Acclimating Is Very Important For A High Altitude Bike Tour as Its Preparation

When you want to take a trip on your bike to high altitude, you have to make sure first that your body is adaptive to the specific environment. This will not only make your trip memorable and hassle-free but will also keep you away from illness and prevent you from cutting your trip short. Therefore, you have to research first about the requirements and then train yourself accordingly for your trip.

The altitude preparation

The most significant and differentiating factor of a high altitude bike trip and that in a low lying city is the lack of oxygen. Therefore, if you want to explore the natural beauty of a place at high altitudes, you must know the means in which you can make your body adapt and cope up with an environment that has less oxygen.

• It is very common for bike tourists who do not have this ability to experience and suffer from altitude sickness. If you are fitter, you will be able to acclimate to high altitudes faster. You will need to take on cycling trips and enough training so that the high altitude cannot affect your cycling ability especially if you hail from a low elevation area.
• All through the process of acclimatization and training, you will know how your respiration and the rate of your heart begin to normalize when you reach high altitudes. However, patience and hard training are required as this process and effect will not happen overnight. It will take a few days to acclimate and even more if you are a weaker soul.
• It is for this reason that you should start the process to acclimate early with short yet rigorous cycling workouts initially and gradually build up to longer workouts. The entire process will take more than a few weeks to enhance your endurance.

When you have high endurance level, it will certainly help you acclimate to high altitude much more quickly than without it. Moreover, you will need to give yourself more time to acclimate before you start riding in high elevation. Both these methods will do wonders and help you to acclimate to high altitudes.

The acclimatization process

You will feel dizzy and weak more often at high altitudes than your simple bike tour NYC on the smooth roads at low elevation.

• You will feel and fall sick more often at high altitudes as you will not be able to adapt quickly to the thin air and your body will need more oxygen to cope up with the physical exertion. You will breathe more deeply and faster.
• When you get more oxygen this way, the heart rate will also increase to pump more oxygen to the muscles all over, and at the same time, your body will start creating a special hormone called Erythropoietin or EPO.
• This hormone essentially stimulates the production of red blood cells in you, and as a result, your blood will have an increase in the capacity to carry oxygen to different parts of your body.
• Therefore, when you ride at high altitudes, make sure that you use smaller gears. This will reduce your body weight and prevent overexertion that will bring in the feeling of altitude sickness more easily.
• In addition to that, you must make it a point to ride at a conversational pace. At the same time, you must also make certain that you take in enough nutrition and keep you hydrated at all times with lots of water and fluid intake.

Carry lots of superfoods so that you will have enough power and energy to carry on with your cycling tour on top of the hills.

Work with professionals

It is best to work with professionals and also take up a biking tour in the high altitudes with a team. This will ensure that you have someone to attend in case you experience any adverse effects of the high altitude and the sickness. The professionals, on the other hand, will know everything that is required to keep you fit, strong and healthy. Nothing will be left to chance, and everything will exceed your expectations.

Apart from your fitness and acclimatization aspect, the professionals will also tell you what to pack and what not to pack in your backpack.  It is quite natural that in sheer excitement of your bike trip you may tend to pack everything that you like in your backpack and leave out the things that are most essential. Remember, not only the scene but the surroundings will also be starkly different when you visit places at high altitudes.

You will not get shops and eateries at every corner of the block as you will find in a bike tour NYC (unlimitedbiking[dot]com/new-york). Therefore, you will need to carry all essentials and only essentials in food, clothing, gear, accessories, and tools.

You will need to know the food to eat as well as how to repair a flat tire on a deserted road. Therefore, proper and adequate training from professional experts is elementary in a bike trip at high altitudes.

Know the challenges

Lastly but most importantly, you must be prepared for the worst case scenarios. For this, you will need to know the type of challenges and obstacles that may come during the trip that you intend to take. It is better to know and expect the dangers and hindrances than to ride without any knowledge of it. This will not only leave you flabbergasted but will push you in a state of shock. In such a situation you will take all wrong decisions as your mind will be clouded and you will be in frenzy.

The best thing to do is to get in touch with a person who has visited before the same place you want to go now. Ask him, or her to share his or her experience with you and know about the probable dangers during the trip.

All these preparations and efforts will keep you safe during your bike tour trip and carry back home fond memories of it.

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