I’ve written before about heart rate training and the importance of doing zone training, which can be done using heart rate or power (when cycling). However, the most common mistake is trying to determine your heart rate zones using HRmax, or maximal heart rate, which is why I talked about using your Anaerobic Threshold to determine your training zones.
One danger of using HRmax as a guide to your zone has to do with the fact that the fitness benefits of training do not depend on how close you are from …

This Friday was time for another training ride.
A ride from Harmarket Bycicles parking lot, for a fast route on route 55 to The plains then heading northwest, with the famous loop around Frog Town – Rectortown – Atoke – 50 – Zulla.
This an awesome 17 mile loop with extensive flat sections that allows a very fast loop for sustained Z4 training:

 
The complete ride was 46 miles long looks very funny on the map, but it’s a great training circuit with a mix of long fast sections with some long, but …

Critical for any cyclist, or in general any endurance athlete is determining the training zones. The most common way of measuring and identifying training zones is by power output and heart rate.
Power output is very specific to cycling and requires a bicycle equipped with a power meter. Heart rate is simpler and more generic, as it applies to cyclist as well as any other type of endurance athlete, so it’s ideal for tri-athletes, as it can be used both on the bike as well as on the run (even in …