might expect. Heart rate monitors are really good for base training and will give you instant visual feedback on whether you're training at the most useful level or not... which is often amazingly slow. – Dave CochraneSet a targetEnter a race. You know
to give the worked muscles a break. Higher heart rate, feeling of tiredness, a drop in performance and increased susceptibility to viruses are all symptoms that you appear to have. To reverse the effects of overtraining, you should stop training completely
is to lose weight, you shouldn't be giving 100% in your workouts. The point is to spend as much time as possible running, rather than running at high intensity. Buy a heart-rate monitor, which can tell you when you're going too hard. At this stage it
racing and training. At the start line you should be sweating and your heart rate elevated (60-65% of max). However there are two reasons why this rarely happens: at the start of big races you need to get into position and are probably waiting 10-15 mins
frequently gone away and I can continue. – LauraFTune into your heartThe thing that worked for me was putting on a heart rate monitor for the first time. Straight away it told me I was putting too much effort into my long runs. There were times when I
sessions were useful for ultra endurance. Obviously you don't run ultras anywhere near threshold, but raising the threshold means you are operating further from it. So even if you work at the same heart rate, you're working at a lower percentage of it
. It carried on pumping blood at a fast rate to muscles that no longer need it in such large quantities, so a backlog begins to build up, causing a reduction in the amount of blood returning to the heart. This leaves organs like the brain going short of blood
:-)"And finally, some British humourThe 'FLM 2007 - Anyone thinking of doing this one?' thread may come as a welcome antidote if you're put off by vastly experienced runners in earnest discussion about splits and heart rates. "How far is it?" asks Tri
'm feeling a little under the weather, I find getting out for a gentle run helps. I pay close attention to my heart rate, keep the effort EASY, and run for 30-35 minutes max. It may be psychological, but I'm sure the lift my mood gets from this helps
that I'm a tiny person. My blood pressure is very low, and the walking helps with my swollen feet. So I think trying to keep up some sort of activity is invaluable. General advice for us mere mortals is reduce by 50 per cent and keep your heart rate below
