I just read a quote from this Mark Allen (ironman) article, and i can't stop think about it. http://www.duathlon.com/articles/1460
I suppose I'm just asking about the old Dr Maffetone "train slower to get faster" thing.
http://www.rrca.org/publicat/slowdown.html
Mark Allen basically says in the article that he was training too hard as a runner until he got a HR monitor in the late 80s, then some dude call Maffetone told him to ONLY run at ~80% maxHR, which he did for four months. He says, after his body learnt to burn more fat, that:
"at the end of that period, my pace at the same heart rate of 155 (80% max) beats/minute had improved by over a minute. And after nearly a year of doing mostly aerobic training, which by the way was much more comfortable and less taxing than the anaerobic style that I was used to, my pace at 155 beats/minute had improved to a blistering 5:20 mile. "
so, his 80% run pace was an 8:15 minute mile, but, after ONLY training at 80%maxHR for a year, his 80% run pace dropped to a 5:20 minute mile!!!
Does this work on the bike?
I've heard this every now and then over the years, but, being a bit of a meathead, I've dismissed it. Maybe I've been training too hard all these years!!!
I suppose I'm just asking about the old Dr Maffetone "train slower to get faster" thing.
http://www.rrca.org/publicat/slowdown.html
Mark Allen basically says in the article that he was training too hard as a runner until he got a HR monitor in the late 80s, then some dude call Maffetone told him to ONLY run at ~80% maxHR, which he did for four months. He says, after his body learnt to burn more fat, that:
"at the end of that period, my pace at the same heart rate of 155 (80% max) beats/minute had improved by over a minute. And after nearly a year of doing mostly aerobic training, which by the way was much more comfortable and less taxing than the anaerobic style that I was used to, my pace at 155 beats/minute had improved to a blistering 5:20 mile. "
so, his 80% run pace was an 8:15 minute mile, but, after ONLY training at 80%maxHR for a year, his 80% run pace dropped to a 5:20 minute mile!!!
Does this work on the bike?
I've heard this every now and then over the years, but, being a bit of a meathead, I've dismissed it. Maybe I've been training too hard all these years!!!