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Permalink Reply by James ("Jim") Keane on March 3, 2012 at 11:15am

Correction, by avg HR in my last 6 minute trial was 169 vs. 156 for the prior 6 minute trial, and as I noted above I was pushing it, in a mid-afternoon, whole-body-wide-awake, felt-like-puking all out run.  (I rowed crew in college, and retain a vivid muscle memory of six-minute puke-your-guts-out cardio work - I'm guessing most rowers live way up in the high reaches of their HRs during races.)  My newly calculated zones, based on this near-puke-level HR (Joe Friel for running) are:

Zone 1 < 136

Zone 2 < 146

Zone 3 < 154

Zone 4 < 160

Maybe it's right.  I just want to make sure I'm getting the most out of Eric's training plans.  Actually before this re-calculation, when all my zones were about 11 bps lower, felt pretty wimpy.  I would appreciate any input - just that with this wide swing there may be a mistake.

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Permalink Reply by James ("Jim") Keane on March 3, 2012 at 5:06pm

Here are main sets from todays aerobic intervals workout (2x6 minutes in zone 4)  - maybe the new zones are okay.  I couldn't sing the national anthem during main sets, but it didn't feel at all like "max" either - felt like a moderately aggressive race-day 10k pace, something I could sustain:

MS 1: 6:04 minutes, pace of 7:59, avg HR 158bpm

MS 2: 6:02 minutes, pace of 7:54, avg HR 160bpm

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