detailed training diary. By downloading all of your sessions and logging other information such as conditions, how you feel, resting heart rates, bodyweight, sleep patterns and so on, you can establish an extremely useful data bank. This not only helps you
on the intensity of the work-out you do. It will also be affected by the duration of the run and the temperature.If you record your recovery time alongside other information in your training log, youll soon get to know what your recovery times should
on nice smooth tarmac, and then do the same on grass or, worse still, long, wet grass or sand, and you may think you've upped your pace by half a minute a mile the heart rate will be that much higher.So when logging your training heart rates, take care
. Ideally you should do this before you get out of bed, but if that’s impossible, do it at the same time each day, while inactive. Log this in your training diary and watch for patterns to develop. After a few days, you’ll get a baseline of your normal
