Quote Originally Posted by uforgot View Post
Has anyone else had the lung thing? After reading this post, I'm gonna get mine checked out too. My legs are fine, everything is fine, but for my entire life it's the lungs that get me first. When I think about it, I couldn't even run as far as my friends could when I was a kid, and I was spending night after night at the dance studio! Dances are short, runs are long, but both my parents smoked. I don't, never have. I'm a horrible hill climber and even Pyannyplayer has given me some tips, but I'm still out of air. Legs are fine.
Yep, I have the same problem. It's my respiratory limitations that get me on the hills. But 2 1/2 years of biking and walking have helped noticeably. I did used to smoke a lot years ago, plus had very severe pneumonia as a child, so all of that has taken it's toll. Sometimes I simply cannot breathe hard enough or deeply enough to get the oxygen I need on a big hill.