Thanks for sharing this post - so awesome and exactly along my lines of thinking and race planning. As I head into IMMD with the plan of racing on low sugar/calories and more fat burning - HR is my key metric. Need to keep my HR in check so I only need to supplement with fewer calories on the bike and run. Love the start of bike analogy and even if you don't make up that mile it will only take less than 3 minutes to cover so you are only adding 3mins at most to your bike. I need to remember this! Before EN I was following Mark Allen plans and we all know his thoughts on this. I always watch HR and power/pace, but I need to be better following your advice of lowering it out of the swim and keeping it down at the start of the run.
Love it. I would even go so far as to say on race day I really never looked at power or pace, just HR to make sure it was where it was supposed to be, based on all the information I had gathered on all the work before the race. As it turned out, my watts were higher than in previous races with a lower VI than when I was trying to work to a watt number. A great weapon come race day.
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Thanks for sharing this post - so awesome and exactly along my lines of thinking and race planning. As I head into IMMD with the plan of racing on low sugar/calories and more fat burning - HR is my key metric. Need to keep my HR in check so I only need to supplement with fewer calories on the bike and run. Love the start of bike analogy and even if you don't make up that mile it will only take less than 3 minutes to cover so you are only adding 3mins at most to your bike. I need to remember this! Before EN I was following Mark Allen plans and we all know his thoughts on this. I always watch HR and power/pace, but I need to be better following your advice of lowering it out of the swim and keeping it down at the start of the run.