In addition to my reading, a recent and very interesting podcast by Geeks in Running Shoes (episode 19) featured an interview with a couple of coaches from PRS-Fit who gave some extensive, in-depth information on the value of training in heart rate zones. On a side note, definitely check out this podcast if you haven't yet, all of their shows are very entertaining and informative. I'm really digging it.
So, it got me thinking more of using the HR monitor for recovery purposes. As an experiment, I let the HR dictate the pace today, with the goal of staying in the 130s to be in Heart Rate Zone 2, which is a recovery pace. I wetted the strap again and had a few, small spikes in the data in the first mile or so, but nothing too bad.
It went well. It was difficult to run that slow. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that my pace was as slow as it was for that heart rate. I didn't get much sleep last night, so maybe I can blame it on that? Perhaps it's because of yesterday's tempo run? I don't know. I have a lot to learn with this kind of stuff and I look forward to doing so. Would love to hear your thoughts on this or heart rate training in general, so if you have some food for thought, advice or whatever please leave a comment.
Ran 5.0 miles @ 8:51/mile pace.
AHR/MHR - 134/157
Paved roads.
Slightly hilly.
Mid 40s, sunny, breezy.
Saucony Kinvara, shorts, windbreaker, short sleeved shirt.
3 comments:
I agree it is really hard to run slow by heartrate, especially if you have hills like that! But...it`s a great way to get a true recovery run in. Keep at it!
Thanks Mike, but note that the hills really aren't anything drastic.. it just looks like it because of the scale of the graph, but if you look at the numbers along the Y-axis you'll see that there's really not too much elevation change.
I use heart rate a lot and find that it rarely equals perceived effort for some reason.
I trained and used it for my 50K and I was very happy with the results as it went like clock work.
What sucks is when the monitor quits and you are used to using it!
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