Hi, new poster here, sorry if this has been covered, but I've searched the internet at lengths and can't seem to find anything... My resting HR seems to be doing something very strange the days following a race, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
I'm thinking of signing up for my first ironman next year, and I've got a lot of endurance training for 12 hour obstacle races and mountain trail running races of 50 miles, but I want to make sure I'm doing things safely and not straining my heart as I up the ante here.
I've been doing a race once a week on zwift and I've noticed the following trend. Day of race, resting HR is 49. Day after race, resting HR is 49. Two days later, resting HR is around 44. At this point I usually begin training again, if I didn't do something light the day after the race already anyway. I've always noticed this trend, but it has become more obvious and apparent now that I'm racing more frequently on a bike. I couldn't race as frequently when running, but I've always noticed a similar trend in the last year. I also noticed, according to my garmin, if I put in a good effort on the day my RHR is lower, my VO2 max jumps up 1. I know you're all thinking, dude, what are you complaining about, but I want to see if anyone else has this similar trend now that a lot of people have constant HR tracking on their wrists.
When I search the internet, the only thing I can find is related to over training and your HR increasing, not decreasing. Today was the first time my RHR has dipped lower than 44, and it was 39. 5 Beats didn't seem to be anything to be concerned about, but 10 seems a little odd? Am I overdoing it? I don't feel like it. I spend most of my training time in Z2, less than 147 BPM and I'm 32 years old. The race I did on zwift the other day, my average HR was 158. I wasn't all-out racing, otherwise it'd have been around 164, which is why it's even more odd to me that my HR has dipped so low.
Anybody have similar experiences?
I'm thinking of signing up for my first ironman next year, and I've got a lot of endurance training for 12 hour obstacle races and mountain trail running races of 50 miles, but I want to make sure I'm doing things safely and not straining my heart as I up the ante here.
I've been doing a race once a week on zwift and I've noticed the following trend. Day of race, resting HR is 49. Day after race, resting HR is 49. Two days later, resting HR is around 44. At this point I usually begin training again, if I didn't do something light the day after the race already anyway. I've always noticed this trend, but it has become more obvious and apparent now that I'm racing more frequently on a bike. I couldn't race as frequently when running, but I've always noticed a similar trend in the last year. I also noticed, according to my garmin, if I put in a good effort on the day my RHR is lower, my VO2 max jumps up 1. I know you're all thinking, dude, what are you complaining about, but I want to see if anyone else has this similar trend now that a lot of people have constant HR tracking on their wrists.
When I search the internet, the only thing I can find is related to over training and your HR increasing, not decreasing. Today was the first time my RHR has dipped lower than 44, and it was 39. 5 Beats didn't seem to be anything to be concerned about, but 10 seems a little odd? Am I overdoing it? I don't feel like it. I spend most of my training time in Z2, less than 147 BPM and I'm 32 years old. The race I did on zwift the other day, my average HR was 158. I wasn't all-out racing, otherwise it'd have been around 164, which is why it's even more odd to me that my HR has dipped so low.
Anybody have similar experiences?