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Sep 2011
10:39am, 30 Sep 2011
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daviec
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 
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Sep 2011
10:41am, 30 Sep 2011
44,400 posts
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Gobi
Very much a personal thing Davie so no point discussing numbers I just wondered if people analysed it.
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Sep 2011
10:43am, 30 Sep 2011
8,271 posts
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Meglet
I look at mine sometimes and notice its fairly similar for both training runs and races. It does decrease as I get fitter.
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Sep 2011
11:27am, 30 Sep 2011
44,401 posts
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Gobi
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. :¬)
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Sep 2011
11:36am, 30 Sep 2011
1,839 posts
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daviec
Mine are fairly consistent no matter what pace I'm running.
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Sep 2011
11:49am, 30 Sep 2011
44,405 posts
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Gobi
I guess it depends what you call consistant.
Is 20 consistant ?
Is 100 ?
I have some that are 100s out
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Sep 2011
11:51am, 30 Sep 2011
8,273 posts
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Meglet
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...
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Sep 2011
11:57am, 30 Sep 2011
17,173 posts
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eL Bee!
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!
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Sep 2011
12:06pm, 30 Sep 2011
1,840 posts
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daviec
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.
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Sep 2011
12:16pm, 30 Sep 2011
17,175 posts
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eL Bee!
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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