Test Run Golf
So, my heart rate monitor apparently has a mode called OwnZone. My friend, Aaron, pointed me to a resource about how to determine your individual max heart rate. I thought my Polar F6 heart rate monitor would allow me to calibrate specifically to my body.
Expected behavior: Exercise > Start(OwnZone); => 1 minute slow walk, 1 minute normal walk, 1 minute brisk walk, 1 minute slow jog, 1 minute run.
Actual behavior: Exercise > Start(OwnZone); => 1 minute slow walk, Okay, GO! What the hell? Stop, walk back to the starting line, try again. It never skipped to the next zone. It never calculated anything but the regular normal estimates for everyone. I can, apparently, run two miles nonstop with an average heart rate of 191 bpm (not very fast, mind you, but whatever). According to most of the people I asked, that’s supposed to give you a heart attack, or at the very least, make you puke up everything eaten on your side of the family since 1945.
Luckily, calibration times didn’t end up on my clicker. So, I took the first lap. It was 3:19, burning 49 calories (25% fat). I stopped, tried the OwnZone again and said “Screw it, I’m going.” Just to make sure I didn’t kill myself, I would take a lap at a 2½ – 3 minute pace, stop the clock, and rest until my heart rate dropped down to the zone (147 – 164 bpm), then go again. Maybe that’s cheating, but dammit, the heart rate monitor is showing me some numbers that should be making me wheeze. Looking at the numbers now, though, I can see that my methodology thus far has south of the border of the Republic of Mensa—many thousands of miles south of that border.
Just to check, I started a new session where I left my bottle walking home. I had to extrapolate some of the numbers because my wrist unit kept losing the chest strap.
- Distance: 2.00 miles (3.2187 km)
- Time: 21:29 (10:44 / mile – 4.59 mph avg)
- Heart Rate Max: 193 bpm (105%)
- Heart Rate Avg: 178 bpm (97%)
- APFT Score for run: 25 (required to pass: 60 – 17:42)
- Goal for August: 50 – 18:48 (2:41 faster)
- Energy burned: 387 kCal (15% fat)
So, for all that effort and work, that run burned 59 calories of fat. Let’s take a look at the walk home.
- Distance: 0.80 miles (1.2875 km)
- Time: 15:35 (19:29 / mile – 3.08 mph avg)
- Heart Rate Max: 149 bpm (81%)
- Heart Rate Avg: 139 bpm (76%)
- Time in Heart Rate Zone (128 – 147 bpm): 15:32
- Energy burned: 188 kCal (60% fat) => 113 kCal
So, I burned more nearly twice as much fat on the walk home as I did pushing 190 bpm on the track. Time to rethink my strategy, stat.
- Apollo’s Statistics
- Height: 70 inches (1.778 m)
- Weight: 191.5 lb (86.86 kg) [-4.5 lb]
- BMI: 27.48 (-0.65) [Overweight]
- Goal Weight: 165 lb (74.84 kg) [23.67 BMI]
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