Went on my first snowshoe workout this morning. We did a pretty long and challenging ascent to a mountain lake - 2,700 feet over 3 miles up. Moved at a pretty good pace going up but it was definitely hiking not running. Coming back down we ran about as fast as we dared - it was a blast - some tough running and HR was high Zone 3 and some Zone 4. Calves, quads and butt are totally fried.
Downloaded the Garmin 305 data into CyclingPeaks and for a 1:50 duration, 5.9 miles with 2,700 feet of elevation gain/drop it gives me an rTSS of 42.0. Seems odd to me. I wasn’t expecting a TSS of a long run or even a tempo run but I was at least expecting something around 70-80.
Went on my first snowshoe workout this morning. We did a pretty long and challenging ascent to a mountain lake - 2,700 feet over 3 miles up. Moved at a pretty good pace going up but it was definitely hiking not running. Coming back down we ran about as fast as we dared - it was a blast - some tough running and HR was high Zone 3 and some Zone 4. Calves, quads and butt are totally fried.
Downloaded the Garmin 305 data into CyclingPeaks and for a 1:50 duration, 5.9 miles with 2,700 feet of elevation gain/drop it gives me an rTSS of 42.0. Seems odd to me. I wasn’t expecting a TSS of a long run or even a tempo run but I was at least expecting something around 70-80.
Thoughts from those of you who snowshoe?
I’m guessing this is becuase you snowshoe slower than you run… maybe you should work out your threshold snowshoe pace, normalized for snowdepth.
Snowshoeing at x min/mile is obviously WAY harder than running or hiking at the same pace. Exactly how much harder depends on so many things … snow conditions, terrain, pack weight, etc that I don’t think any pace based metric could ever make sense. Think about breaking trail through deep powder vs running on a groomed surface. HR probably gives you a better idea.
Who cares, though… So much fun and an awesome cardio and strength workout. I couldn’t believe how beat I was after a long hilly day out in the snow
I cannot speak for rTSS as to whether it is limited in it’s aplication to running only energetics. Whereas GOVSS (http://www.topofusion.com/govss.php and… well… try www.physfarm.com and search for GOVSS explained… they just moved servers and i no longer have the direct link) works on many types of aerobic activities and can be applied to anything that you have a benchmark test available to compare against.
This is because you did it vs your “running on flat pavement pace”, so it thought you were basically walking (which you were, but it was hard)
a) did you remember to adjust for gps altitude? (its on the “corrections” or something menu
b) i would take hta tworkout. Log it as “other”, look at the average HR, figure out the equivalent running pace for that HR, and then relog it using htat TSS as a manual override
