Faster: a new running blog

Jim Charanis Posted on November 11, 2005

Faster
is a new weblog I found via the Triax site. Kevin seems to be a dedicated runner just as enamored with the Triax technology as me.

His recent posts made me think. This one talks about HR spikes and jumps and the differences on different runs. I respond:

You have a nice start here. I’m not sure about more of your profile, like age, goals, history, etc. You should share.

I saw your graphs – I find it pretty normal, you didn’t change the sampling rate did you? (can we do that?). Your HR is more jagged on your faster day, which makes sense. When I run faster I tend to have a much more erratic HR – especially when I hit the hills and get tired. Even more when I haven’t taken an off day in between two hard days.

Rest is important, its the best thing about a HR monitor. My opinion is its not so much there to make sure you run fast enough on your hard days or races but that you run LSD slow enough to build base and capillaries and endurance and muscle.

Thanks for the time, good luck in your training. The 5K was my favorite in high school CC (but that was over 20 years ago when I could run one in less then 16 minutes). 10K’s are harder but at least there is more room for excuses to not have to run as fast .
My last 10K was at an 8:06 pace (I was injured to be fair to myself). My goal is to first get back to 2004 when I ran a 46:34 and then to find 7 again after that.