Today's run was relatively short for a long run, capped at 11 miles to bring me to just over 33 miles for the week - opting to follow the 10% rule for increasing distance as opposed to extending distance over last weeks 13 mile long run. I figure that even when I reach the 40 mpw base, most of my long runs will be in the 10-13 mile range to keep with the 30% rule for long runs. Things like schedule, other activities and even other types of runs during the week will end up dictating how long the long runs are - I figure some times the focus of that weeks run will be a long run, in which case it might get to 20 miles or so with the remaining runs of the week being relatively short; but other times the focus might be 2 days of 6 miles @ threshold during the week, and in those cases the long run will be shorter.
The biggest news of the run, though, was that I put my shirt under running water for a few moments before leaving the house to see how it affected the erroneous HR readings I've been seeing during the first 15-20 minutes recently. It seems to have worked - the HR was much more stable, although it did spike to > 160 a couple times early on after the shirt had dried but before I perspired enough to take over grounding of static electricity. I'm just glad to have found the culprit - it has been driving me nuts recently, and when trying to train using HR as a primary metric, having it be so unpredictable was making it very frustrating.
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