running stuff

relative effort / “fitness” seems to give different ideas about the most efficient form of training. Relative effort (which in this case is based on heart rate), indicates that it’s more efficient for me to do harder runs and then accept recovery time, fitness (based on load/effort in some sort of impulse-response model, I don’t really get it) seems to indicate 25% more return from avoiding runs that takes more than a day of recovery, specifically half marathon with recovery gives a net 8 point increase, a similar period with minimal recovery gives 10…

I think recovery is super boring thou, so that’s probably the best thing to optimize away.

graph of "cardio load", with long runs labeled, showing the recovery period after a half-marathon, versus the more consistent 15k's with other runs in betweenA graph of relative effort, showing how the half-marathon seems more significant, despite the extended recoveryfitness graph, showing that less recovery seems to build more fitness
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