This is very interesting. I don't have a power meter, but I do have a Garmin Edge 500 with HR. However, I've been riding so long without HR that I often forget to look at it, instead relying on monitoring breathing and lactic acid burn in the legs. When I do look at it, I'm often too busy looking at the percent grade readout to bother with HR
I have a couple videos I recorded of myself climbing some hard hills around here. Keep in mind that I am still in the process of losing weight, and I need to lose 40 more pounds to get to my ideal weight. Also, the reason I'm posting these is to get some opinions on a couple comments I received on them, NOT to try to pad my view count like a certain poster in a certain other forum accused me of
This is the first one. In the Clydesdale/Athena forum I was complimented for having steady breathing. The effort was ridiculously high though, and I almost blew up. The grades on the hills were between 8%-12%.
Here's the Garmin Connect data for that video.
Compare that to
this one, where someone posted a comment on the video itself saying "That looks like a great road for some hill work. Listening to your breathing ...It seems you are a bit out of control and hyperventilating. You might consider concentrating on your EXHALATIONS so they are controlled. You should notice your HR drop when you do this. Not sure it works for everyone...but I try to slightly back-pressure my exhalations a bit too."
I'm not sure if I agree with that or not. I told him that the first and last climbs in the video were painful, therefore that may have affected my breathing. I'm not an expert at this kind of stuff, I just like to climb, and I'm trying to get better at it so I'm not so pathetically slow.
Nowhere during this ride did I feel like I was about to blow up, even though the hills were much steeper, with grades up to 19%.
Here's the Garmin Connect data for this video.