I randomly stumbled on your video, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I haven't ran in a while but recently started up again for a marathon early next year. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said! Awesome job!
this was immensely helpful and resonated a lot with my experience trying to establish a regular jogging routine! I found it really disheartening to see heart rates over 150 even when I felt that I was already really slow... but I've been focusing on a higher cadence now while keeping it really really slow. I feel surprisingly good now, am able to stay comfortably below 150 and hope to improve slowly over time :)
Totally agree. I took up running at 59 and found it really difficult to work out my zones as based on my age I would never have got faster than walking without going into zone 3 or 4. I was fairly fit with a resting HR of 50 from cycling. I’ve just started training for the London marathon and would be walking if I stuck to heart rate zones so just go by feel! I walk my dogs and my heart rate stays below 100 so not out of zone 1 but shoots up when I start running!! Totally confused as does walking count as aerobic training? You’re totally right. 😊
This is soooo refreshing to hear! I've personally been confused by the whole zone 2 thing. Everyone agrees that we should do more zone 2, but not everyone agrees on what zone 2 even means haha. Is it LT1? LT2? Is it a 3 zones system? 5 zones? is it Mafatone? is it conversational? Do we adjust for heat? What happens with cardiac drift? There are so many questions! I personally have to "run" incredibly slow to stay below 150bpm and I flat out can't do it in summer, and I've been running for 10 years. I also am able to hold a conversation at the top end of 170bpm, so the conversation test doesn't work. What worked for me was to learn what "easy" feels like based on how well my body recovered after an easy run. So I would look at overnight HRV, resting HR and general feel the day after the run. This to me is the best indicator to know if I've gone easy or not. But it takes a while to develop that feeling.
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment! It is soooo confusing!!! So interesting regarding the conversation test! It definitely seems too oversimplified to work for everyone. Great tips, thank you so much 🙏
Thanks for your comment Kenny, and great question! It varies but typically a little higher than when I’m not talking to the camera 😂 This run was 146 average. Usually my “easy” runs (if it’s cool temp, flat and actually easy) are around 130-135bpm
I randomly stumbled on your video, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I haven't ran in a while but recently started up again for a marathon early next year. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said! Awesome job!
this was immensely helpful and resonated a lot with my experience trying to establish a regular jogging routine! I found it really disheartening to see heart rates over 150 even when I felt that I was already really slow... but I've been focusing on a higher cadence now while keeping it really really slow. I feel surprisingly good now, am able to stay comfortably below 150 and hope to improve slowly over time :)
Thank you so much for this...
Totally agree. I took up running at 59 and found it really difficult to work out my zones as based on my age I would never have got faster than walking without going into zone 3 or 4. I was fairly fit with a resting HR of 50 from cycling. I’ve just started training for the London marathon and would be walking if I stuck to heart rate zones so just go by feel! I walk my dogs and my heart rate stays below 100 so not out of zone 1 but shoots up when I start running!! Totally confused as does walking count as aerobic training? You’re totally right. 😊
This is soooo refreshing to hear! I've personally been confused by the whole zone 2 thing. Everyone agrees that we should do more zone 2, but not everyone agrees on what zone 2 even means haha. Is it LT1? LT2? Is it a 3 zones system? 5 zones? is it Mafatone? is it conversational? Do we adjust for heat? What happens with cardiac drift? There are so many questions!
I personally have to "run" incredibly slow to stay below 150bpm and I flat out can't do it in summer, and I've been running for 10 years. I also am able to hold a conversation at the top end of 170bpm, so the conversation test doesn't work.
What worked for me was to learn what "easy" feels like based on how well my body recovered after an easy run. So I would look at overnight HRV, resting HR and general feel the day after the run. This to me is the best indicator to know if I've gone easy or not. But it takes a while to develop that feeling.
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment!
It is soooo confusing!!!
So interesting regarding the conversation test! It definitely seems too oversimplified to work for everyone.
Great tips, thank you so much 🙏
As a beginner/non runner this was really interesting info and easy to understand with some good suggestions for getting started and making progress x
Thanks! Hopefully you can implement these ideas in your training soon 😊
Agree! For beginners, it should be about logging kms and enjoying the runs.
Sophie, curious, whats your heart rate while running and filming?
Thanks for your comment Kenny, and great question! It varies but typically a little higher than when I’m not talking to the camera 😂 This run was 146 average. Usually my “easy” runs (if it’s cool temp, flat and actually easy) are around 130-135bpm