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I changed my data screen settings on my Garmin this morning. I just used Cadence, HR and HR Zone.....I worked far too hard at the Parkrun on Saturday so I thought I’d run at 80% of my max this morning and not knowing how far I was running.

It felt good, even though I was sweating buckets as I do.

One more run before the Town & Gown 10k on Sunday 😊

Enjoy your day guys 🤗

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So how do you actually run in this mode. Explain further please?

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Morning Mike. I’m doing this according to Strava. Tempo runs is running at 80% of your maximum heart rate, in my case between 153-169.....I’m not using the 220 minus your age formula, if I did I’d be just walking briskly 🙄

Strava has worked my max out at 190

Hope this helps 🤗

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That sounds interesting. Your heart readingsn are about the same as mine - mine averages 153ish and drops down to 140ish, up to your high reading. But Im in the red zone a lot of the time. Your pace is faster than mine though, and youre only a couple of years younger.

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Eynsham is relatively flat Flick, I’d struggle training in Chippy if I’m honest so please don’t compare your pace to mine. Shame you didn’t enter T&G, you’d have been OK I’m sure 😊

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I think by the time I had managed a 10k run, it was cutting it fine. Let me know if any other runs come up though x

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Sorry about typos btw, im surpriaed you could decipher what I meant!

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pinkaardvarkGraduate10 in reply toTedG

I mean do you just watch your heart rate on the watch and slow yourself down or is it more complex than that?

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Sorry Mike, it can be set up so that it warns you that you’re outside the zone but I just check my watch from time to time. I felt the difference this morning, felt easy 😊

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It sounds like a great way to do a more relaxing run. I just find that we have so many hills (in every direction) that even walking can push the heart rate above 80%. Our 'ups' are all over a mile long too, so they account for half a 5k run. I wonder how I'd get around that?

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TedGGraduate10 in reply toSandyscroll

With great difficulty I’d say Sandy 😱

Not a lot in the way of hills where I am, when I am confronted with them I do struggle 😅

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