Appendix 1

A brief note about my breathing

Chart showing Steve's breathing rate against 'normal'

Peak flow is a measure of litres of air one can breathe per minute. The best I could achieve, when I was doing the Munros, was a reading of 570 litres per minute (depicted by the triangle in the above chart). This is below what it should be (about 650 - depicted by the circle in the above chart) and explains why I struggled so much during my mountain ascents.

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