Comments on: A Happy Tuesday

By: Happy Taper « To Badwater

Happy Taper « To Badwater — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:55:32 +0000

[...] early on. Yikes. (Interestingly, though, an article Joe linked to this article in a comment on Flo’s blog, shows my target weight as 161. But, I don’t agree with that. Maybe that’s a post for [...]

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing all that HR stuff. It’s easy to get carried away with it because it seems like it SHOULD be a very cut-and-dry way to measure fitness. As long as you are feeling strong and not overtrained then never fear!

By: BarbBQ

BarbBQ — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:06:37 +0000

I’m so glad you left monkey-spazz-land. I like my HRM and sometimes I even look at the data, but I do think it can be too easy to get wrapped around the axle on that particular data point. And with the well-known interaction between stress and HR/BP, I can easily see a blip turning into a spiral into spazzing. You know, you see a few high numbers and start to worry about it, which makes it stay high, etc. At least I KNOW that’s what would happen to me if I spent any more time on it than a cursory post-run glance.

Maybe you should just ditch the damn thing for the following 2.5 weeks. No numbers, no stress!

By: Jim E

Jim E — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:42:14 +0000

LOL on the monkey-spazzing. I suppose the lesson is that you should only believe heart-rate if there is strong supporting evidence. Careful on the weight loss. Cookies are carbs, too

By: BlackBear

BlackBear — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:44:43 +0000

2.5 weeks! WOOHOOO. When can we officially start becoming geek weather nerds?

By: Mir

Mir — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:41:48 +0000

Yay, she is the same weight as me! Now, if only I was an hour faster. Seriously though, I’m glad you found her blog, and I’m about to go have a look too. It’s so inspiring to read stuff like that.

So, no more spazzing, right? LOL.

By: Flo

Flo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:34:01 +0000

I loved my HR monitor when it was giving me readings I liked, lol. I still love it and think it’s a great tool but yes, it can be a distracting focus, though now that I see what I’m dealing with is normal, I will calm down about it. Another forum pal on the sub3:20 thread said his HR rises at the end of his race cycles too, so I just needed to hear it from another source as well.

As for the weight, no worries about loss of energy, we’re only talking 3lbs. and that’s from cutting out crap food, so if anything, the machine will be running cleaner.