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Why do you want your HR down to 135? That is quite low for you and might not even give you a good training effect. Even if you used Maffetone's formula of 180-age, which i think is low....you get 142. If you've been running for awhile, add 5 to that for 147. That would be your top number, so your range would be 137-147. Now looking at what you think might be your max HR and you don't say what your resting is, so let's say 55 as an example. 205 (max) -55 (resting) = 151. That's your base number... 151 x .7 = 105.7 + 55 (add back the resting) = 160.7! Training at 70% MHR is considered a good HR for building your aerobic base. 60% would be 145.6....that's considered a very low training pace and used for recovery from races and hard workouts. You could run most of your workouts at 146, but i wouldn't go much lower than that. Most coaches would tell you to train at 70-75%, which for you would be 161-168!! So don't go TOO low or you won't be training hard enough...if you do really want to train low just use Maffetone's zone of 137-147. A typical workout would be starting easily, slowly ramping up to 137 and somewhere in the middle of the run you would be at 147, hold that for a bit and in the last 15 min's of your workout, start ramping it back down to 137, walking the past 5 minutes. Good luck! Steve