[bryden12]

bryden12 on July 22, 2020 at 9:30 am · in reply to: AeT Test via Heart Rate Drift #43778

Thanks for the assistance and clarification. I’ll be moving forward with these thresholds with more confidence. I really appreciate the help.

I believed I may be around that 10% AnT/AeT gap so I’ve been giving myself a little freedom to dip in to Z2 (145-159) on some hills here and there, but spending majority of my Z1 training around 135-140. I had 30 minutes in Z3 today and I’m feeling the difference in fatigue. Knowing my zones with more certainty has been such a helpful tool to interpret my fatigue and body’s response to a specific training effort. Still trying to get my head wrapped around the fatigue response from ME and strength workouts, seems that one will remain nebulous.

Again, thanks for the help. Scott, would you recommend a custom training plan when I near the end of 20 weeks? I don’t have objectives on the calendar and I’m looking to continue to build my base without pushing the potential for overtraining. I’m not looking for high end coaching, but more clarification on how to build my time each week.

[bryden12]

bryden12 on July 21, 2020 at 2:57 pm · in reply to: AeT Test via Heart Rate Drift #43761

Thanks again for the continued input, sorry for my delay I was out of touch last week.

The “bouncing all over the place” was my impression every time I looked at my watch, HR seemed to never settle in. That is I’d see 165 at one moment, another it would be 160. The detoured AeT test the prior week felt much more in rhythm with less variability (apart from the clear impact of the detour)

Here are my recent test attempts:
6/16: Anaerobic TT (10 min warm up and 30 all out): http://tpks.ws/J3CJQ7TYZRB6JTI4FEYTRMETSU
7/1: AeT attempt 1 (detoured): http://tpks.ws/X34WSM7EWNAZNTI4FEYTRMETSU
7/8: AeT attempt 2: http://tpks.ws/GVAVONCLKGKZJTI4FEYTRMETSU

[bryden12]

bryden12 on July 8, 2020 at 2:13 pm · in reply to: AeT Test via Heart Rate Drift #43401

Thanks for the input folks. Second attempt: felt good in the warm up, but a little too good. I was shooting for 160 but my Hr at 15 minutes leveled out at 162 so I stuck with it. Pa:Hr came out at 5.81% for the last 60 minutes of the run. I think I know what that threshold feels like though. My HR seemed to be bouncing all over the place throughout the test, I just never could settle in to a rhythm. I’ll test again some time in the next few weeks and tone it back a few bpm.

Link to the AeT workout: http://tpks.ws/GVAVONCLKGKZJTI4FEYTRMETSU