<p>Has anyone ever trained at a high altitude? If so, how long? And how much did your times improve for your respective event(s)?</p>
<p>There's this kid in my school who came here from Chile. He's mad good at x-c and long distance running. He said he did a lot of running in the mountains with his school. I assume that those mountains are the Andes. Anywho, he's a very good runner. He's going to Stanford for art next year.</p>
<p>my XC coach once recommended it as a training thing for a bit. It supposedly adjusts you to the higher altitude with less oxygen and therefore when you run on normal grounds it feels like you have so much oxygen. I'd definitely agree. And i think the reason dvlfnfv5's friend runs welll. Is cuz of tha ttoo :)</p>
<p>Sorry but the altitude here is 0 (sea level).</p>
<p>I haven't gone to high alititudes to run, but I used to play a lot of basketball. Since I lived in the mountains, when we went down lower, we had a little more energy in the last minutes of our games.</p>
<p>Where I live in WY, the elevation is around 6500 feet. It takes around a month to adjust to the altitude, and many people experience headaches and shortness of breath from the lack of oxygen. Your physiology changes, composition of blood is different, lungs are more efficient, etc. When our athletes go to lower elevations on the other side of the state to compete, they aren't as tired. At a camp in Florida last year, my basketball team found that we could run forever!</p>
<p>i've run at 10,000 ft +. during the ascenion to mount whitney we had a resting day and it was pretty flat where we were so i decided to run a bit (2-3 miles). its tough. u are constantly catching ur breath, jumping over rocks, etc..</p>
<p>yeah our coach actually takes us to a team bonding XC camp at tahoe which is pretty high up there. but 5 days won't do it for us. if your serious go for 3 or 4 months, at least that's what he said works.
Anyway every year we run "Spooner" 8 miles up and 4 down
It's deadly and the highest altitude is so high...
It's not that hard to know that air is that much thinner...</p>