rate training (since I'm too cheap to buy a heart rate monitor).
I've had some "success" racing 5k's this year, PR'ing twice, but always while breathing heavily and quickly through my mouth and it just doesn't feel good like a nice long run at a steady effort.
Since I've started paying more attention to this, I've noticed my "nose-breathing-comfort" pace is almost always about 8:40 on 4-6 mile runs. (In contrast, I ran a 5-mile trail race at 7:22 pace this spring -- and not surprisingly, it hurt!) Even on a 15-mile long run, I was still around 9:00/mi, so I feel this is a very sustainable pace for me at the moment.
So the experiment is on. I'm going to try really hard to curb my competitive spirits for the remainder of the season and see if that 8:40 number makes any downward movement.
Anyone else nose breathe? Willie, I seem to remember we had a brief thread about this on the RW forum.
I've had some "success" racing 5k's this year, PR'ing twice, but always while breathing heavily and quickly through my mouth and it just doesn't feel good like a nice long run at a steady effort.
Since I've started paying more attention to this, I've noticed my "nose-breathing-comfort" pace is almost always about 8:40 on 4-6 mile runs. (In contrast, I ran a 5-mile trail race at 7:22 pace this spring -- and not surprisingly, it hurt!) Even on a 15-mile long run, I was still around 9:00/mi, so I feel this is a very sustainable pace for me at the moment.
So the experiment is on. I'm going to try really hard to curb my competitive spirits for the remainder of the season and see if that 8:40 number makes any downward movement.
Anyone else nose breathe? Willie, I seem to remember we had a brief thread about this on the RW forum.