Your freehand drawing skills are of the charts (semi pun intended)! My two cents on heart rate is that there are many ways of calculating zones. None is necessarily better than the other, as it will vary from person to person. I feel a lot of people are using "just" max heart rate and a 50 - 60 - 70 - 80 - 90 - 100 (from easy to VO2max), while some are using heart rate reserve with the same 50 - 100 model, and some (like me) are using any other custom method to set their heart rate zones. I feel most people, including myself, are too focused to stay in the "correct" zone, and do not understand that the zones are a best guess or estimate, but also that the heart rate (and therefore the zones) will vary quite a lot depending on a lot of factors like sleep, time of day, temperature, fueling, stress +++. Fully agree with RPE is great, and I try to use heart rate and/or power as a supplement to sort of make sure I don't go all crazy in either direction.
Oh god. Don't do a video comparing the Pace 3 to the Pace Pro. I bought a Pace 3 today, and don't want to know how much worse it is than the Pace Pro. In terms of training, I don't really think that you can pick just one method. I will always use pace-based training when I'm trying to crack a certain race pace (no use running to HR or RPE when you've already decided that you're sticking to a particular pace on race-day), but when I'm trying to build progression over the course of a few weeks, RPE is the one that lets me know whether I'm going to be okay for my planned run the next day. I also monitor my HR when I'm doing threshold and VO2M training because it's a good indicator of how oxygen is moving around, but I don't really care about HR otherwise.
Wow, I’ve never seen all this side by side. It seems that a certain level of fitness is needed for these zones to be more defined. For example, there might not be a pace that a beginner can sustain without going into the higher HR zones. It took me several months of running before I was able to lower my HR during a run by slowing my pace during intervals training. Even now, there isn’t much difference in pace between my recovery, easy, zone 2 runs. Is there a best way to speed up these adaptations? 😅
Your freehand drawing skills are of the charts (semi pun intended)! My two cents on heart rate is that there are many ways of calculating zones. None is necessarily better than the other, as it will vary from person to person. I feel a lot of people are using "just" max heart rate and a 50 - 60 - 70 - 80 - 90 - 100 (from easy to VO2max), while some are using heart rate reserve with the same 50 - 100 model, and some (like me) are using any other custom method to set their heart rate zones. I feel most people, including myself, are too focused to stay in the "correct" zone, and do not understand that the zones are a best guess or estimate, but also that the heart rate (and therefore the zones) will vary quite a lot depending on a lot of factors like sleep, time of day, temperature, fueling, stress +++.
Fully agree with RPE is great, and I try to use heart rate and/or power as a supplement to sort of make sure I don't go all crazy in either direction.
Love it! Especially the race zone metric. Makes sense. Easy pace goes all the way up to 🤮 on the ego scale.
nice. haven't seen this done before
Oh god. Don't do a video comparing the Pace 3 to the Pace Pro. I bought a Pace 3 today, and don't want to know how much worse it is than the Pace Pro.
In terms of training, I don't really think that you can pick just one method. I will always use pace-based training when I'm trying to crack a certain race pace (no use running to HR or RPE when you've already decided that you're sticking to a particular pace on race-day), but when I'm trying to build progression over the course of a few weeks, RPE is the one that lets me know whether I'm going to be okay for my planned run the next day. I also monitor my HR when I'm doing threshold and VO2M training because it's a good indicator of how oxygen is moving around, but I don't really care about HR otherwise.
Wow, I’ve never seen all this side by side. It seems that a certain level of fitness is needed for these zones to be more defined. For example, there might not be a pace that a beginner can sustain without going into the higher HR zones.
It took me several months of running before I was able to lower my HR during a run by slowing my pace during intervals training. Even now, there isn’t much difference in pace between my recovery, easy, zone 2 runs. Is there a best way to speed up these adaptations? 😅