Welcome onto the next edition of Run with Coach Parry, I'm Brad Brown and we've
got the coach with us once again, Lindsey Parry.
Lindsey, howzit?
Very good thanks Brad, haven't chatted for a week.
Absolutely.
Lindsey, such a great question today and it's got to do with feedback on training sessions
and the best way to monitor things and whether you should be doing it on a session by session
basis or on an overall cycle basis, but we'll chat about that in just a second.
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Lindsey the question was in our forum and I think it's such a great one to talk about.
It's about tracking what you're doing and following what you're doing and should
you be analysing the living daylights out of every single session that you're doing
and what constitutes a successful training session?
Is it how you feel or a perception of how it went or is it about the numbers?
In your opinion, what's the best way, what's the metric of success on a training session?
Brad, the answer to that question is both.
I know that's not what people always want to hear.
They want to know some slightly more black and white answers, but it's really good
to look through all your sessions and understand what your body is doing and how it's feeling.
The reason I say both is because you don't want to get too caught up in one individual
session.
What we're rather doing is looking at patterns over two or three sessions that start to paint
us a picture of whether we're going in the right direction or the wrong direction.
Mostly around things like fatigue, we'd use, obviously, RPE, so how did I feel in
those sessions.
That would be one of the most important metrics, but taking into account how I feel versus
what speed did I run over the profile and have I run that profile before?
What does my heart rate look like, what does it look like compared to previous sessions
on the same day and with reasonably similar conditions.
Even then, if it's exactly the same route with exactly the same conditions, there is
going to be a little bit of variation.
Don't get too excited if you feel like you improved and don't get too disappointed
if you feel like you went the other way because a cup of coffee or a fight with a colleague
or pressure at work, these are all things that can play into the mix.
We want to know how we're responding and we want to look at that against the backdrop
of our overall training programme and that is to say that it would be taking into account
at least the previous month, if not longer, training because that will establish a baseline
for what does my heart rate look like on easy runs.
When I go back and I look, even though I may have felt like I ran easy, that heart rate
looks a little bit high compared to normal.
Okay, does that carry on for a second day in a row?
Maybe there's a problem and I need to have a look at that and adjust or even worse, I
can't get my heart rate up, so when I'm doing very high intensity sessions, doing
interval type of work and no matter how hard I push myself, I can't get my heart rate
up, it's staying very low and it's unresponsive.
Or if it does go up, it's taking much longer than normal to go up and those are warning
signs that we look for that we are overreaching and over-training.
For me the stunted heart rate is much more of a warning sign.
What people will then ask me, what's the difference between my heart rate getting better
and better and better because then it's getting lower, is that a problem?
No, it's probably good.
When it will become a problem is if you've got that…
Let me say, when it's not a problem is that when you've got that happening and your
heart rate is lowering, resting heart rate is coming down, you're running at a lower
heart rate at easier runs than you normally do, but when you push hard, you get an immediate
response from your heart rate and by running hard, you can get that heart rate up.
If you find that on easy runs everything is low-low-low and when you try to do hard runs,
it's still not responding and going up.
That's when you can see whoa, warning signs, got to do something about it.
Maybe I need some extra recovery or at least to check things out and make sure I'm okay.
Lindsey, the flip-side of that coin too, somebody could be looking at the numbers and they could
be going, gee, my numbers look amazing, but I'm absolutely hating every single run,
it's just not feeling right.
How big a role does perception and feeling play in this thing?
The biggest role and I think maybe part of the point of this question, which I didn't
answer at all, is to say that the best gift you can give yourself as a runner is to know
how to listen to your body and to learn to run on exactly how I'm feeling now.
When you get into a race situation, that's the sort of intuition that's going to lead
you to be able to execute a race perfectly.
There's only so much that a coach or an external person can tell you to say you should
be running a three and a half hour marathon.
You line up on the day and for the first 10km you blindly follow that 4:30 per km and you
get to 15-20-25km and you're like, I'm shattered.
It's because you couldn't recognise in those first 5km, although from all the calculations
it's likely that you could and should be able to do a 3:30, maybe 3:40 was the right
number and being unable to feel that from the beginning is what then leads to a disaster
in the second half.
Absolutely, you do want to be able to learn to run on feel and you don't want every
single session to be ruled by a stopwatch or a heart rate or a training speed or a power
and I have quite a few runners that don't look at all during, but then still look for
analysis purposes afterwards to get an idea of where they were or weren't, but what
they're doing by not looking at all during the race is they're really teaching themselves
to run better off intuition.
Lindsey, you mentioned not ignoring individual sessions but seeing how they fit into cycles
and over a few days if there were some warning signs.
That's one thing you do need to be careful of, when you're digging into this data,
is digging too deep in individual sessions and the making assumptions about your training
long term or not digging in deep enough over a three or four day cycle if there is something
that pops up because you don't want to leave it for a month or two months before you make
adjustments because then it's too late, you can't get that time back.
You've got to find that balance don't you?
Yes and definitely leaving a month before making adjustments, that would be too long
and certainly in cases where you're going into overreaching, that would be catastrophic.
I think you wouldn't be able to.
You'd eventually get so tired that you'd essentially be in a position where you'd
be forced to do something better.
Having said that, if you're training on the other end, which is too easy and not pushing
yourself enough, perhaps you don't want to wait a month to make those changes either
because as you say, you won't have caught up last time but in my experience, that error
is actually quite forgiving because it really creates a powerful aerobic system.
Being slightly under is going to beat being slightly over every day, every time.
Brilliant.
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