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Jules72 easier on the stomach but also more effective for sleep, going by a couple of links I read. Worth a shot I guess.

    BlainSA yup, been thinking about getting one. Put in an hour while I watch TV.

      6 days later

      i’ve been using a garmin vivoactive 4 for about a week now and i have to say i’m pretty impressed with it. tracking seems pretty consistent and at least relatively accurate for things like pulse ox, vo2 max, and sleep cycles. the body battery thing correlates pretty well with my overall energy too.

      after doing nothing for 2 months, i’m starting to run again. did 2 km last thursday, adding 1 km/day to 5 now. i’m trying out this built in trainer thing to do half marathon training. it seems a touch aggressive, but i’m aiming for an hour 45 by mid july. don’t think i’ll actually run a race, just want to see if i can do it or not.

        Christian lol i had 3 drinks on saturday and even that had more impact than i thought it would. i’m into stats and tracking, so this is good motivation for me.

          303abuser nice one mate!

          I’m back at baseline. When I last started like you did, I hoyed trainers on out of bed in the morning and ran for 4 lamp posts, walked for 2. Did that for 5 minutes week 1, 10 mins week 2, within about a month I was able to do a 35 minute 5k with my local Parkrun. Which isn’t fast, but I would have laughed at anyone suggesting this beforehand. Keep it up!

              NasserAlazzawi good for you, starting out again sucks haha. i was running 4:45 kms in december (for up to an hour), so i’m hoping it comes back quickly. i quit after 2 km thursday because my lungs were on fire and i was coughing like crazy (it was -17, so that didn’t help anything either). my 5 km today wasn’t nearly so bad. i’m terrified of the first day i try hill sprints again though. 🤣

                  303abuser I’ve been doing the hill sprints….though only 10 × 25 seconds … bloody exhausting whatever body state you’re in!

                      Jules72 hill sprints will get you in shape faster than anything else. i have a short hill (steep but only 20 strides long) and i do sets of 10. there’s a half km hill i do that’s a 10% grade, sprint up, walk down — i usually do 5-8 km on that one at a time and it’s brutal, great for speed conditioning though.

                          303abuser tbh though my heart rate (as measured by my Fitbit) has a 30 min run as having a higher peak

                              Jules72 really? i’m curious to see how that goes. i’d assume hill sprints would cause a higher heart rate, but i was at 175 at the peak of my run today, so there’s not much headroom left there.

                                  303abuser I think duration matters right? If I run 30 mins at a decent pace I’m prob going to reach a higher heart rate than 10 × 25 second uphill sprints

                                      Jules72 i guess? i figured the intensity of sprints would push it up a bit, but i’ve never actually tracked it.

                                      i did a slow 5 km on ice this morning, that was a good time.

                                          Jules72 yeah i sprint until i basically can’t, then take a break. it’s 100% effort, then rest, then do it again. on the long, steep hill that i run, i’m betting my heart is near 185 most of the way up.