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Wow! Congratulations!!! My wife and I are celebrating our 5th year anniversary tomorrow

That's a pretty common understanding/belief. I myself thought this to be true until recently. Well, it is true to some degree. The giant base of low intensity training allows you to build enough capacity to take on the intensity training. I think of it like a car and the amount of RPMs that you can rev to before you hit redline. Little base is like a car with a 6500 RPM limit. You can wind it up to get speed out of it but it tops out pretty quickly. With a lot of base training you are pushing that capacity, that RPM limit, out to say a Ferrari like 9800 RPM. With that base, you have more room to wind it up and when you're at 6500, which was previously your top end, you can maintain that speed (and more) without much effort.

Hope that makes sense.

There are other benefits to low intensity training as well like buidling your aerobic engine, training your body to burn fat as fuel instead of carbs, building muscle capilary density, building your heart's ability to pump oxygen rich blood to your muscles, etc.

Congrats Caius and Terry!  My hubby and I will be celebrating 10 years on May 1.  On that day, we'll be checking in to a hotel with our kids, in Vancouver!  I've signed up for the Vancouver Marathon on May 3!! 

My son actually wanted me to run a marathon in each of Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Toronto! 

Terry & Caius - a belated congrats on the anniversaries.

Tracy - way to go, taking the plunge and signing up for the marathon.  I'm thinking about a full in May, but may instead do the Around the Bay 30K.  I'll need to make up my mind.

I'm very close to joining a gym.  I didn't think I'd do that, but with winter approaching I don't have another way to access a treadmill if the weather is rough outside.  I'll make my decision this week.

Thanks for the info on the HRMs folks.  I'm looking at the Garmin Forerunner 305. I'll keep researching others though.

great info on the HRM's I ordered a Polar after debating it for a few weeks but it has some features I like so thats what I went with.  Congratulations on the anniversaries , my husband and I celebrated 27 years in August this year.  I have a 5K race this weekend, I got a team together at work to do it with me as a team. All the proceeds go to breast cancer research .  The weather is really cooling down around here, I think winter is on its way !

Have a good week !!

Timmeh - the Garmin may say that it is water resistant on their site, but they also tell you not to submerge it in more than 1 meter of water.  Essentially it is not waterproof, and the instructions that come with it specifically state not to swim with it.  That said I've certainly seen posts from other people who say they swim with theirs on.  Not sure how much money they have lying around, but I'm not going to do something to void my warranty.

However - I did swim with it.  I placed it inside a couple of ziplock bags and stuck it under my swim cap.  The first time I tried this it didn't really work since I didn't hit the start button correctly.  But the second time, I got some very useable data from an open water swim, even though it was under my swim cap - and I set it to record every 100M.  I didn't use it more often because my open water swim actually has some evenly spaced poles in the middle of the lake that someone had measured with a laser guide - so I just used my waterproof Timex.  But next year I do plan to use it more in the open water.  However, I won't race with it.  Too nervous about something happening with all the legs and arms + it would slow me down in transition.

I live in the burbs, so I don't really have any tall buildings around, and only occasionally do I run through wooded areas.  But I've never had a problem with the signal.  When I ran the 1/2 last week I was surrounded by tall buildings and I did lose the signal just a couple of times for a second or two, but other than that no issues.  But I could hear some other guys Garmin constantly losing the signals - not sure if he also had a 305 or an older model.

Even though it's not waterproof, I still love it and it's the best piece of kit I've bought so far.

Timmeh - I believe the sales guy is full of it.  The 405 is built the same as the 305, in that neither are designed for swimming. 

Neil

It is supposed to snow something like 6 in. on Saturday, I have a 5k that morning ...burrrr not used to the cold yet!!  Winter will be here before I know it. I have already started doing my workouts in the gym instead of outside with the change in weather. 

Have a good weekend everyone !

Hey Kristina - www.Spinervals.com has some great DVDs on it.

Tim - I was reading on the Garmin 305 website and it stated that the 305 acquired signals much quicker than the 205, like Tracey said.  It also said that buildings and trees didn't affect the 305.  I'm really leaning towards the 305 with the bicycle cadence attachment.  If I do go that route, I may get an inexpensive wrist HRM for schwimming.

Snow already?! Wow!!!

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Columbus Day to all my Canadian and American friends respectively.

Hope you're all getting in a couple of extra workouts to offset the extra food that's too be eaten this weekend

We're running a 5k this weekend; our 11 year old and I.  Well, he'll be 12 on Saturday when we run the race.  They are encouraging everyone to wear Halloween costumes.  Should be a blast!  http://www.irunfortheparty.com/view_race.php?id=3

 You're lucky to have missed that snow!  It missed us as well but Montana and Saskatchewan got absolutely hammered.  Toronto and area, on the other hand, had summer.  We were somewhere in between!  Great job motivating your co-workers!

Kristina, I have used a number of Coach Troy Jacobson's DVDs (it's actually called Spinervals as noted above) on my trainer and enjoy them.  There are both 'virtual reality' such as his Autumn Ride and 'drill' type DVDs.  Both are good and motivating, at least for me.