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Heat would easily account for 10bpm higher heart rate….
When you say you haven’t taken a break, is that Mondays off or no easier weeks?
Ended up having an unplanned recovery week as I’ve been fighting off a virus of some sort all week, probably didn’t help that the morning after my 10k race last weekend I had a tough long run with the final 5k at marathon pace but did it at half marathon pace and got an immediate telling off from coach, feeling better since Friday, but that’s didn’t make this mornings 17 miler this morning easier, but early morning, heat etc and was pleased to get it done. One more week here then 10 days in Italy so should be pretty well ready for any heat that the rest of this marathon block can throw at me!
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I've been doing the Hal Hidgon marathon plan for a few weeks now. There's definitely less intensity than other 10k/Half plans I've done before and the overall mileage is similar/a bit less then I'm used to.
I don't know if its the plan or the weather but I've been loosing fitness recently. My heart rate is high on easy runs (up to 10bpm higher) and my pace is down. Same for my tempo runs. Garmin reckons my VO2 max is down 2 points.
My diet is pretty much the same, resting heart rate normal, sleep pretty good. Work stress is a little high at the moment.
I haven't taken a break from running for awhile so not sure if it's overtraining? It's defo something I'm conscious of now and it's really demotivating to see the heart rate up on a easy jog.
I'm going on holidays next week and trying to decide if I just take a couple of weeks off and see if that helps or push through and see if the extra heat will pay off come Oct.