Where's Wally
It was a nice easy 10k this morn with Clairie and Lizzle, we averaged just under 5:30 pace. The perfect session as all of us are doing Caboolture on Saturday night. Not to mention we were running slow enough to squeeze in just a bit of a chat. We finished with the now standard 20 push-ups.
I wore my HRM for the first time in yonks but have no idea what the reading meant - I averaged 130 bpms. I might do a bit of research to see what heart rate I should be running at for the 6 hours ... unless of course somebody out there already knows :-)
I said yesterday there must've been around 100 runners at PCRG. In fact there were 102 - a record crowd!
On the hill yesterday
Just some of the record 102 runners
I wore my HRM for the first time in yonks but have no idea what the reading meant - I averaged 130 bpms. I might do a bit of research to see what heart rate I should be running at for the 6 hours ... unless of course somebody out there already knows :-)
I said yesterday there must've been around 100 runners at PCRG. In fact there were 102 - a record crowd!
On the hill yesterday
Just some of the record 102 runners
posted by Tesso at 1:52 PM
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Still not getting your updates and yet I deleted you and then resubscribed. Guess I will just have to visit the site each day to check :(
I estimate your max to be 172 so a HR of 130 would be around 75% of Maximum HR. That is a good training HR I think. I have no idea ha ha
Actually I think your HR was a bit high for how slow we were running but that would be because of how bloody humid it was out there this morning - totally stinking I found it. I was very dehydrated afterwards. I got home and felt a bit crook for 30mins.....maybe that was the anger at breaking my key in the ignition though!!!
Great running/gasbagging with you this am. Cheers, clairie.
As far as what that heart rate at that pace means. It means your bloody fit. Well as fit as I am right now but still not as fit as our mate Mr. Lacey.
I saw those photos on Pat homepage today too. Terrific shots.
To really make any sense of the HR you need to know your Max HR. Using the 220 - age estimate for maxHR is a very poor guide. eg Mine would be 168 but in reality it is 186. That can make a big difference.
I would expect an easy run like that should be in the 70 - 75% MaxHR zone.
Wally? Standing on Pat's left holding the red drink bottle?
Yes, depends on your maximum. I like Robert's idea - no higher than 75%. For me, that's about 6:10/km but there's no way I could keep that going for 6 hours.
Wally is in the centre, four rows back.
Whoops make that two rows back!
are we supposed to say "there's no wally's there, only nice folks"
agree with Graham that unless you know the max, it makes it a bit hard. my max is actually lower than most, so i puff at about 135-140, thus probably over 75%.
the conversation test is pretty much sport on...sounds like you did plenty of that so all's well :-)
I'm also not getting your feed. I couldn't believe it had been so long since you posted so clicked through to your blog. There are several feeds, so I'll try one of the others.
I think it's hard to talk about an appropriate heart rate for such a long race. Since you haven't been training with a HRM, I'm not sure that now is the time to try and apply it in a race, especially an ultra where aerobic endurance and stamina are probably less a factor than biomechanical fitness and energy supply. You probably have to just go by feel to find that level of effort you think you can maintain. Actually, even though I make extensive use of teh HRM in my training (in case you hadn't noticed), I plan to not wear it in my upcoming marathon because under racing conditions I think it is more important to go by pace and how I feel.
FWIW.
tessoooo, you are so populaaaaaar.
Thats a great photo of you tesso, you look like your flying, such a good action shot.
Now that's a really serious runner's look - obviously you must've been running too fast! (tho' at least you don't get your feet confused and fall over in the process like some people....)
For my easy runs I find I average about 140bpm - don't know whether that's good or bad?
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