heart rate to drop before beginning the next repetition. Your recovery target should be less than 80 per cent of your WHR.Suggested sessionJog for 10 minutes, then run three repetitions of 1.5 miles at about 85-90 per cent of WHR. Rest three minutes
trying. So my first step would be to add a shorter run to your weekly programme. You could replace one of your hour-long sessions with one of 20 minutes, or better still add it to your schedule as an extra run. If you have a heart-rate monitor use that
rate - resting HR and HR training…Heart rate monitor zones seem wrong pt1Heart rate monitor zones seem wrong pt2Heart rate monitor zones seem wrong pt3Heart rate monitors - only for experienced runners?Hills - how to cope with them??Pace - what speed
but to continue to the top. And that you’d know for sure when you reached it.Not being the best hill runner in the world, I thought I’d use some strategy. I opted for a combination of heart-rate monitoring and run/walk intervals. My thinking (and I use the term
to your wrist to check your heart rate - then go back and do it again.9. You can’t remember your mother’s birthday, but you can rattle off your last five 10K times, including the seconds - and you know they’re faster than hers.10. When you read this list
efficiency, comfort and dragHHalf-Ironman1.9K swim; 90K cycle; 21K run. See also, Ironman.HybridA bike somewhere between a mountain bike and a road bike. Good for all-round use.IIMIronman distance (2.4-mile/3.8K swim, 112-mile/180K bike, 26.2-mile/42.2K run
and run at 65 per cent of your working heart rate. (To calculate effort based on your WHR, subtract your resting heart rate from your max – eg 200-40 = 160WHR. Then calculate 65 per cent of that = 104, and add it back onto your resting rate = 144 target
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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
and run whichever way your impulses suggest.Let your heart beat freely. The heart-rate monitor is a great training tool, but some runners become so dependent on it that they forget what it means to run by feel. Others compute their maximum heart rates too
