How good is your zone 2 base?
Old age seems to have crept up on me a bit. I never had a lot of spare time when working to read and learn all the finer details on training techniques. I thought I ran easy most of the time at a talking pace and just did a harder parkrun and maybe a few intervals during the week.
But after reading a bit of Philip Maffetone’s Endurance training book. I decided to try and do some training within his 180 minus your age zone 2. Previously I thought my easy zone was about 130 and it probably got even higher on hills or if I got excited.
This new calculation has my easy zone as 122 and at the start I struggled to keep my heart under that number. It does not help that my neighbourhood is full of rolling hills but I have kept at it for a couple of weeks now and I have already seen a little bit of improvement. Enough improvement to keep going with this method for a while.
This type of training seems way too slow but it is supposed to help build a better base to my fitness pyramid and leave me fresher. I suppose the faster I can run in zone 2 burning fat will definitely help in the long run.
It looks like they have been working on the base of some of the fire trails in the nature reserve too.
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