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Hadd's Approach To Distance Running

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Oct 2009 6:35pm, 11 Oct 2009 8,531 posts	Quote Pin UC, I think you can but it would be ideal to test as advised.
SPR™ Oct 2009 6:37pm, 11 Oct 2009 7,664 posts	Quote Pin SPR™ J "Oh, and Hadd's little MaxHR test (copied and pasted so the wording is out of context): Then (wearing his HRM) he was to run an all-out 800m and note the highest HR recorded on his monitor. He was to rest 2 mins and run an all-out 400m. The highest number he would see as he crossed the finish-line, we would take as his HRmax." Nice simple test for you to get a true max
Ultracat Oct 2009 6:37pm, 11 Oct 2009 7,177 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat well I have a marathon next weekend so not sure when its best to do the test, and I would like to start training as soon as after that.
Boab Oct 2009 6:38pm, 11 Oct 2009 5,625 posts	Quote Pin Boab No, you need to know your own ranges. Before Big Al embarked on this method of base training, I took him to a local hill coloqually known as heart attack hill and put him through 6 or 7 sprints up it with jogging back receoveries, if you could call them that. The point was to run each of them as hard as you could, not at a specific HR or pace, eye balls out, puking at the end hard. THe pace would drop off drastically after the first one, but that is ok, you are forcing yourself well outside your comfort zone. Big Al was on his knees praying to whoever he prays to at the end. Then there is also the test that Panda man suggests. I prefer the masochistic way THis method will work for you UC, there is no doubt about it. Pace is largely irrelavent, it will only tell you how well you are doing when you see that for a specific HR in six weeks time you will be running a lot quicker than you are now.
Boab Oct 2009 6:40pm, 11 Oct 2009 5,626 posts	Quote Pin Boab Best to be rested to do the HR max test UC, so wait a wee while after the marathon and have a rest day or two. You'll know when you are fully rested of course.
Ultracat Oct 2009 6:40pm, 11 Oct 2009 7,178 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat there are no shortage of hills not far from my house, why I live on the bottom of one.
Boab Oct 2009 6:41pm, 11 Oct 2009 5,627 posts	Quote Pin Boab Ideal then SPR, how did it go today?
eL Bee! Oct 2009 6:43pm, 11 Oct 2009 10,413 posts	Quote Pin eL Bee! SPR hardly broke sweat today
Boab Oct 2009 6:46pm, 11 Oct 2009 5,629 posts	Quote Pin Boab Typical of him then, eternal under achiever
eL Bee! Oct 2009 6:46pm, 11 Oct 2009 10,414 posts	Quote Pin eL Bee! He doesn't like pain much