HRM Question for Olympic Distance

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2009-07-14 5:02 PM

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Subject: HRM Question for Olympic Distance
I've been using HRM for training for past few weeks but I don't have any experience with it in race.  In Olympic distance, what would be appropriate % range to target for bike and run?  I've got a pretty good fix on my swim pace/exertion from prior history in that sport, but am not very good on listening to my body in run races (which usually means an ugly finish)..so I was hoping to use HRM and work within given range to finish stronger.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated (or if there have been prior message or articles dealing with this, could you please point me in the right direction).   Thanks

2009-07-14 9:41 PM
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Subject: RE: HRM Question for Olympic Distance

Olympic distance race, theoraticaly speaking, for FOP Age Grouper is a Z4-5a effort. If you trained for it in that fashion, than that is your target zone for bike and run. If you have not trained on the bike to sustain 40k TT in Z4-5a and still able to run 10k in Z4-5a, than you should scale it down to whatever you can sustain for duration of the race. Look at your logs and check on data from some of the race simulations you have done. That is your celing for performance.

If you want procentage wise, I am guessing LTHR is 88-92%, which corresponds to Z5a.

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