Week 3 Run 2

[LeeU]

I was a little concerned that my legs would be heavy, they weren't.

I hopped onto the treadmill and set off for week 3 run 2, I'm contemplating ditching the app in favour of the podcasts so I don't have to keep checking the app is working but we'll see how it goes.

I got into a lovely breathing rhythm that was broken at the end of the first 90 second run, got into it again on the first 3 minute run and didn't get as thrown after the run sessions ended.

Looking through some of the Garmin data for the run vertical oscillation, which is relevant because Laura mentioned the hedge in this run, my vertical oscillation is 0.4 cm more when I'm running than when I'm walking, so 4.0cm average when walking 4.4cm when jogging.

My cadence is 155-164 when jogging so I'm happy with that, for now. Average heartrate 133 bpm.

One thing to think about if you do or are thinking about cycling as well as running, both will increase your cardiovascular efficiency and burn calories, one unfortunate side effect is this, because they both increase your cardiovascular efficiency you may start seeing lower Training Effort scores if you use a Garmin.

I like to see a good training effort score after a run and by rights I should be seeing them but today, even though I jogged along at 7kph instead of the 6kph I did last time, I got a 3.0, the same run last year (6kph) I got a 4.6.

Happy running everyone

[linda9389 Graduate]

Garmin stats - gotta love 'em! Garmin is often wrong. Garmin tells me I'm getting less fit sometimes. He knows nothing! It's usually because I ran longer or ran harder. Garmin likes low HR, Garmin forgets to take account of many other things. I hate Garmin stats 🤣

[LeeU Graduate in reply to linda9389]

Lol, I know what you mean but I am a stats man, I work in IT and can spend days looking at spreadsheets and writing scripts, etc, so I'm all about numbers.

I wish I could stop myself looking at the Training Effort but I can't, unless I get high ones it looks like I'm slacking off.

[linda9389 Graduate in reply to LeeU]

Ditto to all the above. I strive for low training effect though, because Garmin will only raise my VO2 max (my holy grail stat) if I can reduce my training effect. I have a 235, it may be different on other models.