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Light showers here so went out in the lightest rain jacket I own. A mistake as it turns out because the rain died off to the occasional spot here and there and the jacket was just extra weight and extra heat.
Vision no worse than it was the other day, and HR of 133BPM post with 100BPM on 5 minutes post
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@voodoo said in Back for more!:
@NTA nice work, good improvement! Just looked at one of my runs from last week, got the heart rate up to 180, a couple above the old max rate calc. Yikes!
Reckon during run I'm probably hitting up to 150 but at this pace I'm not really pushing myself.
One day I might get one of those fancy watches @mariner4life drones on about. But I'll want to be running 5:00/km over distance to warrant that.
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@voodoo said in Back for more!:
@NTA nice work, good improvement! Just looked at one of my runs from last week, got the heart rate up to 180, a couple above the old max rate calc. Yikes!
Reckon during run I'm probably hitting up to 150 but at this pace I'm not really pushing myself.
One day I might get one of those fancy watches @mariner4life drones on about. But I'll want to be running 5:00/km over distance to warrant that.
Best investment you'll ever make. What do you currently use for measurement of pace and heart rate etc? I have the Garmin 935 and I can't exercise without it!
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@voodoo yeah I think they are great, my max HR sits higher than most on here, my resting has dropped an average of 4 or 5 while sleeping.
Were a couple of runs I did up the mountain PL (pre-lockdown) where my HR started tipping over 190 so I eased back a touch to keep it at or under 190.
Finished my flax clearing today and tured my watch on to record an 'unspecified activity' 40mins and my ave HR was 134 and max was 162, it reckoned I did 1.32km, I know I only moved about 6m haha
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Splits were 6:17, 6:00, 6:22
127BPM post
108BPM 5 minutes postFelt a lot harder to get going today, with a sore right calf and getting away closer to 7am than 6:30am.
Met the goal tho, and that is all that matters.
Weight is back around the 102kg mark due to shit eating but will start body weight on alternate days to tone the upper half.
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@voodoo said in Back for more!:
@NTA nice work, good improvement! Just looked at one of my runs from last week, got the heart rate up to 180, a couple above the old max rate calc. Yikes!
Reckon during run I'm probably hitting up to 150 but at this pace I'm not really pushing myself.
One day I might get one of those fancy watches @mariner4life drones on about. But I'll want to be running 5:00/km over distance to warrant that.
I couldn't disagree more. Now is the perfect time to purchase so you can more accurately track your improvement.
5 min kms over a distance is a long way away from where you are ... if you wait til then, you'll probably find you won't improve much more!
I second the Garmin too, but note you don't need to spend as much as you might think. For this first time in my life, I bought the base model and ignored all the extra stuff that I in all likelihood wouldn't use. Set me back under 200 pounds, and it's an absolute bargain. Currently coming in at around a pound per run, and getting cheaper every day. I used to use an apple watch, and although the presentation is much nicer, the accuracy was rather generous. The loop around my house measures on google maps at 5.25km, Apple watch had it at 5.4km and the Garmin at 5.2km.
You won't regret it mate, but you will if you wait until you are seriously fit to buy it- you'll be wondering why you didn't buy it earlier ...
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@MajorRage dunno. Have enough numbers in my life. HR isn't going to be that important until it reaches zero
And $500 for a watch I have to keep charging seems a little steep...
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Anyway tonight I did a bit of body weight, and I mean a bit - totally fucked after three rounds of chinups, pushups, squats with one minute breaks.
First set: 3 chinups, 10 pushups, 20 squats
Second: 3 chinups, 8 pushups, 20 squats
Third: 2 chinups, 5 pushups, 20 squatsFark. Not the best.
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HR
130BPM post
92BPM about 8 minutes later (got distracted)Splits were
6:04
6:02
6:42
Last km hurt a bit due to last night's squatsBit of vision issue but recovered quickly. Might need to just keep pushing through that using moderate pace, and see if being fitter and lighter alleviates things
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@MajorRage dunno. Have enough numbers in my life. HR isn't going to be that important until it reaches zero
And $500 for a watch I have to keep charging seems a little steep...
Just on this, in case you've never heard of DC Rainmaker, it's a great resource for product reviews, he does kit at all price levels
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
Today's exercise was fucking around on a roof, removing ancient concrete tiles, in order to run some cabling for Mrs TA and her brother at Dead Grandad's estate.
Physical labouring makes me glad I'm a desk jockey.
And her brother? What, he’s got one leg or something?
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@Catogrande said in Back for more!:
@NTA said in Back for more!:
Today's exercise was fucking around on a roof, removing ancient concrete tiles, in order to run some cabling for Mrs TA and her brother at Dead Grandad's estate.
Physical labouring makes me glad I'm a desk jockey.
And her brother? What, he’s got one leg or something?
He's unfit and does not do well with ladders. TBF he has done a shitload of the work inside, ruined his back doing it.
To your point: I am going to be glad when we're done. And there better be some serious thankyou-sex from the wife when it is sold.
Failing that, her Mum and Uncle could both get struck down by COVID and leave the profits of sale to us.
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@Catogrande said in Back for more!:
@NTA said in Back for more!:
Today's exercise was fucking around on a roof, removing ancient concrete tiles, in order to run some cabling for Mrs TA and her brother at Dead Grandad's estate.
Physical labouring makes me glad I'm a desk jockey.
And her brother? What, he’s got one leg or something?
He's unfit and does not do well with ladders. TBF he has done a shitload of the work inside, ruined his back doing it.
To your point: I am going to be glad when we're done. And there better be some serious thankyou-sex from the wife when it is sold.
Failing that, her Mum and Uncle could both get struck down by COVID and leave the profits of sale to us.
I have to admit, I wondered where you were going as your penultimate paragraph segued into the last!
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HR
124BPM post
107BPM post 5 minutesIt was mentally tough to go through the 2km mark and not turn back up the 3km route, however I felt better once I passed 3km on this route as it flattens out and you can see all the idiots coming.
Splits 6:40, 6:35, 6:50, 6:52, 7:00 - a reflection of the pace I was trying to keep on my first 5km in months
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