Glad to hear that! You and Nita can start a club.

DCtoPgh wrote:

lenzlaw wrote:

Glad to hear that! You and Nita can start a club.

Only if joining will make me fast like Nita

No pressure.

Great! that's a relief, I'm sure.

THANKFUL, focused, calm.

Kat -

That's surely great news!

From some reading and from some of my own experiences, I feel that some of the so called "norms" are left wanting.

1. I had mentioned this before on the forum: When I first started training for a marathon, I went for a full physical with my doctor and he said I had a cardiac murmur and referred me to a cardiologist. The cardiologist did a full series of tests with all sorts of skin-peeling attachments on me and came back with a quote that was music to my ears: "Are you an athlete? The graph says you are."

2. When I run, my HR goes upto insane levels, close to 200! As much as I like it, it's NOT the count from my age till 220 Then I read what Hal Higdon had written about a girl he was coaching. Her HR would run upto 240, but she was an awesome runner! Apparently there are some variations in people that are medically inexplicable. So these days, rather than get bogged down by these empirical guidelines, I just go by my feel - as stupid as it may be!

So like Charlotte said, get your running gear on and go out for a run to celebrate - with or without the electrodes!

On a different note, I wanted to ask you about yoga as you had mentioned that in another thread. I had posted a question for Jen, which went unanswered I am beginning to dust up my yoga routines, which I agree are totally complementary to running while soothing me mentally. What asanas do you do? After years of just running, my body flexibility is down the toilet, so gotta work on getting my ankle behind my neck!

Thanks for this post, Ramesh.  I've been recently told by an unnamed MCM running "friend" that I'm topped out pretty much on gaining any more speed because my heart rate is too high and will hold me back.  I told him the exact same thing, just because my HR is higher than his doesn't mean it's not normal for me or is a problem. 

I went through the battery of tests myself and was told my heart was "beautiful" and healthy and perfect, so I no longer worry when my heart rate starts to soar when I'm running.  I sometimes have to walk a bit when I feel it getting too high for my comfort level, but otherwise, I know I'm causing no damage.  Quite the opposite.  You can't go by those stock calculations like 220 minus your age.

Ditto on the yoga.  After practicing religiously for 3-4 years, then getting into running and giving up yoga completely, I've become extremely inflexible.  Time to find a balance.  I miss yoga, the calmness and the flexibility for sure.