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| # Posted 2007-01-16 07:16:08 | |
| Nadim: | I feel like intensity, being a subjective measure, changes under circumstance. Being already tired, pushing hard anyway but only mustering a speed which would normally constitute intensity 3 could be a 4 or more if you were intense about trying. |
| # Posted 2007-01-16 20:08:27 | |
| jtorranc: | I'll stipulate that perceived effort isn't an objective measure but I want to correlate with the level of output from and stess on my cardiovascular system rather than with the willpower required to persevere since I think it's the former that determines the resulting physical training effect (no comment on the willpower training effect, though perhaps that's also something I ought to focus on). |
| # Posted 2007-01-17 07:08:09 | |
| Nadim: | Another way of saying what I intended is that with an already stressed cardiovascular system you can be working it as hard as you would during intensity 4 and still end up with a non-stressed intensity 3 pace. Lacking the portable heart and lung monitoring hardware, perceived pushing, and race splits are what you have left to go by. |
| # Posted 2007-01-17 21:24:46 | |
| jtorranc: | Maybe I'm wrong on the physiology but that doesn't sound right to me in the context of what I perceive as the primary reason to keep track of my training. To take an extreme illustrative example, I don't think I would get the same training effect by running intervals slowly while sick as I do by running them at my usual pace while fresh and healthy no matter how identically difficult the effort felt. Though if I viewed my log as primarily a tracking tool to help me avoid overtraining, I probably would just go with my perceptions. |
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