runlongggg, when you use a heart rate monitor in races, do you slow drastically on uphills (to keep your heart rate at your target heart rate), or do you slow just a little bit on uphills (letting your heart rate go up a little bit higher than your target heart rate but not out of control)? also, sometimes i have found it is difficult to keep your heart rate at a pre-set level on downhills without flying -- do you let loose on downhills to try to keep your heart rate up at 170?
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I've trained with a heart rate monitor for 13 years now and the sudden rise in heart rate towards the end of a long run I believe is actually related to fiber recruitment as you tire. If you were to look at a graph of the heart rate while running at a constant speed you would see a steady climb which is dehydration. Then suddenly it starts to climb at a faster rate than before. If you were to pay close attention to how you were feeling at the time you would have probably noticed a bit of an increase in the effort, even while the pace stays the same. Normally as my training progresses and I'm getting fitter, this spike in heart rate won't happen as soon, or not at all. This is when you know your training is working!
The HRM is very useful especially on longruns and when you want to run temporuns. For the longrun you should keep your HR at 70% of your max HR? When You know your aerobic and anaerobic limits, it´s very easy to maintain the right pace. It´s vital to run every run at a certain HR. Too fast longruns are too demanding when done often and you don´t develop effective use of fats as a source of energy
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