trotamundos

throwing up

Actually felt a bit sick during the run on Saturday. Was only 40 minutes

retired_sander

Felt ill a few times whilst running which i've never pinned down to any specific cause other than perhaps eating too soon before a race but i thought that was unlikely as i've had a similar upset stomache when not running.

trotamundos

I think with me it's just the change to a different form of exercise. All I've mostly done is football 3-4 times a week. That isn't really helpful when tackling distance running. My body just not used to it at all, and I've found even simple runs (we are talking 20-25 minutes) actually pretty tough.

retired_lavely3

Funnily enough, I threw up at the end of a race just after hitting my MHR (196).

The most common theory with a HRM is that you should never work "hard" on consecutive days, with "hard" defined as over 70% of your working heart rate (as Bagpuss explained). Every other day you run as close to 70% as possible, but not above it. The idea is to prevent burnout, raise your mileage without getting injured and to increase your running economy (the speed you can run at without having to work too hard). I've got a book that explains it much better than that, but can't be bothered to find it to copy the explaination out right now!

People generally find that for the first month or so, they don't feel like they're getting results - you have to go slower than you'd expect on slow days, but after that results do generally come.

Obviously, there's a lot more you can do with them - your HR'll rocket if you're under the weather and shouldn't be running for example, or you can keep track of your HR over a series of runs on the same distance along with your time (if HR goes down and speed goes up then you're getting fitter) - but that's the basic idea.

retired_sander

www.runnersworld.co.uk and
www.fetcheveryone.com are the two main sites i use

Fetch site lets you record all your runs etc so you can keep track of performances as you get better.

http://www.micknphil-marathonlads.co.uk/ should be an inspiration to any slackers to get running. I am hopefully gonna run with Mick around a half marathon route in Cumbria in a few weeks.

trotamundos

I don't even time myself atm.

Just concentrate on getting round without slowing to a walk

retired_sander

Thats one advantage of my watch, i can tell how fast i am going so if its too fast i can slow down. Also very handy at recording splits for me.

retired_lavely3

Thats one advantage of my watch, i can tell how fast i am going so if its too fast i can slow down. Also very handy at recording splits for me. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Garmin ftw

retired_sander

305 Forerunner for me, also have a Garmin Sat Nav for the car.

trotamundos

These things cost hard cash though