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death.jester on March 31, 2020 at 3:25 am · in reply to: Running with Weight Vest – Muscular Endurance? #40012

Thank you everyone for the reply.
I was not worried to not run too much in Z1. But without the weight vest I’m running in Z0. But as Reed wrote, maybe it’s ok to set the numbers for Z1 lower. I often tend to run too fast anyway. So maybe this will slow me down, and also help me mentally to not run too aggressive. Currently I don’t do any ME workouts at all. I’m just doing a verrrryyy llooooonnnnggg base period.

I also figured out running with the ankle wights doesn’t work very well. I ordered a pair, but after a few minutes into the run, I lost them, because the strap was not good enough. Now I will just use them at home for my other exercises, but not for running. And yes, I didn’t thought that having extra weight on my ankles would maybe alter my moving mechanics. I won’t try this again.

Thanks @Reed you have a very good point:

Running together has kept me from doing (as many) stupid things, and I have gotten faster.

Because when she is not running with me, I often push too hard. So maybe it’s good that way.

Thanks again for the good input from all of you! And keep running slow 😉

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death.jester on March 27, 2020 at 10:54 am · in reply to: No AeT improvment #39907

What Training Peaks shows you is the PA (Pace) vs. HR (Heartrate). So of course your heartrate can stay the same for the whole workout or in your case just be 1bmp apart, but if your pace goes down, the value will increase. You will see in your Training Peaks data for the run, that your pace went down, probably by ~11%, because your heartrate was more or less constant.

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death.jester on January 24, 2020 at 10:29 am · in reply to: Help interpretting second AeT test #36831

Isn’t the “drift” calculated between heart rate and pace (HR:PA), as described somewhere on the website [1], and not based on “start HR” to “end HR”?
And because, your provided workout doesn’t have valid pace data there is no way to say whether the heart rate was below AeT threshold? Or do I misunderstand the Drift Test myself?

[1] https://uphillathlete.com/heart-rate-drift/

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death.jester on October 8, 2019 at 1:18 am · in reply to: Weighted Pull-Up Training #29631

Hello David,
Sorry I’m responding a little late, I was away. But, thanks for your reply! That helps. Then I will try to vary my workouts more and see how it goes. Thanks again for your reply.

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death.jester on August 30, 2019 at 6:41 am · in reply to: Optimum protein intake #27573

Hello,
even though I’m not the one who initially asked the question, I was also curious about this question. Because I “recently” (more or less) started to increase my Protein intake, with very regular training, and I was also wondering if this has any bad side effects.
But now I did the math, and I’m not even close to hitting 3g/kg. For breakfast I eat oatmeal, mixed with a spoon of protein powder (~21g of Protein), which is still below the amount you suggested (0.4g * 70 = 28g) for me (~70kg body weight). And for the other meals I think I roughly take the same amount, maybe even a little bit less.

So thank you for the answer!

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death.jester on August 23, 2019 at 6:42 am · in reply to: Trekking poles and shoes #27262

Hello ste,
to your first question:

I was also not a big fan of tracking poles, I always thought they go in the way and are hindering me in my movement. Plus, it always takes ages to adjust them to the right size again when I need to unfold them (I had the fully adjustable ones).
But then I bought a pair of foldable ones, the BD FLZ (there are others from different companies, they have a more or less “fixed” size but can still be shrinked), and this really changed how I think about poles now. Because I really only use them for specific terrain (mainly when going uphill on trails) and want to put them away fast when I don’t need them and unfold them fast when I need them, so yes, with these it’s easily possible and works well. Now I really like poles and I usually have them with me when I’m running or hiking on mixed terrain terrain.

2. I’m also not a “fan” of big mountain boots, and I also only really wear them when I have steep snow/ice where I need fully automatic crampons. For “lighter” terrain I have a pair of Salomon X/Alp Carbon 2, which work well with flexlock crampons. They don’t have real ankle support but have a gator built in to prevent snow from entering. I really like those shoes, they work very well in most terrain and temperatures and are very light even when compared to other normal hiking boots. For everything else, that does not involve snow I just use normal approach or trail running shoes.

I don’t have experience with the Scarpa’s Ribelle S OD, but I was also thinking about getting a pair. But I have tried them on in a shop and they are still very, very stiff, because they are compatible with semi-automatic crampons, so they might be lighter than a “full” mountain boot, but they are still more on the mountain boot side, than on the approach shoe side. So I decided against them, because for most of my tours they are still too heavy, and when I go ice climbing I need mountain boots for automatic crampons.

