4km Speed Work by marctan at Garmin Connect – Details

4km Speed Work by marctan at Garmin Connect – Details.

Forerunner 310XT vs RS300X

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Its time I get myself a proper heart rate monitor after the cheapo version died on me a few months ago. After looking through all options, I think it boils down to these 2 choices- its either a Garmin Forerunner 310XT or a Polar RS300X.

Out of all the available choices, these are the only heart rate monitors that allows the user to measure their heart rate while swimming which is a good thing for biathlon training. I am not particularly partial to either design. In fact I find most heart rate monitors to be quite lacking in this department. The only design that I find appealing is the Forerunner 610 which however is not waterproof.

Both comes with GPS, ability to sync with your computer, speed/ distance monitor- the usual stuff. I think the biggest difference is probably the batteries. The garmin being a rechargeable type while the polar requires you to bring the watch to service center to get its batteries changed on a yearly basis.

Choices, choices…

A New Fitness Milestone.

Today I hit a new fitness milestone. I have successfully reduced my resting heart rate to 49.

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According to wikipedia, Miguel Indurain, a 5 time Tour de France winner actually had a resting heart rate of 29 beats per minute! Incredible.

Men
Age
 18-25 26-35 36-45 46-55 56-65 65+
Athlete
 49-55 49-54 50-56 50-57 51-56 50-55
Excellent
 56-61 55-61 57-62 58-63 57-61 56-61
Good
 62-65 62-65 63-66 64-67 62-67 62-65
Above Average
 66-69 66-70 67-70 68-71 68-71 66-69
Average
 70-73 71-74 71-75 72-76 72-75 70-73
Below Average
 74-81 75-81 76-82 77-83 76-81 74-79
Poor
 82+ 82+ 83+ 84+ 82+ 80+

Biathlon Training

As far as warm-up training goes- I would consider last week to be pretty successful. Started with 14 laps in the pool on Tuesday night, went up to 24 on Friday and eventually increased it to 26 laps on Saturday.

So begins the actual training this week.

  1. Mon- Weight training, 8km run.
  2. Tues- 30 laps- endurance training.
  3. Wed- Weight training, 4km speed run.
  4. Thurs- Rest.
  5. Fri- 30 laps, 8km run.
  6. Sat- Pool HIIT 6-8 sets.
  7. Sun- Rest.

Training Woes

Its the time of the year- the time to start training for the annual Singapore Biathlon. After not doing any long distance swimming for at least half a year, I tried last night only to have to give up after 14 laps because my right calf muscle was cramping up.

Looks like this is going to be harder than I expected.

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