I have a question regarding heart rate zones. Since I don't yet have a power meter I have to use heart rate to estimate my LT. My question is that I have read many different ways to estimate it. Carmicheal has you do two 3 mile all out time trials(about 8 minutes) and take your highest average. He then uses this to determine othr zones. Friel and Coggan seem to use longer tests(30 minutes for Friel and a 40k TT for Coggan) It seems that my HR will be alot higher on the shorter tests and I worry about training too hard. On the other hand, the ranges suggested by Friel and Coggan can be nearly 20 BPM broad and this sometimes seems too easy when I do Tempo. So any advice on setting zones based on HR(I know its inferior to power but I'm poor)would be greatly appreciated.