What HR zone for a 5k (from LT calculator for HR zones)?

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1-5c++ (max)

Excuse my ignorance, but where can I find this zone calculator?

Seriously Z5 for start, Z4 for bulk of race, back to Z5 for finish.

Good luck & it ain't my fault if you:
a) blow up and don't finish
b) blow chunk at the finish

I do all of my races, regardless of distance, in Z3.  I am the most frail 205 pounder.

I thought you were supposed to throw up *on* the finish line??

Plus it means you were already bending over at the line.

You know the old adage, "Run THROUGH the finish line."

And HR monitors should be outlawed in 5 and 10k events.  Because if you are worrying about where your HR is, then you are not going hard enough.

amen, brother!

5Ks should hurt...10Ks too, but not as much as a 5K.

as for wearing the HR monitor, i like to analyze the data afterwards, so I wear mine.

Yeah, I was not worrying about it during, but its nice to look at the data after to try to figure out if you DID go all out.

I felt like I went all out, but based on some HR training I've done, I think I had some extra juice I could have given (certainly didn't feel like that through the finish line).


 

The first 5K I did I was at 182 after about a minute or so, was up around 188 after a half mile, held there for most of the race and pushed up to a max of 198 sprinting at the finish--and my last mile was the fastest split.  My LT at the time was 176.  There's just no answer to this for a 5K, for a short race like this I always follow the old adage 'Go hard or go home!'  I would say the same thing about a 10K but I think that depends a bit more on your fitness level, but for a 5K just redline it the whole way and force yourself to finish before you puke or pass out.

I don't know--my HRM helped me on my last 5K...

I completely ignored it and just went hard. Ended up with an open 5K PR and realized that maybe my LT HR is a little higher than I thought it was.

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Reviewing the data made me realize that I could go harder than I thought I could, and the HRM file quantified that for me.

Hmm, imagine that.  Even a doctor has trouble establishing his zones and training by HR.

Makes me wonder why people don't listen to me when I say to lose the HRM and train and race by pace and feel.

...because some of us have a lot of success racing and training with one maybe?

just because the doc didn't race with one doesn't mean it was useless.  I read his post as saying based off his HR monitor during training, he knew he could HTFU, which he did and got a PR. 

Once, I slowed down the last 200 yards of a 10k because my HR was creeping out of zone 4...










not really.

Knowing your HR doesn't make you HTFU.  HTFU makes you HTFU.

Your mind doesn't give a sh-t if you are going 185 or 195 bpm.  All it knows is "Damn this is hard and I want to slow down!"  It is up to you to push it, not some number on a piece of plastic and electrodes.  That is the difference between the people who run PR's and successful 5/10k efforts.  NOT because they have a grasp on what their training HR zones are.

Again, HR should not even be in the same paragraph as 5/10k pacing.

My best 5ks/10ks are with no watch

agreed 100%.

no reason at all except for data acqusition to where a HRM during a 5k, 10k, sprint, or oly, IMO.

I like them for longer races because I tend to go too hard, so it keeps me in check.


As for HTFU, this is what I do during a race...

I play a game during the event and I ask myself over and over, "can I go harder than this?  What if my life depended on it, could I go faster?  What if my family's life depended on it, could I go faster?"  If I say "yes" then I'm not going fast enough.