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sgw on September 19, 2023 at 8:04 am · in reply to: Muscular endurance or running out of glycogen? #81021

Kind of coincidence to find this thread.

I also under-fueled my first (solo) 50k and bonked heavily.
Had mis-calculated my carb intake and only ate about 1 gel (Maurten 100, Spring Energy) per hr. So I hit a wall at around 36k in. I never had such cramps before, for a while I couldn’t even walk slowly. Took a rest in the shadow, ate, drank, waited …

The last 15k distance/500m vert I could only hike. Running wasn’t even a wish anymore. Just getting it done.

Now I looked up things again and found that I maybe only consumed around 50% or less of the needed carbs.

On next saturday I have my 2nd 50, now supported. So there will be aid stations = carbs! 😉 I plan to take plenty of gels with me (Maurten 160 gels), set a eat/drink reminder on my watch and get fueling right from the start. We’ll see if I will be able to tolerate the increased input.

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sgw on August 19, 2022 at 4:10 am · in reply to: manual entries in sportswatch logs? #70054

Yes. I look for some guideline like “for an hour of multi pitch climbing in medium difficulty, calculate X calories or note an activity with Y bpm in average”.

HR seems inaccurate anyway. Yesterday I did some climbs … 4 hrs in total, some easy pitches, some stressy ones … I would like to have that in my various platforms (Garmin Connect, TP, intervals.icu …) somehow.

That leads to another observation lately: it seems I reached a new level somehow or more of a plateau, HR seem lower overall and GC reports I am unproductive … Yes, I know: general algorithms etc. Going out for some intervals now 😉

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sgw on August 17, 2022 at 2:53 am · in reply to: manual entries in sportswatch logs? #69962

Still haven’t solved that … I record approaching to multipitch climbing with my watch, then the next hours of climbing and belaying are kind of a separate thing. I tried to only wear the chest strap and carry the watch in the backpack. The garmin strap should even store HR data (the HRM-Tri does that for swim data).

But for sports climbing days I can only add a manual entry … without distance or average HR because that simply won’t reflect the “workload” correctly, IMO. That leads to TP or Garmin Connect “thinking” I rested 😉

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sgw on June 29, 2022 at 6:30 am · in reply to: 50k in 6 weeks? #68671

Update (without any real questions attached): did that mentioned 30k test run a few weeks ago, that went great. 4 hrs straight, so not super fast (terrain …), but I am happy with that. And another 28k run last week, rather spontaneously: also happy. So these distances aren’t unusual anymore. Looking forward to increasing the distance.

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sgw on June 28, 2022 at 11:57 am · in reply to: Training Peaks, “New Threshold met” – crazy high HR #68647

My high TSS came from my Garmin watch adding Power values with the latest beta firmware. Switching to rTSS calcucation results in a more realistic value (asked TP support for help here). I have to read more on these new data points.

Sorry for the noise here, my issue seems not related to the thread’s topic now.

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sgw on June 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm · in reply to: Training Peaks, “New Threshold met” – crazy high HR #68535

I am currently also surprised by a unrealistic or impossible TSS-value of an activity:

http://tpks.ws/7QNK4IXV6H2UBMADKXFXD6LZ2Y

TSS 1119 for a 3hr activity that was definitely not all out.
The same activity looks rather average on intervals.icu

What TSS does it calculate for your activity?

Maybe others see these issues as well?

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sgw on May 3, 2022 at 4:44 am · in reply to: 50k in 6 weeks? #66498

At first: thanks to both of your for your replies! That is helpful feedback already.

My goal would be “to finish”, no specific time or pace. Sure, I can’t expect more.

I assume I can benefit from the last few years with much hiking and running in the mountains. Definitely needs some refreshing, but the base should be there. Currently I increase the vert component in my runs, while keeping it in Z2 or so. That works quite well, I can see the progress I made over the last 2 years (although, as mentioned, my volume was reduced in the last months).

