Lies and untruths

All excited about my run this morning. In fact, within 5min of getting up, I was hyped and almost out through the door. This is whilst dawn was breaking and temperatures have not started their daily climb. Nothing beats this for a morning run. The HRM was ready and so was I.

Today would be an easy 7k effort, to recover from the long run and intervals over the weekend. This HRM thingy is addictive, because I kept wanting to look at it every few steps. Within 1k, I had gone up to my "easy" zone heart rate. I'm not surprised by this because the heart rate climbs quickly on a run. 1.5k into the run and I was over the "easy" zone, into the "moderate" zone.

The HRM is meant for me to learn my pace, and to regulate my effort. I doubt I will be using it on every run because the chest strap is all too uncomfortable; and I never intended it to be used every time. I deliberately told myself to go easy through this 7k and I really felt I did; I was breathing a little but all in, it was a easy 7k. What was surprising is that the HRM told me I was in the 90% range (average) and had hit a high of 95%. So either my max heart rate is wrongly calibrated - unlikely since I got the number through an interval effort (and that took a lot out of me), or I am needing to slow down.

Oh well, sometimes technology messes you up. Or that my "easy" effort is really my "hard", which explains why I have been feeling poorly fairly lately because this is the cumulation of the year's running at "hard".

The LSD at "easy" tomorrow evening is next and I'll have a better picture then.