So I did in fact manage to go out to the YMCA and do my tempo run. .5 mi warm up in 5min, 3mi @ 8:57 pace in 26:53, .5mi cool in 5 min. I was supposed to do 1 mile warm up but I always feel like I waste my energy on them. At the end of the 3 mile tempo, I checked my pulse and it was 179. Wow, that's high.Then tonight was another step class and we checked our pulses twice. 132 and 121. It was more difficult at the very beginning so I think I was stopping a lot more trying to follow the teacher. I almost got discouraged.
Afterwards, I went down to do the workout express circuit. Then I walked by another workout room and I saw the same teacher lady doing another step workout! She's crazy insane!!
But I've been thinking more and more of my heart rate lately. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm thinking of getting the Garmin Heart Rate strap. So I checked my heart rate numbers today.
Resting heart rate is 54. I did it twice just to make sure that it was that really low.
Max heart rate is 192.
LT (tempo run) should be at 85% of 192 = 172. So I was a bit on the higher side the other day.
Here's an Excel spreadsheet that you can plug in the numbers. (Let's hope it works)
Check it out and try it out. I hope the heart rate thing will help with Tempo Runs. Check out this blog for more information.
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