Forums >Running 101>Wow - I just got a heart rate monitor and I have to run/walk to keep my heart rate in the zones it's supposed to be in.
Goals: 1. Finish One Hour Runner Program 2. Train for and run a 10K in late winter 3. Run a half in late spring 4. Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco, Oct 2009
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Have others experienced this? I was surprised at how I have to slow down... Any preferences on a training program to get back into shape? Or advice?
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius
Thanks for the advice, everyone. P.S. Isn't it amazing what good shape we were in as kids/teens? I had no idea at 16 or 17 that I was in the best shape of my life! I could climb our 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado no problem, ski, whatever - then as a lazy twenty-something I would try to go ski/climb 14er's and be weak and seeing stars from lack of anaerobic conditioning! The I-did-sports-as-a-kid-but-then-was-a-total-slob-in-my-20's is a story I am hearing from a lot of people...
A Saucy Wench
no kidding... if you ask people in their 30's who have been timed many years ago what they can run for a 2-mile time they will probably say "oh I'm out of shape... I bet it would take me 13 or 14 minutes". Then they find out it takes them almost 20 and get bummed out as they are practically puking to make that time.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
I've got a fever...
Thanks for the advice, everyone. I am aware of the problems with the max HR age-based methods - maybe I will go get a VO2 test. The old age-based methods served me pretty well when I was a very serious competitive swimmer in my teen years and my current max isn't too far off of that, so I am not too worried about being one of those individuals who is way off of what the formulas predict. But it would be nice to know what a test could tell me.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Best advice at this point is to not worry about HR -- focus on running at a pace where you would feel comfortable having a conversation.