HR trainning

How did you work out your max HR?  Why do you choose to stay at 70%?

 Certain parts of your body can adapt faster than others.  The muscles in your legs adapt quickly, but tendons, joints and bones will take time.  Your heart takes more time as well.  They'll catch up in time.  Don't rush to injure yourself!

It takes alot of discipline to go slow!  Inherently,  we always take the "no pain, no gain" approach - and that's what leads to injuries.

 The general advice seems to be as follows:-

Do 80% of your running at easy/slow pace and, working up to long runs, where the gaol is to develop an efficient aerobic base, and train the body to burn fuel more efficiently.

 Do the other 20% at much harder anaerobic pace, where the goal is to develop the ability for the body to sustain harder work outs for longer periods of time and develop speed.

 Most of us,  myself included,  fall into the trap of doing most of our training somewhere in between.  Old habits die hard. 

 Check out www.runnersword.co.uk  where they have a "training pace" calculator.

I am currently running slower to build up.  I find it really boring, but the next day at work my kness are not hurting as I climb stairs and screen guards.  My remaining belly is actually dropping faster and I just generally feel better.

I also have the urge to just move faster, but all these experianced runners seem to say the same about slowing down and building up, so we should stick to it.

Joe

 http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=25733&posts=369#M1692448

You should check out this thread for a pretty simple way to determine your lactate threshold (LT).  I was using the other method for a while until I did the LT test and determined that I was training w/ my HR too high.