Training Log Archive: schnitzer

Exploring again, looking for some good routes through the terrain in order to design a long, hilly run. Some good ideas but also some less ideal, crappy bits.

I've worked out how my Garmin estimates the hr zones, based on 220-age max heart rate then 10% blocks from there. I think I may be able to tweek these a little more personal without requiring a professional metabolic assessment :)

In any case I'll carry on with my own estimations with AP intensity i.e. it can't be an intensity 5 session if I can maintain the level of effort for more than a few mins.

C • Threshold 2

Benchmark terrain route, steady.

Garmin Connect says that I was mostly in heart rate zone 4 but also a lot in zone 5 - what's that all about then? I only averaged 160bpm.

So if I push hard and say average 165-170bpm or run 5*1km and average say 175bpm on the last rep, that's all zone 5 is it? I guess the 'zones' are probably a bit of guesswork based on my weight, height etc, a bit like when my scales give me a body fat percentage.

Short trail route, steady with new Garmin :)

If that was the last cold of the Autumn/Winter then I got ill six times compared to the five the year before. I feel slightly better about it all now, all pretty normal.