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alehouse Sep 2024 1:26pm, 8 Sep 2024 290 posts	Quote Pin alehouse Hope you are OK, leg-wise, @NZD ! Far too technical for me, @Canute ! I do note, however, that my Garmin says that my v02 may has declined from 52 to 43 over the last six months of inactivity. I ran the GNR once, I think in 1996. I started far too far back, in the correct pen(!), in the days before chip timing. It took me four miles to get into my running and to stop passing clowns, and others in fancy dress. 41 minutes for the first ten km, then 41 for the next eleven. Hope you went well, @OO62 ! 1 minute jog, then 2, 1, 2, 1. 2,1 for a total of ten slow minutes. Progress, although my shins were saw. Wordle in four yesterday and today.
alehouse Sep 2024 1:47pm, 8 Sep 2024 291 posts	Quote Pin alehouse Actually just checked vO2 after today's exercise: down to 42! Which reminds me that in January my RHR was 42, and now is over 50.
Canute Sep 2024 2:33pm, 8 Sep 2024 2,966 posts	Quote Pin Canute @alehouse Sorry for the excessive technical detail about VO2 max. In my view, the most important thing is that is a readily available output from sports watches that measure HR, and is a fairly good indicator of current aerobic fitness (and also predicts life-expectancy). Athletes and coaches have discovered by trial and error that a variety of different training programmes promote increase VO2 max. Unfortunately as both you and I have observed in recent times, decrease in VO2 max is aslo an indicator of loss of aerobic fitness due to injury or illness. The technical details of underlying physiology are not important in practice. However, understanding these technical details helps explain why there are several different indirect measurements based on pace and HR and these give somewhat differing results. The practical implication of this, is that it is a useful measurement if you measure it in a consistent way. One detail of the underlying physiology that I should have mentioned in my recent post is that we can increase the proportion of oxygen extracted from blood by increasing the activity of mitochondrial enzymes. In many studies of mechanism of action of training programmes, increase in mitochondrial enzyme activity is the main outcome measurement of interest.
Welshpoppy Sep 2024 2:55pm, 8 Sep 2024 4,460 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy Interesting topic indeed my Garmin gives me a VO2 max 43.I inputted my last race a half marathon and a slow time but it gave me a VO2 of 37! So I need to go faster and lose weight. Well done all at GNR! 60,000 runners my idea of hell on Earth. But I love watching it every year on TV. Achilles is still a pain .It was fine yesterday on run which was a little bit hillier.Today It would not let me run. Wordle in six
solo Sep 2024 5:57pm, 8 Sep 2024 1,120 posts	Quote Pin solo I liked all the information @Canute 🙂 I simply know when my Garmin VO2 goes up I am getting fitter which is always backed up by HR/pace. Too easy to lose fitness as we get older @alehouse but hopefully it will be nice to see the steps forward as you increase your exercise again. Rest sounds sensible @Welshpoppy and at least you had the GNR to watch. My race was tough today. Very warm and humid and I had forgotten how challenging the second half of the course is but all my hill running certainly helped 😊A very congested start as lots of slower runners using the faster pen and I found it difficult to get into a proper rhythm with dodging etc until the third mile. Pleased to overtake my two local rivals in the second half and win the FV60 category in 45.49. Stomach was pretty good too and although I was hoping to run faster I am over the moon to have won at this race!
Welshpoppy Sep 2024 6:31pm, 8 Sep 2024 4,462 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy @solo Well done on the win,especially good to hear tum behaved. I am sure you will be faster on a better course. What did you win?
alehouse Sep 2024 6:32pm, 8 Sep 2024 293 posts	Quote Pin alehouse Nice one, @Solo ! Well done!
Canute Sep 2024 7:10pm, 8 Sep 2024 2,967 posts	Quote Pin Canute Well done @Solo. Good to hear that you stomach behaved itself.
solo Sep 2024 8:03pm, 8 Sep 2024 1,121 posts	Quote Pin solo Thank you all, it is appreciated. @Welshpoppy last year I believe it was £75.00 for category winners but I haven't seen anything advertised this year so a case of wait and see!
OO61 Sep 2024 9:46am, 9 Sep 2024 265 posts	Quote Pin OO61 Fantastic running solo. I had a soggy gnr but ran well just under 1:24 and 2nd m60. Better than expected....