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daviec
daviec
Sep 2011
10:39am, 30 Sep 2011
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I use it to guage my own fitness. I think much like absolute HR it's not any use for comparisons between runners.

I started off HR training again earlier this year and was only getting ~1300bpm, and I'm now hovering around the 110 mark. I get quite chuffed with a run if I see 10xx, lol :)
Gobi
Gobi
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10:41am, 30 Sep 2011
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Very much a personal thing Davie so no point discussing numbers I just wondered if people analysed it.
Meglet
Meglet
Sep 2011
10:43am, 30 Sep 2011
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I look at mine sometimes and notice its fairly similar for both training runs and races. It does decrease as I get fitter.
Gobi
Gobi
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Oh right I get a whole range of numbers at different paces and can work out where I run my most efficiently. I can work out how fatigued I was after training sessions. :¬)
daviec
daviec
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Mine are fairly consistent no matter what pace I'm running.
Gobi
Gobi
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I guess it depends what you call consistant.

Is 20 consistant ?
Is 100 ?

I have some that are 100s out
Meglet
Meglet
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11:51am, 30 Sep 2011
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not that consistent then!! I tend to just look at the first two figures and see if they agree!

Having had a look back they're not as similar as I remember. There is a decrease for races, but its perhaps not as much as you might think for a sig faster pace.

Perhaps we need a graph...
eL Bee!
eL Bee!
Sep 2011
11:57am, 30 Sep 2011
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G - the beats per mile stat is only useful to compare the same run done at the same pace.
Increase in HR is not linear with increase in pace.

If it were, when you stop running you'd be dead!
daviec
daviec
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el Bee, got to disagree with that statement, you can have a linear relationship that doesn't go through zero. But I do agree that HR/pace isn't linear. I'd expect it to be close to linear at lower paces, then start to rise dramtically towards max HR at higher paces, before levelling out again.

Consistency - mine are generally within 20/30 beats per mile.
eL Bee!
eL Bee!
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daviec - I was being slightly tongue in cheek!;;)

But - if you run up a hill that is 20% gradient at 80%MHR
and you then run a flat mile at 80% HR - you will get about twice the beats per mile on the hill - because it takes twice as long.

So as a comparison it is ONLY useful when comparing the same run in the same conditions

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Everything you need to know about training with a heart rate monitor. Remember the motto "I can maintain a fast pace over the race distance because I am an Endurance God". Mind the trap door....

Gobi lurks here, but for his advice you must first speak his name. Ask and you shall receive.

A quote:

"The area between the top of the aerobic threshold and anaerobic threshold is somewhat of a no mans land of fitness. It is a mix of aerobic and anaerobic states. For the amount of effort the athlete puts forth, not a whole lot of fitness is produced. It does not train the aerobic or anaerobic energy system to a high degree. This area does have its place in training; it is just not in base season. Unfortunately this area is where I find a lot of athletes spending the majority of their seasons, which retards aerobic development. The athletes heart rate shoots up to this zone with little power or speed being produced when it gets there." Matt Russ, US International Coach
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