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death.jester on August 1, 2019 at 10:15 am · in reply to: High elevation gain races #25849

Jungfrau Marathon in Switzerland (42km ~1800m gain) https://www.jungfrau-marathon.ch/en/

Some of the Skyraces https://www.skyrunnerworldseries.com/races/

And an advertisement for some local marathon and ultra-marathon: UT4M https://ut4m.fr/en/trail-alps
You can run any of the 4 races as a single Marathon without the need to do all 4. This year they f**** it up and it was canceled. But in general the event was nice last year.

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death.jester on July 2, 2019 at 5:43 am · in reply to: Sleep features for monitoring cumulative stress in new Polar watch #24358

My observation with two watches with wrist heart rate (Forerunner 235 and Fenix 5+) shows that the problem with the wrist heart rate is not the “absolute” accuracy when, e.g., running with a roughly constant pace, but the delay when my heart rate rises. What I mean is, fast heart rate changes, such as very short spikes (when, e.g., climbing, weight lifting or doing interval training with short intervals) are just not recognized by the wrist heart rate sensor. Here I have two examples:

With chest heart rate strap:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3663552483

With the optical sensor from the watch:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3636127880

it’s both indoor climbing and I’ve just tracked it for fun. But anyway, you see on the elevation graph that the watch recognized the “altitude” change even indoors (which amazed me). But you can then easily correlate whenever I was climbing, because my heart rate went up, whereas on the one which I tracked with the wrist sensor you see nothing. Also the summary below shows 107 – 176bpm (when measured with the chest heart rate strap) vs. 87 – 118bpm (when measured with the optical sensor). Of course these were two different sessions, but I’m pretty sure my heart rate in the second session was above the given value.

And as you can see from both graphs, by “short intervals” and “fast heart rate changes” I mean roughly 1.5-2 minutes, which is a lot! Especially, when the experts here (Scott and Steve) are talking about “do an interval of 8 seconds” xD

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death.jester on June 7, 2019 at 1:29 am · in reply to: Best HR monitors w/ wrist display? #23125

I had a Polar H7 ( ~40-50 Euros). I was happy with it. It didn’t pair with my old Garmin Forerunner 235, though. But it then paired well with my Fenix 5+. The readings seemed quiet precise.
But then for whatever reason the strap (not the heart rate monitor itself) broke. But it seems like the straps break after ~1-2 years (at least according to Ama*** reviews). I read lots of reviews where people were complaining about it. That’s annoying and not very sustainable! But you can at least can get a replacement for 10 (Chinese copy) to 20 (Original) Euros.

But to see if the one from Garmin is better, I recently invested in a Garmin HRM Run (~60-80 Euros). It provides some nice additional metrics for running because it has a build in Accelerometer (tough they are kind of useless when Trail running, because they only work well on flat terrain).
The disadvantage is, the heart rate monitor is directly fixed to the strap. So when the strap breaks you can trash the whole device.

So, still not 100% convinced by either of the solutions. But I saw that DCRainmaker [1] thoroughly tested tons of these devices (wrist and chest), and there where some which he suggested. Even though when I searched for them, if I remember correctly, it was hard to order them in Europe. Because some of them I think were manufactured by US companies which only shipped to the US. So depending where you are located it might be an issue or not 😉

[1] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/

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death.jester on June 6, 2019 at 4:05 am · in reply to: ADS and running for hikers #23023

Hey kocanez. I’m not an expert, I can’t give you a lot of advice. I just have general remark. It seems you tracked your heart rate with the Vivosmart 4 (wrist-based heart rate monitor)? Or did you wear an external chest strap? Because the heart rate measurements on the wrist are kind of unprecise. I mean for a constant activity (where your heartrate is constantly elevated) such as running they are usually “fine”, and I don’t think it is heavily off, but if you do interval training or exercises that only elevate your heartrate for a few seconds, then the wrist heartrate monitor is completely useless, because it’s too slow to catch up. I have observed this already quiet often with my Fenix 5. My advise would be to repeat your run with the chest-based heart rate monitor and compare the results.

Apart from that your heart rate of course heavily depends on your age. But it seems like you are also suffering from ADS, like me 😉