Morning!  Rode my bike on Sunday and got released to do everything non-impact by the surgeon, so I went to Pilates and walked 3 miles last night.  Bike ride tonight.  Started PT yesterday.

I am curious how much diet and or hydration plans into improving at MAF. I wouldnt say my diet is the best, I don't eat like a body builder. I eat out occasionally, maybe once a week. I would say I most eat fruit, sandwiches, meats and vegetables.  I do unfortunately drink soda. I probably don't drink enough water, but make sure I do while I am running, usually a liter or more during a hour run. If I am  not hydrated prior to a run would that affect my heart rate any? Some days I see an increase in heart rate by 5-8 beats per/minute at the same pace, on the treadmill with temperature being the same. Not sure exactly what causes this. Whether it is fatigue, lack of nutrition of what.

2/12/2017

6:37 AM

5.2 mi

1:25:17.65

16:25 mi-----HR11/140

I'm guessing it makes at least some difference.  I have no idea how much.  From what I understand it is most important to not consume carbs before training to increase your chances of it being an exercise in fat burning.

I do think a number of factors go into why some days you are just plain slower at the same pace (accumulated fatigue, etc)

I am curious how much diet and or hydration plans into improving at MAF. I wouldnt say my diet is the best, I don't eat like a body builder. I eat out occasionally, maybe once a week. I would say I most eat fruit, sandwiches, meats and vegetables.  I do unfortunately drink soda. I probably don't drink enough water, but make sure I do while I am running, usually a liter or more during a hour run. If I am  not hydrated prior to a run would that affect my heart rate any? Some days I see an increase in heart rate by 5-8 beats per/minute at the same pace, on the treadmill with temperature being the same. Not sure exactly what causes this. Whether it is fatigue, lack of nutrition of what.

Did MAF Test #2 today.  I've been running MAF since about June of last year, but would forget to do a test or have wonky issues with my watch or heart rate monitor or even the treadmill that my results were scattered. I decided to start over and took first test last month.   Here are the results.

 

 

Following a 15 min warmup to sub MAF:

 

January:

 

Time      Avg HR    High HR

1.  11:19        141          149

2.  11:54         142          147

3.  12:00         142          146

4.   12:00        139          144

5.   12:00        137           140

 

 

February:  Today's test was almost  a disaster. I pressed the lap button after the first mile and it went skipped to my cool down. Because of this I wasn't able to capture all of the data and I only did 4 miles.

 

1.   10:44     139

2.   11:05      143

3.   11:19     141

4.    11:07    144

I'd be tempted to do another test after you have a chance to recover just so you can line all the data up properly and then do the same comparisons with next month.  Having said that, wow that is lot of improvement.  Whatever it is that you are doing, seems to be working!

5 mile recovery walk.No hrm..

On Day 4 post surgery, I biked.

On Day 6, I went back to Pilates.

On Day 15, the PT let me run at therapy.

On Day 19, I ran/walk 5.5.

I'm BACK!