After reading about heart rate monitor training and using one myself (I currently have one on loan from a Twitter friend that I really have to return), I have to say that yes, indeed, my performance has been better. Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot is the book I used as my reference, and really, while there is lots of information in that book, the basic rule was to alternate hard days with easy days, with your short days being hard and your long days being easy.

That, along with some race strategy from the same book, has resulted in a lowering of my racing times for running and an impressive showing (for me) in the metric century.

I’m not 100% convinced the program is superior to other programs, but I can say that I’m seeing results as promised–even without my living up to my end of the deal with training as fierce as I’d want it.

That said, a few months into it, I think heart rate monitor training is making a difference for me in a very positive way.

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