How long does it take for your heart rate to be fairly steady? I have been doing HADD for about 2 weeks now and my heart rate is near impossible to stay within 10 BPMs without varying pace. It's ridiculous how jumpy it is.
I use an HR monitor with my garmin forerunner and the graph after my runs is always all over the place....
thanks in advance
Just to be clear, you're saying your HR is erratic at the same pace? Is it going up in a somewhat steady fashion, or simply bouncing up, down, seemingly at random.
If it's the former, then that's the sort of thing HADD is designed to fix. If it's the latter, perhaps your strap is wonky.
Any hills during that run?
Improved fitness will help limit the variation within (e.g., a delayed increase in HR over any rolling hills, etc), but it's next to impossible to limit any spikes altogether, even on a treadmill. Your heart responds to so many forms of stress that even a super deep breath in the midst of a steady effort can affect its rate, regardless of any other stress incurred.
But again, improved fitness (aerobically/metabolically) will help stabilize it to a degree; the HR won't 'jump' at the first sign of stress. More importantly though, you'll see on your graphs less decoupling within a long, steady effort (less HR drift, steadier pace, less slowing). Stick with familiar routes (loops ideally) to compare from week-to-week; this is where some real insight can be had/HADD!
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I have been doing HADD for about 2 weeks...
Patience. Aerobic fitness takes time. Some variation in HR is normal; but it looks like you are either running some hills in your run (and not slowing down for them) or you are not pacing as well as you think on the flats. Experience also takes time. Patience.
It doesn't look too wonky to me, just stick at it for a while and it should settle a bit. As well, keep in mind the terrain, weather, fatigue and fueling have great effect on HR as well.
Every time I do base work I like to think about the feeling Hadd said of being so fit you are able to 'run through walls'. In my experience it's true. Happy running.
Thanks everyone, I'll keep with it and see how it looks in a few months.
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