From what I can tell my usual heart rate is 61 bpm and when I’m running it averages about 158. What does this mean?

Seems like they have a killer public parks program.

Haha you got bottom paged so hard

Not enough data for anything, I don’t think. 158 is a pretty common running rate I think. My “zone 3” rate was around 160 and my “zone 4” was 176. For fat burning I’ll target interval running between zone 2 (109 bpm) and zone 4/5 (180 bpm).

My average heart rate always seems to be higher when running when compared to other cardio activity and that includes peloton workouts and skinning up mountains.


Just something about running !

Edited that post with accurate numbers (I'd been going off memory). According to the grad students, a 30-minute workout as noted above -- including five minutes of warmup and cooldown -- should allow me to burn off fat for a solid three hours afterwards.

Trag, get out of zone 3 while you still can. It's plateauville through and through.

I actually believe you! This recent journey started after finding that felt better throughout the day after a 30-minute sprint than a 60-minute chug.

I think 3 days of short High Intensity and 3 days of long burns are the way to go.

Don't forget your yoga/stretching, boys!

10 @ 8:54

Felt fucking great!

That’s great!

Kept doing the HIIT thing for the last couple weeks. I hear what Reid is saying about plateauing…Was increasing my time spent in zone 4/5, but was feeling like there were diminishing returns.

Then I had an annual physical this week and talked to my doc. He said that based on my availability (three single-hour trips to the gym each week, on average), he’d rather I run for 30 minutes mostly in zone 2 (fat burning), followed by 30 mins of full body strength training (deadlifts, kettlebell squats, etc). Did my first session of that today and I am destroyed.

He also said that the next best thing I could do for longevity, weight loss, and wellness is to get more sleep. I didnt want to hear that.

October
17/31
2.18 miles avg at 7:26 pace
37.06 miles total

To what do you attribute this perilous drop in performance from last month

Two specific forces have combined to hold me down. The time I have to get my morning routine in has been constrained.

1. School starts a half hour earlier this year.
2. It’s too dark to start running before about 7am.

Reasonable!

Oh and I was on vacation a little last month allowing me to go on some longer runs and not be in a hurry to get home.

when you went to see Jet at Tacoma Dome?

Everyone knows you can’t breathe the air in Tacoma

My mileage for 3-4 month stretch was pedestrian, for various reasons, but i've upped them a bit the last few months. I've mostly been doing slower, longer runs and can feel a pretty big difference in my legs after running and the next day. I really need to start doing more intervals and speed runs though.

I finally found some support shoes that didn't weigh too much for my weak af body. I'm digging them, but I may have been better served with a half a size down.