[BoatIt]

BoatIt on November 9, 2022 at 1:54 pm · in reply to: Losing fitness in zone 2? #72539

Seems like a good idea, I’ll take a week-ish off.

I only just recently introduced a handful of 20 second pickups into my runs — recently enough that I don’t think I can whether I feel differently or not. Do you recommend I keep doing them?

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BoatIt on November 8, 2022 at 11:44 am · in reply to: Losing fitness in zone 2? #72448

@Dada I think you might be right; I might be training too close to the top of zone 2 and bleeding into zone 3. I recently did a gas exchange test and my AeT came back at 141bpm. I’m trying to stay around 130-135bpm now (some of those runs have average HRs of ~145).

Nope, no major changes from run 24-26 (that sudden change in performance is what prompted this post). I did in fact test for covid a couple times but came back negative.

My AnT (top of zone 4?) was measured at 179bpm in that same test.

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BoatIt on October 19, 2022 at 10:10 pm · in reply to: Losing fitness in zone 2? #71735

@dcgm Thanks, it’s nice to hear your experience here too. I think I’m going to do another AeT test and see where I land; probably a good idea anyway because my perceived effort is a good bit lower than it was a few months ago. One thing I also didn’t mention is that I run on fairly technical trails which slows things down quite a bit — I wonder if there’s some consequence of running slow yet at the target HR.

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BoatIt on October 19, 2022 at 1:33 pm · in reply to: Losing fitness in zone 2? #71717

Thanks, you’re probably right that a real benchmark would require a bit more rigor. But as is I don’t think this is *too* bad a dataset; there are only 2-3 routes here, at roughly the same time of day, recorded with a chest strap. I guess the punchline is to keep at it…maybe my real question is, is 30-40 miles/week of pure zone 2 work the best way to build a base?