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Comment on The Xi’an China Runaround by Niklas

Niklas — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:56:33 +0000

Just found this post a day or so before I left for Xi’an and was already determined to run around the wall. link to runcode.wordpress.com

Comment on The Stages Power Meter In-Depth Review Update by Michael Hebert

Michael Hebert — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:32 +0000

Is there a discernible difference between carbon and alloy crank arms? I have a SRAM red crank currently

Comment on A look at testing with New Leaf Fitness for Garmin device calorie calculations by Tisztul_A_Visztula

Tisztul_A_Visztula — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:13 +0000

Scott, I made my 3rd test to get a good metabolic profile. I am just an enthusiastic guy being ready to make some research about exercise physiology, but I aas the first one to question the indirect calometry results at that test organizer. Finally they had to send the so-called measuring cube for a recalibration after my complaints. The third test ehich was a gratis of course, gave much better results, but I was unhappy because they did not follow my proposed protocol. Thus I could get steady state only when resting. Let me attack all these testers including the place Ray has visited, they dont even consider that any good indirect calorimetry estimation works to get steady states in each of the HR ranges. So if I need to have data for 15 ranges, appr 1 hour is needed, because you have to find the necessary pace and/or gradient eg to get a HR constantly being in the range of 100 and 109. After 4 minutes spent at the same HR you can say that it is what happens at that HR. Maybe a bit earlier, but never less than 2 minutes.

Comment on A look at testing with New Leaf Fitness for Garmin device calorie calculations by Scott

Scott — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:25:28 +0000

I recently did a VO2Max test (at some fancy gym..-today), the test had a 8 min warm-up which I’ve never heard of before, then the 14 minute..well I’ll call it a run-a-thon with a pick up at the end. Kinda of like finishing a 5K. My heart rate was at most 170′s, and I’ve seen it higher while training and doing over stuff (used to be a 400m runner, now a triathlete). I had more in me for sure (aerobically) but was feeling the leg tiredness as I just started back running in March (knee surgery). I wanted to ask the tester: Why don’t we just start at a 6:45 pace for a few minutes and ratchet it up to low 5:00s? We stopped at 5:50′s pace when my legs were tired of already running almost 3 miles (1 at min warm up, 2 during the test), but I was far from falling off the treadmill. I surely had more in me. Was the 8 minute warm up needed, or even the 2 min increase need for so long? When running repeat 400′s back in the day I recall being dead in 55 seconds or less. Should I either ask for money back, have a ‘do-over’, keep the results, or chalk it up as a loss? Of course the subtle suggesting of a ‘custom’ training plan followed during my visit…

Comment on How to fix heart rate strap chaffing issues by Rocio

Rocio — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:11 +0000

I bought the Garmin Forerunner 610 and the premium heart rate monitor hurts me while running (under my breast) .. What can I do??? I use it the way it seems to be weared.

Comment on The Stages Power Meter In-Depth Review Update by Griffon

Griffon — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:42:15 +0000

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else but I was wondering if it’s possible to designate the cadence signal from a Garmin GSC-10 as primary over the Stages PM? I use a Garmin Edge 800 and already use the GSC-10 for cadence and back up speed. So ideally I would think it would be better to use the GSC-10 so that any data drops would not include cadence information.