Injuries For newbies (Read 1067 times)

 You really can carry on a conversation all the way to 180?  Wow I guess every body is different.  Just currious have you measured your resting and max heart rates?  I would be curious what those are.

 

 

I think the common diffention of an "easy run" is one that after you are done, you are still feeling good enough that if you had to you could run the same distance again  right away.

He said in an earlier post that is resting is down to 47 and had a max of 202. I'm having a hard time believing he can carry on a conversation with a HR in the low 180's, but maybe he's a man of few words .Since he just started running, I'd say he is not sure what an easy conversational pace really is and only THINKS that is what he is doing. That is something thats hard to grasp when you are just starting out.

I always thought "conversational" is a tricky way to describe it, because the interpretation can be vague.  I spent years running what I thought was an easy, conversational pace, only to later realize how much slower I should have been running, and how much easier it is to improve that way.

180 out of 202 (89%) is almost certainly too fast for an easy run. 

At this stage in your training, there is very little benefit in running faster.  What you need is to run more: more time, more miles.  Faster paces won't help you get better faster, they will only increase the chance that you'll get hurt and stall your progress. 

I bet if you stayed below 75% of max (151), you would be able to steadily ramp up your mileage week after week, and by the end of the summer you would be an aerobic machine.  And you'll get faster.  Much faster.