Back in the stirrups tomorrow.

[Bazza1234]

Have been feeling a bit fed up - two weeks away on hols , followed by 2 weeks of extreme hot weather PLUS a head cold means very littel running/exercise and I have become a bit like a caged lion with a sore head!! . I've even taken up drinking at night again - to assuage the pain!!!

But, I am now keen (although still very "snotty" ) to get up before dawn tomorrow and try to get back to normal. Before I went on hols, I was experimenting with running by HR. Now, I am intending to do a 16 week programme which requires me to run by pace -- but I have awful trouble trying to guestimate pace while running. So for this week, starting out slowly - I am going to run on a flat track for about 4 laps (1mile) each day - after a good warmup of another mile - at different Heart rate averages - 130 tomorrow, 135, 140, 145, and 150 ( which I think will well and truly max me out and I don't know if I can run a mile at that HR). Runkeeper will log my pace for these runs. Then I will/should be able to run at a certain pace by looking at my HR - or so the theory goes ( not taking into account, of course, temperature or hills!!)

Then, I "should" be ready to start the next programme.

BTW - It is my experience that Runkeeper is quite good at calculating "average" pace across a run - but I don't believe what it tells me regarding "current" pace.

[ju-ju- Graduate]

good luck and I hope feel better when you get released from your cage!!!

[Bazza1234 Graduate]

The HR seems to be fairly reliable and stable - how "accurate " it is doesn't really matter , provided that it is consistent. I had an interesting experience on the cruiseship - I was reliably told that the HRM on the treadmills did not work - in fact, I proved that myself on a couple of them. BUT - when I wore my own cheststrap, they lit up like a beacon!!!! I can only think that they must have been picking my chest strap up. The count on them was a few BPM out from what my watch was telling me - but I only had to be in about the right ballpark to make use of it.

[poppypug Graduate]

Go Bazz, release the inner beast and go for it ! xxx

[Irishprincess Graduate]

Good luck for tomorrow Bazza. With your track record you'll nail it.