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buckeyebabe
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Posts: 235Member
MFP Runner's club 6/9
buckeyebabe
Posts: 235Member
Posts: 235Member
Good Morning All!
I kind of fell off the face of the earth this past week but I haven't missed a single run!!:happy:
So, I have been trying to increase my pace lately and have noticed that I am in the 90-95% of my MHR. Although my friend who is a Cardiologist said that was fine since I was in great physical health that I might want to try and run in the 75-85% at just a slightly elevated pace for about a week and see what happens for stamina and then do speed bursts. So ok...I did that all week. I burnt more calories, acoording to my Polar HM over less time (30- 35 min) doing this then if I ran at 7.5 mph for 40 minutes.
AMAZING!! Since I am still trying to lose weight I am going to stick with this method but for races I am of course going to push myself into the 90%. Just thought I'd let you all know what's working for me.
Gonna go run now! But inside as it's already 85 degrees here in Ohio at 8:30 AM and MUGGY!!
Good luck everyone! Have a great Monday!
I kind of fell off the face of the earth this past week but I haven't missed a single run!!:happy:
So, I have been trying to increase my pace lately and have noticed that I am in the 90-95% of my MHR. Although my friend who is a Cardiologist said that was fine since I was in great physical health that I might want to try and run in the 75-85% at just a slightly elevated pace for about a week and see what happens for stamina and then do speed bursts. So ok...I did that all week. I burnt more calories, acoording to my Polar HM over less time (30- 35 min) doing this then if I ran at 7.5 mph for 40 minutes.
AMAZING!! Since I am still trying to lose weight I am going to stick with this method but for races I am of course going to push myself into the 90%. Just thought I'd let you all know what's working for me.
Gonna go run now! But inside as it's already 85 degrees here in Ohio at 8:30 AM and MUGGY!!
Good luck everyone! Have a great Monday!
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I kind of fell off the face of the earth this past week but I haven't missed a single run!!:happy:
So, I have been trying to increase my pace lately and have noticed that I am in the 90-95% of my MHR. Although my friend who is a Cardiologist said that was fine since I was in great physical health that I might want to try and run in the 75-85% at just a slightly elevated pace for about a week and see what happens for stamina and then do speed bursts. So ok...I did that all week. I burnt more calories, acoording to my Polar HM over less time (30- 35 min) doing this then if I ran at 7.5 mph for 40 minutes.
AMAZING!! Since I am still trying to lose weight I am going to stick with this method but for races I am of course going to push myself into the 90%. Just thought I'd let you all know what's working for me.
Gonna go run now! But inside as it's already 85 degrees here in Ohio at 8:30 AM and MUGGY!!
Good luck everyone! Have a great Monday!
It's hot and muggy in Indiana too! It was 70 degrees at 6:00 this morning. Supposed to be hot all week. Gonna have to do my running in the mornings so I don't overheat....
We'll see if I can motivate.......
Happy running to the rest of you!
I have been struggling with the same thing. I hate running slow but to stay close to my THR I have been doing more interval training. So I will push it up to 7,8, then 9mph for 1 minute then bring it back down and repeat as many times as I can. I get in more distance and also increase the amount of time I spend in my THR.
don'tcha just love your HRM? I feel so stupid for not having got one sooner! Thanks again MFP!
so I told you guys how much you motivated me last night to go for a run - well I went to the basement and holy crapola! the boys made such a mess down there earlier in the day that I couldn't even get to the treadmill!! So I had to get them down there with me to clean and by the time we finished that and I got dinner going, I didn't run....I am such a slug for letting "busy-ness" take control!
Today was going to be a day of rest for me but I decided to go ahead and run 2.5 miles, unfortunately that was all I had time for this morning before taking my kids to camp, grocery shopping, laundry, etc. Summer is here....:noway: There won't be too much me time for the next 3 months. I will need to just watch what I am eating in a big way and log, log, log!! That's something that I have been failing to do a lot lately and I pay for it!!!:sad:
Have a good one everybody!!