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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
Redball:
The commitment is more important than the frequency.
Next week may be a little harder for me: On the road Monday to visit my daughter in Nyack NY and some warm weather when I get there. I should run early Sunday, at least get a small jump on the week.
Aches and pains: Some in my old knees after I run, sometimes something or other in a hip, and one day I thought an Achilles tendon was trying to tell me something. But nothing persists, and the knees and hips were sending similar messages before I quit jogging 14 years ago. Heart rate usually maxes at about 120, and I could carry on a conversation with a fellow runner at any point in the run.
lepetitfromage:
My heart rate is pretty high...I've seen it at 180. The bizarre thing is that it's actually harder for me to run at a speed that would maintain a lower heart rate. I question whether I should worry or not, but I don't feel physically uncomfortable and I'm anxious in the first place so I'm thinking maybe anxiety + exercise = higher than "target" heart rate. Hmmm.
Redball:
The heart rate/exercise charts say 180 is a good aerobic rate in your 20s. Take a look if you haven't recently. It might ease your anxiety. I have a vague understanding of being unable to run more slowly to lower your heart rate. I wish I had a better understanding; it might mean I'd have the same enviable problem.
pwhodges:
The drugs they have given me following my heart attack mean that I have to work very hard to get my pulse up to 100; I only did it once in the 10 weekly gym sessions that they also gave me.
Redball:
That would be, or be like, my metoprolol -- since my stent. I take it in the morning and if I start out without it, my heart rate's a good deal higher.
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