You may have exercise-induced asthma. If it continues, you should consider seeing your doctor to get a prescribed inhaler that you can use about 30 minutes prior to aerobic workouts.
Good luck -
Susan

quote:<HR>Originally posted by riley0003:
You may have exercise-induced asthma.
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Exercise-induced asthma is caused by sustained exercise, not by going up a flight of stairs. You just might want not be the type for short bursts of effort. Just out of curiousity: how long does it take to go up one floor (about 10 feet in elevation) without getting winded ?

Your milege of running each week is probably not enough to sustain your old speed. It might be caused by your eventual drop in running milege to perhaps biking and thus your legs become more conditioned for biking than for running.

My suggestion would be to increase your milege. Don't push yourself too hard with anaerobic workout yet. Run slow and comfortable but increase your milege steadily. Once you think you have sufficient miles for that speed you used to had. Then add perhaps 1 speed workout a week and 1 hill repeats day (hill repeats do LOADS to both distance running and speed and you got to try it to really feel the huge difference).

When you run more miles your aerobic strength will improve and when you run up stairs or across the yard you will be using aerobic strength instead of anaerobic (at the same speed).

However, a thing to note is that during short sprints you will go out of breath if you are running your max. But whether or not speed and/or the breathless is the concern, increase the milege and then add speedwork and hill training when you feel you are ready.

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