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I've got a fever...
Best way to determine your Lactate Threshold HR is to do a time trial on a track. Warm up, then run for 10 minutes. Start recording, and run for another 20 minutes. Try to maintain the same pace. Your LTHR is the avearge HR at the end of the 20 minutes.
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I look up my predicted 15K pace with the McMillan calculator and use his tempo pace range as a goal. After a PR race - I see if it changes anything and start trying to move my pace down to the new range.
LT pace is about the pace you can hold for one hour. 5k pace is above LT pace.
These thread has descended into lactate geekery, so I might as well throw this one out there: RVLT (in meters/minute) = 509.5 – 20.82 X [3200-meter time in minutes] Divide the result into 1609.344 to convert to minutes per mile. Or you could run 20~30 minutes at a comfortably hard pace that you could probably sustain for 40~60 minutes.
Suspect Zero
Or you could run 20~30 minutes at a comfortably hard pace that you could probably sustain for 40~60 minutes.
Right, got that. Just trying to figure out if I was ok to move on to the next section of my training or if I should spend a little more time here.
So in other words I need to take a TI-85 to the track with me...great. I sold mine when I finished calculus in college...I knew I would need it again one day!
Or, you know, run by feel.
Which is pretty much what I do anyway.
Globule doesn't like that much. He's too geeky.
I am so deeply in touch with my inner geek that I attain a geeky, transcendent state of running fu wherein I can feel my lactate threshold. I can know my pace and my heart rate without even looking at my watch. It's quite bitchin', really.
Lazy idiot
There's a mom joke here, but I'll let it slide.
Tick tock
That's what the flour is for.