After my 'long run' yesterday I wouldn't normally run today, but we pack up tomorrow morning so I decided it would make sense to run this morning and keep it steady.
A recovery run should be run at a lower HR, right? I've been trying to run at 135-142 recently so I needed to keep in that zone as a max. But every time I began to jog my HR zoomed up to 160+. After trying to slow down in line with my new approach, I found that the only way to get it back down was to walk - then it dropped fairly readily back to 125ish. Then a slow jog would send it shooting up again. This went on for the first two miles. Eventually I managed to keep it down while jogging slowly. And nearly 3 miles done.
2 comments:
How long do you spend on your 'warm up'? It should be up to 15 minutes. Perhaps you're getting into it all too quickly so then you're fighting a losing battle for the rest of your run? Walking the first mile of a three mile run might seem like you're hardly running, but it might be worth trying to see if it helps. I know that when we ran together at the club once, we started off too quickly and your hr zoomed up.
I've got my book down off the shelf - will try to look through a bit more before the weekend :o)
Thanks, Womble, I'll try walking longer tomorrow.
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