In Love or Overtrained?
Dear Blog:
Despite my mega-training, chiseled physique, and sweet new Softride (Bernice), the X-Man has not been achieving the expected race results this year. But why? To find out if I’m training at the optimum intensity, I’ve turned to heart rate monitoring.
I've been downloading HRM data to my leased Dell laptop and analyzing the heck out of it. I’m not exactly sure what all the cool charts and lines mean, but I'm sure my ticket to Kona resides in there somewhere.
Lately I’ve taken the monitoring to another level by wearing the chest strap 24-7. Since I'm still training for IM Korea, I'm typically a zombie when taking the femininas out to the local cantina. The beautiful part about wearing the monitor is I don't really have to pay attention during my dates. Instead, I can rely on the heart rate data to determine the real candidates for becoming the future Mrs. X. When I get home from a date, I immediately download the data, and “boom!”, I can see if there was any excitement in X's ticker.
At first I didn't know if Tiffani was worthy of a second date. But when I charted myself at an astounding 81 BPM while giving her a goodnight peck on the cheek, I immediately emailed her about setting it up. At the end of that second date, though, she freaked out when my heartbeat surpassed my target zone range as I walked her to her door (anticipation, I suppose). Damn beeping alarm! I left a message promising to keep the zone alert on mute during future dates, but for some reason Tiffani isn't returning my calls.
The data indicates that the X-Man really liked her, but I think, in retrospect, I was just overtrained. - Racer X
Despite my mega-training, chiseled physique, and sweet new Softride (Bernice), the X-Man has not been achieving the expected race results this year. But why? To find out if I’m training at the optimum intensity, I’ve turned to heart rate monitoring.
I've been downloading HRM data to my leased Dell laptop and analyzing the heck out of it. I’m not exactly sure what all the cool charts and lines mean, but I'm sure my ticket to Kona resides in there somewhere.
Lately I’ve taken the monitoring to another level by wearing the chest strap 24-7. Since I'm still training for IM Korea, I'm typically a zombie when taking the femininas out to the local cantina. The beautiful part about wearing the monitor is I don't really have to pay attention during my dates. Instead, I can rely on the heart rate data to determine the real candidates for becoming the future Mrs. X. When I get home from a date, I immediately download the data, and “boom!”, I can see if there was any excitement in X's ticker.
At first I didn't know if Tiffani was worthy of a second date. But when I charted myself at an astounding 81 BPM while giving her a goodnight peck on the cheek, I immediately emailed her about setting it up. At the end of that second date, though, she freaked out when my heartbeat surpassed my target zone range as I walked her to her door (anticipation, I suppose). Damn beeping alarm! I left a message promising to keep the zone alert on mute during future dates, but for some reason Tiffani isn't returning my calls.
The data indicates that the X-Man really liked her, but I think, in retrospect, I was just overtrained. - Racer X
posted by Anonymous at Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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