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Originally Posted by DanT
Sounds like you're doing a great job in your training, especially with taking advantage of the many aerobic-capacity building advantages of Zone 2 training.
I've not tried to max out my heart rate lately, but I think my maximum is somewhere close to 167, or close to what someone my age (58.8) would have predicted by the formula 208 - (0.7*age). The highest my heart rate has gotten during a recent workout was 171, after running 8 cruise intervals (of 1 km each, with 200 m recoveries) in August.
My resting heart rate this past week has averaged 39. I'm looking forward to the KC Marathon in 10 days, which I'm hoping to finish not too much slower than 5:15, close to my time last year, when I was about 10 pounds lighter. I'll be one of the heavy and slow runners, but my training has gone well these last couple of months and I was able to get my estimated VO2 max back to what Garmin says is excellent for my age group.
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Oh nice! I'm running in the KC Marathon (just the 5k) as well. I ran my first 5k last week in the Martin City area. It was really fun. I think I have the running bug now. I just love to compete. That is an incredible resting heart beat. I don't even really know what mine is because it's so easy for it to fluctuate anytime you move. If I wear my watch when I sleep it will say it's in the 40's for sure but most of the time when I'm just sitting around I am 49-59.
This zone 2 training stuff appears to be very helpful and I bet I'm still running in zone 3 too much. I need to go to some place that will do my lactate threshold stuff and calculate my heart zones for me so I don't overtrain. That was my biggest issue when I started. Just need to run a ton of miles easy mainly so you don't get injured.
How many miles a week do you run? I'm going to work up to 20 and then get to 40 during the winter and really see how well I can do. The thing I like about running is I can absolutely suck at it but if I just put in the miles I will just beat people that don't run as often that are more talented lol