Hey Team -
So, a few posts ago I asked about recovering HR mid-training. Yesterday I had another experience/experiment to try and do a zone-type run. My run was supposed to be 20-30min in Z2. I decided I was going to try to control some variables and went to the gym to run on the treadmill. I also took my phone and used the peloton app to do a HRZ run - 20 mins.
Well, 2 observations came out of this. One, to me there's almost no such thing as quick recovery. There were calls in this run to go from 'almost z3 to z1 for recovery' while still running. Obviously the speed necessarily came down, but lowering HR was the point of the recovery interval was the point - which I just can't do. Not sure what that's about.
Second thing; I can't stay in Z2 to save my life. I can walk, briskly, at the top end of Z1, but if I increase the speed of the treadmill enough to actually shuffle/jog, I'm almost immediately in the top end of Z2. Now, that said - my output ability in Z3 is pretty wide. I can shuffle at Z3 all day, and I can run all the way up to 8mph and settle in without breaking Z4.
Last thing I'll say; there's a very possible answer to this - my cardio just sucks. I'm OK with that, it just seems weird because my minimal-level running effort shouldn't require Z3 bpm, I wouldn't think...
M
So, a few posts ago I asked about recovering HR mid-training. Yesterday I had another experience/experiment to try and do a zone-type run. My run was supposed to be 20-30min in Z2. I decided I was going to try to control some variables and went to the gym to run on the treadmill. I also took my phone and used the peloton app to do a HRZ run - 20 mins.
Well, 2 observations came out of this. One, to me there's almost no such thing as quick recovery. There were calls in this run to go from 'almost z3 to z1 for recovery' while still running. Obviously the speed necessarily came down, but lowering HR was the point of the recovery interval was the point - which I just can't do. Not sure what that's about.
Second thing; I can't stay in Z2 to save my life. I can walk, briskly, at the top end of Z1, but if I increase the speed of the treadmill enough to actually shuffle/jog, I'm almost immediately in the top end of Z2. Now, that said - my output ability in Z3 is pretty wide. I can shuffle at Z3 all day, and I can run all the way up to 8mph and settle in without breaking Z4.
Last thing I'll say; there's a very possible answer to this - my cardio just sucks. I'm OK with that, it just seems weird because my minimal-level running effort shouldn't require Z3 bpm, I wouldn't think...
M