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Jun 2020
11:08am, 24 Jun 2020
16,747 posts
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Rosehip
I've started wearing mine all the time as my fitbit refuses to hold a charge anymore and I got used to weariing a watch.
It keeps telling me to MOVE! though, which becomes a little irritating.
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Jun 2020
11:10am, 24 Jun 2020
2,684 posts
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Pothunter
The move notification is particularly annoying when you’ve not long got back from a run!
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Jun 2020
11:17am, 24 Jun 2020
11,640 posts
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SarahWoo
You can turn the Move! notification off (but don't ask me how  )
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Jun 2020
11:53am, 24 Jun 2020
526 posts
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Rrunner
I've found the Move! function handy while WFH as I don't get up to talk to colleagues and it reminds me to get up and stretch my legs.
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Jun 2020
1:42pm, 24 Jun 2020
13,831 posts
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mulbs
Hi all, apologies for non-attendance last night. I did an experiment with my Garmin on this morning's outing - I tried to stay in zone 2. Disaster - zone 2 is less than my normal walk and more than my normal plod. I spent the entire time flitting between having to walk to bring it back from zone 3 into zone 2 and then trying to run slowly enough to stay there. And after all that it didn't like what I'd done and I showed even less in the low aerobic range than usual. I've decided life is too short to spend my run looking at my wrist.
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Jun 2020
4:38pm, 27 Jun 2020
12,446 posts
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Badger
That was what it was like for me when I started out with HR training. Pain in the neck, ended up doing a sort of ungainly hop from foot to foot that didn’t really qualify as running. It did do the job eventually though; I can run 10 minute miles for 10 miles in zone 2, and my race times are considerably faster than they were.
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Jun 2020
4:49pm, 27 Jun 2020
13,832 posts
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mulbs
A recommendation then badger? How long was it a pain in the are for?
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Jun 2020
5:03pm, 27 Jun 2020
12,447 posts
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Badger
Yes; even now, I can see a lot of friends on the orange place who run training runs faster than me but race more slowly.
I had a poke through my records and it looks as though I started that about the start of 2007, found myself running 14 minute miles on the flat, and by May had improved that to 11 minute miles on the flat. For a long time, long runs would still need to be close to 11 mm to keep the rate down, and it was probably sheer volume got it down below that in the end.
Paul N has just started HR training and is discussing it in the heart rate thread. Ultra runner who can run sub 20 5k, and he’s struggling with staying in zone 2, so you’re in excellent company (and I don’t mean me!)
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Jun 2020
5:53pm, 27 Jun 2020
16,818 posts
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Rosehip
If I could trust the wrist HR to actually give me sensible readings I'd be more inclined to try harder with it. But it gives me gibberish most of the time and I hate wearing the chest strap so I'm run-walking to keep HR down best I can.
Aiming for polarised training based on paces rather than HR - which is what the TrainAsOne bot is giving me at the moment.
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Jun 2020
7:25pm, 27 Jun 2020
12,448 posts
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Badger
Wrist HR isn’t good.
Nothing much wrong with optical, but it needs to be up on the fleshy part of the arm, on a reasonably elastic strap so cadence doesn’t wipe out the actual blood signal.
Currently using a Tickr Fit for that, much more comfortable than a chest strap (which make me bleed after a couple of hours. Lovely).
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