I did Chef Joe’s Omelette Run today at my MAF heart rate (112-122 bpm) this morning. I got to the race early to make sure I got a shirt and walked a 5K as a warmup before the 5K race. I did the race and warmup walking only (no running).
5K Warm-up for 5K Race
I did a 5K walk as my warm-up on the track.
Here were my splits in the warm-up.
Here are the statistics for the warm-up.
I did pretty good at keeping in my MAF heart rate range of 112-122.
It took about 20 minutes to get up to my MAF range. The warm-up ended about 25 minutes before the race but I kept moving after the warm-up.
The 5K Race
Here’s my heart rate during the race. I stayed in the MAF range for the most part. Because I was already warmed up I got into my MAF range in just a couple of minutes.
Here were my splits for the race (walk). My race splits were better than the best warm-up splits.
Here was the route. Not too much hills considering it is here in SW PA. I did find it challenging doing the walk with other people since I tried to keep up with the women in front of me but that made my heart rate go up over the MAF number. When that happened I breathed deeply and held in my breath at the in breath. That seems to drop my heart rate a few points quickly.
As you can see I hit 137 bpm at one point. I did throttle back pretty quickly. It was getting hot even at 9 AM but the temperature above is recorded as 69.5 F.
I had fun. And I represented keto…