That 30k run might be the test, yes, and show if I should even sign up for the race. I have the route on my watch and consider doing it quite spontaneously: did such distances in the past, I know, I can handle that, it’s just the question, how happy 😉

Sidenote: I just remember: in march I did a 26k run with 900m vert in 2:53h … that wasn’t really an issue, just a bit boring in the end, but I wasn’t destroyed or something, went for a walk with the family after …

I approached that one rather slowly and defensive: http://tpks.ws/ZU2Y3YGN5MWHC53YTYQDYRNDNE

The idea with a race in autumn is a good one. The one in june is quite close to my home and that’s why I am interested in doing it.

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sgw on January 8, 2022 at 5:48 am · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #61773

Scott, I only noticed your reply right now!
Thanks for the YELLED confirmation 🙂

I took it as a test of my ego … and decided to ignore it.

Aside from that there was a difference in the numbers anyway (it was at Garmin Connect, not Strava): the challenge for the 4th quartal told me I could reach 2021 kms, while the sum for the year was 70k lower … what I want to say is: (a) it’s not 100% correct anyway and (b) it doesn’t matter.

What matters: I saw progress in 2021 and I still see progress and potential. This keeps me motivated and happy (most of the time).

thanks!

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sgw on January 8, 2022 at 5:42 am · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #61772

Reduced volume lately as I have some muscle or tendon issue in my left calf/knee back. It hurts more running uphill so I do more walking/hiking, use poles etc

It seems to get slowly better. As I decided to get myself a TrainingPeaks Premium account, I tried a drift test run today. It seems I was too slow when I look at this:

http://tpks.ws/JEDK2L754IUCXTI4FEYTRMETSU

Pa:HR 1% …

So far I worked with AeT = 139 bpm, seems as if that’s not the case anymore, right?

I am trying to learn TPs various terms and come up with a useful plan for the next weeks and months. I consider a 50k mountain run in spring, that might be a motivating target (unsupported, solo).

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sgw on January 8, 2022 at 2:37 am · in reply to: Guidance re. TrainingPeaks for Upcoming Season #61765

Replying here to “subscribe” to this thread. I also signed up for a TP subscription and imported the last months of activities to get a picture. At a first view it seems I should rest more. But … how? 😉

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sgw on December 29, 2021 at 1:30 am · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #61261

Getting tested right now:

Garmin tells me that I could reach 2021k of running in 2021 … if I complete ~40k more until new year. That would have been possible, but I have a slightly overloaded calf for a week now and running doesn’t really “work” right now.

So I can decide between hunting a random number, maybe (very likely) prolonging the problems or letting go, leaning back, regenerate and feel happy with the progress made and the upcoming training block that I can start when the injury is gone.

Sounds like a good lesson. Should foam roll now.

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sgw on December 16, 2021 at 2:14 pm · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #60888

Had my third vaccination 2 days ago, and decided to reduce activity to let my body react properly etc

Today I went for a hill walk with a friend, wanted it to be low HR, so I added 20 litres of water to my backpack and made it an ME workout. My max HR was 110 .. 79 average, never left Z1, that was recovery in a way. I sometimes mistrusted my (rather new) chest strap. I could have carried more load … did similar weights when I was still ~11 kilos heavier, so I might be able to carry more water instead of my lost body weight?

tmrw I consider some hill sprints instead. I notice that it gets harder for me to reach 165 HR, for example (my watch suggests some sprint workouts and sometimes I try those as a challenge). I would really have to dig deep to push it that high, I think I am limited by muscle power here maybe. More strength training needed, maybe? For sure I have lost some muscle mass in the last months.

I perfectly understand that these suggested workouts can’t exactly match my personal constitution. And it’s very likely that the max HR I entered there might not be correct anymore (174, I think). Should do tests …

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sgw on December 14, 2021 at 2:25 am · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #60774

Thanks, Scott, that sounds great 🙂

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sgw on December 13, 2021 at 2:16 pm · in reply to: thank you – improvement seen. new plans ahead #60740

I re-read my posting and notice that I should have added the original weight maybe:

At the beginning of august 2021 I was at ~81kg, now I am at 70kg

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sgw on July 5, 2021 at 2:19 am · in reply to: manual entries in sportswatch logs? #55428

Sure, I don’t want to damage it … but primarily I don’t like wearing anything on my hands or wrists while climbing.