Running with Individual Body Armor (IBA)

Boy, was that heavy! I was doing this as part of the pilot data collection for our DOD project. That IBA was about 21 lb in total, which may not be much, but when you were doing a VO2max running test with that thing on, it really made it a lot harder. My lactate level was about 6 mmole throughout the test, and the time to fatigue was 9 min shorter than when not wearing the IBA.