I must say that it is hard to keep it in the orange and not red...but when I do make the effort to keep it controlled, it makes a whole heap of difference to the rest of my day and my legs. The trick according to this trainer, is to keep it controlled without doing the run/walk thing...so important is rhythm...she says as the " km base" gets stronger, so the pace will come without pushing heart rate into red all the time. Bear in mind, im almost 50 and only been running 3 years, so with my running, I found I would get to a point and then get injured, that is why ive been told to build a strong running base with LSD runs based on heart rate zones, and 1 speed session of about 30 mins, which is a time trial or sprints within a chilled run. I have a fairly accurate idea of my max, which is not that far off the age one surprisingly.
