We did an LSD on Sunday. It stands for “long steady distance”, not the hallucinogenic drug preferred by Prog Rock bands. It’s not exactly long in respect to the Yukon, clocking in at a meagre 90 minutes. I have been a little suspicious of these paddles as we don’t leave the river shattered like our sprint sessions and I started to question the value of our mellow trip down to the river on Sunday.
From polarpersonaltrainer.com
We’re monitoring our heart rate so I was surprised by the results from Sunday. My new polar watch reassured me that it is doing some good. I burnt almost 1000 calories during the paddle, which was at a pace above race speed but is an indication of how many calories we are going to need over the course of the three days. It also showed I operated in a good aerobic zone during the trip.
I do feel that if I’m not in the top 5% of my heart rate then I’m not working but realistically we need to increase our training for longer durations at the lower levels. It was pretty much evenly split between aerobic exercise(green) and light training(blue). Maybe we should consider adding a few increases of pace into the session to increase our anerobic work and move more of the exercise out of light training, but for now I’m a reassured it’s doing some good.
Results from a sprint session
For comparison I’ve also included the results from our sprint session on friday night.
As you can see my heart was in the red for the majority of the time.
We were doing 1 minute sprints with a 1 minute break. 3 sets of 6.
I remember enjoying the 18 seconds of relaxing grey.
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