Well the last few weeks I’ve been suffering with a broken Heart Rate Monitor and scales. The first one, my scales is giving me a bit of a nightmare. I have the Fitbit ones, they connect to the WiFi and log my weight, body fat and BMI. However they have stopped connecting to the WiFi and syncing data. This is naturally very frustrating. See them in action (several months ago).
I wrote to Fitbit and they put me in touch with their customer support centre and they gave me a complicated answer that to be honest needed a degree in computer nerdery to understand. Now I need to find someone who can help decipher the instructions for me. Please get in touch if you can :-). Now in typical fashion my Heart Rate Monitor that connects to my Garmin bike computer and running watch has stopped working. Really frustrating- I went out for a 40 min run and apparently my HR didn’t get above 79bpm, while my Fitbit said I was doing 149bpm. Fortunately I managed to source a replacement from my cycling club for half the price of new so happy Carl :-).
Zoe has worked out my training plan which now looks like this;
Monday – rest day
Tuesday – 40 min run
Wedsnesday – 1 hour cycle
Thursday – 40 min run
Friday – rest day
Saturday – 1 hour 20 min run
Sunday – strength and conditioning PT with Zoe
Tomorrow is the day I go out and try running to heart rate for the first time. I am going to do a 40 min run at zone 2 with a 5 min zone 3 effort. It’ll be interesting to see how I fair. Wednesday should be back on familiar ground as I was used to riding with HR when I trained for the Marmotte in 2014.
Here’s a photo of me from last Saturday completing my 1hr 20min run where I completed 10.8km run my furthest yet. Also, this week I introduced Macros into my diet planning. For the past 5 months I’ve been reducing my calorie intake to the point that I’m now on 1900 kCals. The new one is slowly introducing macros, so I have to maintain the 1900 kCal while sticking to at least 35% protein make up in my daily intake. Day one complete, it is actually quite hard. But needs must…
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