dunno wrote:
Shambolic wrote:
How old are you? Have you been running long? It would be worthwhile working out your HR zones and building a plan based on that. Long easy runs are to be done easy and hard runs are to be done hard but not all runs hard. My easy runs are around 140 and my coach will define a HR limit or pace depending on the session and where I am at in my build. It seems that if you are always training at the level you are you are always going to be dealing with fatigue and most probably not getting the gains you could.In my forties. I’ve always run but this year is the first time I’ve actively tried to get quicker as opposed to longer. I had tried zones in the past but found running slow felt so uncomfortable that it did my head in, maybe I need to try again and persist...
Dunno,
If you look at my chart from Garmin you'll see what an all-out effort looked like for me about 3-4 years ago. I was about 44 at the time. So at that age I could manage about 200bpm as a maximum heart rate. I'm above threshold for most of that 5k. At that time running 170bpm for some time wouldn't be a big issue for me (today it might) because I was in good shape.
But like Shambolic said, if you're going to look at your HR you really need to figure out what your zones are, and that will involve figuring out what your maximum is right now. If you know what it is then let us know sine it's going to be easier to figure out if you're running your easy efforts too fast.
Intuitively though I'd say that if you feel like "running slow felt so uncomfortable that it did" your head in, then you might have a general problem with easy running. I know people that have the same emotional response to running slowly and they end up not training optimally as far as I can tell.
PS: I agree with Eric.....
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MattiasNyc: Sep 21, 18 10:00