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January 19, 2008 3:48 pm Exercise, WeightInterval running (C25K - Week 2) for 30 minutes and went about 1.96 miles. Week two is done. I think I may need to bump the speed for my runs down a bit since it looks like I might be working just a tad too hard on these runs. I’d like to keep my heart rate more in the zone 4 than in 5 where it seems to want to be.
Afterwards I felt like I could do a bit more so I played around on the rowing machine for about 10ish minutes. There’s a fish game on it that you control the y-axis by rowing harder or lighter and trying to avoid fish bigger than you. It was different and I did that for about 5 minutes before I returned to just rowing. That part I went about 1000m and got my heart rate back up a bit from the rest I had gotten between machines. Done with running week 2; almost 1/3 through it…
Weight - 298.0
January 19th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
One note on HR zones… they’re based off your maximum HR, which varies by activity, and needs to be tested to determine what it is. There are various ways to determine it, the best being to get a supervised test, but there are other ways to estimate it. Don’t focus too much on zones until you’ve made some reasonable estimate of your max HR. Also knowing your lactate/anaerobic threshold will really lay the dividing line between zones 3 and 4, and you can only determine that through testing.