30-04-2012, 06:11 AM
Good morning!
Yes, from a week ago or so I started monitoring my HR every morning. I do it just when I wake up, lying on bed and trying to stay the most calm, quiet and relaxed I can. I note down the 'lowest peak value' I can barely see and the 'most usual low value' I can easily see.
This past days it has been between 46-49 bpm but curiously enough, yesterday I noted down between 50-53 and today between 53-56 which is a lot higher than last week. Yesterday I was in a hurry because I was late to an event so maybe I was nervous but as for today, there's no special reason... so maybe will be true that competing at a very hard effort can be a little bit taxing on the body hehe.
Also, I got a break on dieting for two days and I put on almost 4 kg!! which is what it took me about 3 weeks to get rid of! I hate my slow metabolism... I hope it's just a lot of water retention due to sudden high carb take in again. But well, I know that I will get in shape in a few days also if revert to clean eating
As for the race, I tried to apply all your advice, started quick, then settled to goal pace (maybe a little bit faster) and try to run relaxed at speed. At the middle of the race I realized that by running relaxed I was starting to lose some speed so from km 7 or so I started applying myself and recovered goal pace and ended with a fast Km as you suggested, giving everything I had left. I was very lucky with the weather since the whole day was very cloudy and windy, but during the race wind was just mild and did not rain more than a few drops. It started to rain heavily again at minute 50+ so slower people had a very different race I guess... :/
This is the activity, notice that avg pace seems a lot faster since the GPS recorded 10.2 km instead of official 10.000. Avg pace according to championchip is 3:41 as I was exactly aiming to.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/172649605
Yes, from a week ago or so I started monitoring my HR every morning. I do it just when I wake up, lying on bed and trying to stay the most calm, quiet and relaxed I can. I note down the 'lowest peak value' I can barely see and the 'most usual low value' I can easily see.
This past days it has been between 46-49 bpm but curiously enough, yesterday I noted down between 50-53 and today between 53-56 which is a lot higher than last week. Yesterday I was in a hurry because I was late to an event so maybe I was nervous but as for today, there's no special reason... so maybe will be true that competing at a very hard effort can be a little bit taxing on the body hehe.
Also, I got a break on dieting for two days and I put on almost 4 kg!! which is what it took me about 3 weeks to get rid of! I hate my slow metabolism... I hope it's just a lot of water retention due to sudden high carb take in again. But well, I know that I will get in shape in a few days also if revert to clean eating
As for the race, I tried to apply all your advice, started quick, then settled to goal pace (maybe a little bit faster) and try to run relaxed at speed. At the middle of the race I realized that by running relaxed I was starting to lose some speed so from km 7 or so I started applying myself and recovered goal pace and ended with a fast Km as you suggested, giving everything I had left. I was very lucky with the weather since the whole day was very cloudy and windy, but during the race wind was just mild and did not rain more than a few drops. It started to rain heavily again at minute 50+ so slower people had a very different race I guess... :/
This is the activity, notice that avg pace seems a lot faster since the GPS recorded 10.2 km instead of official 10.000. Avg pace according to championchip is 3:41 as I was exactly aiming to.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/172649605