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Weekend Race Photos Up; Heart Rate Still Down

May 2, 2006 at 7:26 pm · Filed under General

Today was a good day of training. Headed out for a run at around 7, started out a little off. My heart rate was high, in the high 150’s. This was frustrating considering the progress I thought I made on my last run (see previous post). I stopped to re-group and let my heart rate drop, a 20 seconds later after it dropped back to normal levels I continued the run. Good news, I was able to keep it between 134-137 for the next 20-25 minutes out, then I kicked it up a notch on the way back, high 140’s with a couple sections in the low 150’s. I seem to have a habot of turning it up a notch when I know I’m on my way back home. Anyone else do that?

This afternoon I walked out to the pool and swam for just short of an hour. Should have swam the whole hour but wanted to hitch a ride home.

Matt thinks my gains in lowering the heart rate are probably due to finally putting real time in the pool and thus improving my overall fitness.

Spent several hours this evening going through all the photos I took and put them in two batches. I took probably around 500 shots so it took quite some time. One batch of 75 for the racers to check out, tried to create a sample including shots of everyone. And batch two being a slideshow of the better few dozen shots.

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bluebirdbiker said,

May 3, 2006 @ 6:28 am

Oh ya, I ALWAYS in the last km of the run find the HR sky rocketing to severe levels of Z4 hehe. No worries, supposed to be good for ya :-P Great work. Nice pics dude!

Lisa said,

May 3, 2006 @ 7:06 am

Whenever I turn for home, I always say the same thing…”home again, home again, jiggity jig”…ok, I’m weird. But I think I pick it up a notch too. :)

I love the pictures too. There are some really great expressions in there. Fun to look at. And the details in them are impressive.

Kylie said,

May 3, 2006 @ 8:16 am

Oddly enough, I think my HR drops after I turn for home. That could be that I tend to have the downhill parts start at turn around though :) . However, it’s often a little higher the 2nd to last 1/2 mile from home when I’m tasting the finish and not yet making sure I’m good about keeping it low.

I read that letting it raise really high at the end is bad… and that it undoes a number of the benefits for keeping it low during the run… not sure where, but I thought it was the article BBB sent me. Hmm… will have to look at this.

Tim said,

May 3, 2006 @ 11:57 am

In our running club, we simply refer to the pickup at runs end to “smelling the barn”. haha

clayton said,

May 3, 2006 @ 8:51 pm

Man, I need to learn from you. Just can’t control my hr, hehe. Everybody turns it up a notch!!! I hope…;-) Keep up the great work!!!

petethecanuck said,

May 4, 2006 @ 7:23 pm

Yeah I find that during the “return leg” of a run my HR starts to creep a tad higher too. I really try to pay attention to my monitor when it’s beeping at me to slow down!

cool photos btw! I could almost feel the pain from some of those expressions.

cheers :)

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