Lactate Training

I listened to a podcast the other day from a trainer at Peak Performance. It made alot of sense. You can hear it at: http://switchpod.com/playing.php?action=view&id=9145&ftp=yes&fuser=gymskinz&puser=

The jist of it was that as an IM athlete you need to train your zone 1 to be higher and to train so that you can exercise at your lactate threshold longer. She made a good argument that for endurance athletes we spend too much time training in our Zone 2. During base the time is to focus on increasing you ability to go longer and faster in zone 1 and increase the time you can spend at your lactate threshold.

So today I ran. SLOWLY!!!! I ran slow enough that my HR never went over 144 beats per minute. I had to slow all the way down to 4.6 mph to stay under that but I tell you what I could have stayed there all day long.

I did have caffeine that morning which may have affected my HR upwards but my HR just standing was only 54 so it shouldn't have been that big of a factor.

I plan on looking into this more extensively over the next few days/week.