Today I ran a Lactate Threshold test on my Garmin 5s. I did this last year in April when I was training for Ogden marathon. I planned on seeing an improvement today based on my current fitness. While it didnt catch my LT today becuase it strugged to find my HR for the second to last interval, I pretty much have to do the test again to find that number I'm looking for. However, It did capture other data that is exciting.
April 18 2018. March 26 2019
Best split- 6:42min/mi 6:22min/mi
Avg HR- 173 bpm 165 bpm
MAX HR- 191 bpm 196 bpm
Marathon prediction- 3:07:24 3:00:04
I'm thrilled with the progress I have made over the past 8 weeks, espeically lately. It's been fun watching my numbers come down and see my fitness improving. I went back and looked at my runs from the beginning of the year and compared similar current runs and have found a few interesting discoveries that I want to document for my records.
My effort based on my HR to cover the same distance of 8 mi/ 8:30 pace started in January at 90 suffer score (Strava Summit) and is now 32, meaning I have adapted quite a bit. For my long runs of 15 miles, it has dropped from. 165 to 124. My average HR has also dropped about a beat per week overall. where I used to average around 160-165 (depending on distance but similar effort) in January and now average 148-157 for the same distance and pace.
Good things are happening. Just got to keep it together for a few more weeks!
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