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Rosehip
Rosehip
Oct 2022
2:05pm, 24 Oct 2022
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Rosehip
My resting HR according to Garmin is 40-42, I regularly set off the low alarm with 36-38 , which waked me up about 7am.
My daytime resting looks to be about 50, but Garmin reports the overnight number.
This is genetic, not a sign of my superfitness, it’s always been a low number!
Rosehip
Rosehip
Oct 2022
2:06pm, 24 Oct 2022
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Rosehip
Dave A if you use the Fetch coloured band bit on your training entries, you can opt to have the site calculte your max hr bands or WHR bands for you - as long as you have the top and bottom numbers.
Dave A
Dave A
Oct 2022
2:14pm, 24 Oct 2022
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Dave A
Cheers Rosehip. Garmin numbers I’ve manually input should workout the zones for me.
Dave A
Dave A
Nov 2022
10:26am, 18 Nov 2022
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Dave A
Morning all.

I’ve been following hr training now for about 6 weeks.
I had 3 easy weeks where I moved from running to a % of mhr to % of whr.

The past 3 weeks have been base training. Trying to stick within zone 2.
I’ve not hr trained before.
How long is it reasonable to notice differences and improvements?

The reason I ask is up until the middle of last week it felt like I was shuffling to run slowly and keep my hr down. Then on one run things clicked and for the same pace/hr I went from the feeling of shuffling to feeling like I was running properly again. With half decent form etc. up until then if I tried to ‘run properly’ I’d get a high hr.

Secondly, todays long run. Up to today my runs have been anywhere in pace from 9.50 mm to 10.30 mm.

suddenly on todays run a fairly big jump to averaging 9.40 for my long run and even managing a couple of sub 9 mm’s.

The only factor that has changed recently is a new monitor. I’ve stopped using the wrist optic on the Garmin and have a forearm strap which was on its 3rd run.
larkim
larkim
Nov 2022
11:56am, 18 Nov 2022
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Anecdotally, for me that's the way it also works - I suddenly get surprised one day that HR / pace has moved to a new level and it sticks like that if I keep up the consistency. How quickly it can kick in is less precise; can be after 4-6 weeks, but sometimes it's been 10-14 weeks or so. I guess other lifestyle factors may get in the way.
Dave A
Dave A
Nov 2022
12:18pm, 18 Nov 2022
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Dave A
In the past, running to effort, and getting the effort right, I’ve had improvements in about a month.

I’ll find out in the next week if it was an anomaly or not.
Parkrun tomorrow as a bit of a benchmark setter and hopefully push a max at the end of I pace it right. Won’t be running to hr.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Nov 2022
3:09pm, 18 Nov 2022
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Interesting to see what you get at the parkrun, in time and hr figures. Going all out at the parkrun? Running the first km to (easy) hr and then letting rip could be an interesting experiment, if you wanted to try it. (And you'd get to pass (potentially a lot of) people.)
Dave A
Dave A
Nov 2022
3:26pm, 18 Nov 2022
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Dave A
I’d like to be able to put some serious effort in over the last k to see what my hr maxes out at.
In terms of time, I’m nowhere near my best ever.

I last did Parkrun in Feb. 21 mins, just coming back from a knee injury, where i’d only just gone from run/walk training to full running after around 9 months of being injured.
Since then I e done a 55k ultra and some further training over the summer, but probably too hard to be anywhere near building aerobic endurance.
I know I don’t get good results if I let rip from the start so will see how the pace is and feels when I set off and go from there.
Dave A
Dave A
Nov 2022
3:28pm, 18 Nov 2022
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Dave A
My last Parkrun I ran with a steady start and gradually got quicker. Only about 10s per mile overall, but even then there was plenty of overtaking after a mile.
It’d be nice to go sub 20.
Daz Love
Daz Love
Nov 2022
3:36pm, 18 Nov 2022
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Daz Love
I am the same as Larks. When I have stuck with it (which was only really once for about 3-4 months) I tended to notice that every 6 weeks had a drop in HR for same pace.

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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....

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"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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