My run this morning confirmed what I already knew - the heart rate zones that are the focus of the training plan for Vineman are completely out of whack for me. With that knowledge in hand, I went out and did some research and came across a great
site and in-depth article on heart rate training zones. The site actually includes a
calculator that can also be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. I pulled it down, input the numbers (which include resting heart rate (RHR) as well as max) and this is what it spit out:
I immediately went back into Training Peaks and my Garmin Training Center and started to update each zone. What was most interesting was that I actually hit "Restore Defaults" in Training Center and, based on my max and RHR values, it spit out almost exactly the same numbers as the spreadsheet. Nothing quite like good validation. Now I can go and run without feeling like I need to run at a ridiculously slow pace to maintain what were ridiculously low heart rate zones.
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