<p>Please, no one else go to the runner’s happy hour…I think it made for some unhappy words! </p>
<p>Awesome hike today. Now I’m going to go wild. Burn two bundles of firewood. And, drink the rest of the scotch in ny camping flask.</p>
<p>Legs are tired. Hope I don’t cramp up getting into or out of the tent.</p>
<p>Well if you couldn’t tell I’m obsessed with this HR stuff.
- hard to get HR over 125 with swimming. I understand now why swimming might be an excellent aerobic base builder for running.
- Heat. I’d get an instant 5 bpm rise moving from shade to sunlight. Had hr monitor in sauna. Hr almost made it to 130 the 5 minutes I was in there today . Sitting/resting at home hr is typically high 50s
- cycling will get it around 130 bpm at around 17-18 mph. low hr cycling seems like a harder workout then running?</p>
<p>Enjoy the Obama scotch, IDad!</p>
<p>I fell off the chair when I saw that one!!! Lol @ autocorrect. </p>
^Me too 
MomWC beat me to it in her Obama scotch cheer.
I am betting Obama would love to be sitting with Idad before a fire drinking Oban these days too 
Come to think of it, so would I!
<p>So Obama scotch is not a thing??!! LOL! I’m not a drinker so I had no idea - I figured it was Obama’s favorite scotch or something!!! HAHA</p>
<p>ohiopublic, re your low hr running vs cycling comment, perhaps muscle engagement and specificity factors? You’re more of a runner than a cyclist and therefore your “cycling muscles” (and engagement/movement) are not as developed yet as with running? What pace do you run at to keep your hr at 130? Are you riding on flat roads? 17-18 mph @130 hr strikes me as pretty reasonable.</p>
<p>The intensity of exercising on this thread intimidates me. All i do is taking a walk. i can happily report that I too 6,254 steps today.</p>
<p>Walks are great. You’re outside, moving and you can actually take in the world around you!</p>
<p>I love walking. I do it every day with my two dogs! Please don’t be intimidated. We all do different things at different intensities. I just focus on putting one foot in front of the other - if I had to worry about low heart rate on top of that I’d never exercise. Some folks are very knowledgeable and very technical - and that’s great - but we’ve got a lot of low key folks here too. 
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<p>Waking is great! </p>
<p>I went on a power walk the other day and really pushed myself. I was so sore the next day! There’s nothing wrong with walking!</p>
<p>I walk a lot too. Couple times a day with the dog and often sub a long walk in on off-running days. </p>
<p>If you represent walking on this thread, I’ll BET you have other joiners - that’s how it works!!! </p>
<p>Obama scotch. Yikes. Although, there probably is some kind of drinking game in there… :)</p>
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<p>Gave up on the low intensity indoor cycling training. The required duration to get foundational training was too long for indoor riding and my butt was killing me:). Indoor cycling is more than just mind numbing! So I went back to my 60 minute interval training - and my legs threw a welcome back whine party. Oh well, at least I took a couple of weeks to rest and recover from the season and on the weekends I’ll do my long slow outside foundation rides. </p>
<p>Finished up week 2 of my 4 week pre- training schedule with a 25 min run at the beach. I’ve spent the summer doing mostly run/walk with lots of steep hills, and now I’m working on getting back to running for longer amounts of time.</p>
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<p>Walking is fantastic exercise. I lost 90 pounds with walking up and down the neighborhood and local park paths being the majority of my exercise days. Throw the iPod in my pocket and head out to enjoy the fresh air.</p>
<p>It’s especially good for older folk like me. Pretty low injury quotient – although I managed to turn my ankle and do face plants a couple of times! And, the fitness challenge can be scaled up or down.</p>
<p>MNKat - my running pace @130 hr seems to be around 13 minutes a mile right now. The first mile has been under 12 but I don’t seem to be making a huge amount of progress in terms of seeing my mile pace decrease. Frustrating as MOWC can attest . I’ve really increased my running , cycling or spinning volume to almost 2 hours a day so I’m hoping to start seeing some improvement soon. (For those not familiar with low hr training - it is based on the concept of establishing an aerobic base if you want to get faster, so you have to run a low hr (180 - age plus or minus some other factors ) to build that aerobic base)</p>
<p>Igloo - trust me - I wouldn’t be doing this amount of running /training, if I weren’t competing in masters track/senior olympics events. I agree with Idad that running probably has a lot of adverse affects for us old folks, but it’s what I enjoy and am best at.</p>
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<p>Now, I don’t feel so bad! I did 16 minute miles walking around the neighborhood last week and kept my heart rate under 130. :)</p>
<p>My problem is that my running isn’t much faster than my walking, but my heart rate goes through the roof!</p>