training paces, revisited

My Mom and I were talking about heart rate the other day (she has been trying out a friend’s HRM) so I did a search back through my archive to find what I’d posted here. And actually, the garmin allows you to store ‘zones’ for training, and so I want to define those to maximize my training. Obviously things could change based on tonight’s race (if I can push past 197bpm), but probably not by too much.

Garmin lists 5 Heart Rate Zones. I’ve defined:

1: < 153 (70% - for use on easy days) .. 4: > 175 (85%)
5: > 182 (90%)

There are also 10 Pace Zones. These ones you can assign labels to.

For the ones with races assigned as labels, I am trying to prevent myself from going out too fast. The idea is that if it’s beeping, I should slow down.. at least for the fist 3/4s of the race 😉

I am trying to decide how best to set up the LT training paces, etc. I don’t want to psychmyself out if I am having trouble meeting a pace. Yet, I suppose that’s the point of training, isn’t it? I will prob give myself a 15 sec window…

1. “LTtraining” 7:10 – 7:40 (goal is 7:24)
2. “MPtraining” 7:30 – 8 (goal is 7:47… not really 😉
3. “5ktraining” 6:45 – 7:15 (goal is 7:00)
   ..
4. “5K” <6:30 10.”Mile” <6:00