Anyway, yeah, other people have said that they don't get any better results by holding back early - you just have to go from the start. Certainly I wasn't being passed in the last mile - I think I passed one guy and that was it as we were all just holding position.
The thing is, this race was supposed to give me a new HR max! The only way I can get my HR up (or at least, I used to) was by racing a short race - but this got me nowhere near what I consider my max (180 is the highest I've seen, so I use 183). I'm kind of disappointed it didn't spike up at the end but that hasn't happened in the last few years for any 5K or 10K. All my best races in the last few years have fairly flat HR profiles.
On the other hand, I can correlate the numbers with by-feel pretty easily; I know that 140 feels easy, that 160 feels hard, and 167 is working really hard. Or at least, that's true at this elevation. It seems like I can handle higher HRs lower, just by looking at my different races. My HR in my HM PR (2500 ft lower) was about the same as during this race - and there is no way I could have hung on at this level for another 10 miles!
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Date: 2012-02-27 03:12 pm (UTC)Anyway, yeah, other people have said that they don't get any better results by holding back early - you just have to go from the start. Certainly I wasn't being passed in the last mile - I think I passed one guy and that was it as we were all just holding position.
The thing is, this race was supposed to give me a new HR max! The only way I can get my HR up (or at least, I used to) was by racing a short race - but this got me nowhere near what I consider my max (180 is the highest I've seen, so I use 183). I'm kind of disappointed it didn't spike up at the end but that hasn't happened in the last few years for any 5K or 10K. All my best races in the last few years have fairly flat HR profiles.
On the other hand, I can correlate the numbers with by-feel pretty easily; I know that 140 feels easy, that 160 feels hard, and 167 is working really hard. Or at least, that's true at this elevation. It seems like I can handle higher HRs lower, just by looking at my different races. My HR in my HM PR (2500 ft lower) was about the same as during this race - and there is no way I could have hung on at this level for another 10 miles!