A run before work

I went to the gym before work this morning as I had a hankering to visit the ‘dreadmill’.

The treadmills in my gym are polar compatible (which means they can pick up my polar heart rate monitor) so it made sticking to my target heart rate (180 – age = 146) a breeze.  All I had to do was adjust the speed a bit.  I can also set the machine to do a constant speed and it will adjust the incline to keep the heart rate stable but I find that’s a bit too slow to respond for my liking so I prefer doing it manually.

When I run outside I wear my Garmin 305 GPS watch which also has a heart rate monitor and I’ve set it so that a little alarm goes off when my HR goes to high.  I then have to slow down sometimes to a near crawl when I’m going up a particularly steep hill.  But I digress.

The run this morning was pretty good but felt quite hard towards the end for some reason.  I think it’s more that there is a lack of distraction in the gym as compared to running outside.  I did 10K in exactly 1 hour.  I think this shows the low heart rate stuff must be starting to work as I don’t think I could have done 10K in an hour without a higher heart rate.

The whole point of this slow, low heart rate training is to increase my aerobic fitness and cardiovascular system.  I’ve noticed that my resting heart rate is dropping.  It was in the low 50s before and now it’s down to the mid 40s so I must be doing something right.

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