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❤️ Rate Zones ❤️

❤️ February is Heart Health Month ❤️ Heart rates are individual - they vary by age, gender, fitness and activity levels and more. Looking to get faster and fitter? Read the below on the benefits of training in each HR zone. 🫀 Zone 1 - Warm Up - 50-60% of Max HR Offers benefits such as improved aerobic endurance, enhanced fat metabolism, and reduced risk of overtraining. It allows for gentle yet effective cardiovascular exercise, promoting overall fitness while minimizing stress on the body. 🫀 Zone 2 - Easy - 60-70% of Max HR Benefits include improved aerobic fitness, increased endurance, and enhanced fat burning. It allows for a moderate intensity level that promotes cardiovascular adaptation while still being sustainable for longer durations, making it an effective zone for building a strong aerobic base and improving overall running performance. 🫀 Zone 3 - Aerobic - 70-80% of Max HR Provides benefits such as improved lactate threshold, increased aerobic capacity, and enhanced speed. This zone challenges the cardiovascular system to work at a moderate to high intensity, improving performance by increasing the body’s ability to clear lactate and sustain higher effort levels for longer durations. 🫀 Zone 4 - Treshold - 80-90% of Max HR Benefits range from improved anaerobic threshold, increased speed, and enhanced overall performance in high-intensity workouts and races. This zone challenges the cardiovascular system to work at a high intensity, improving the body’s ability to sustain fast-paced efforts and push through fatigue, leading to greater speed and performance gains. 🫀 Zone 5 - Max - 90-100% of Max HR Provides benefits such as improved maximal aerobic capacity (VO2 max), enhanced speed, and increased anaerobic power. This high-intensity zone pushes the body to its limits, helping improve overall cardiovascular fitness and performance in activities requiring maximum effort, such as sprinting or high-intensity interval training. #NordicTrack #iFIT #HeartMonth #HeartRate #HeartRateZones #HeartRate Training

Glad to be back running these beautiful trails. Lakes, mountains and the ocean all in one run 🤩

Some much needed trail therapy 🌲🌲🌲🌲

Holiday running pics! Ran 2 fun events this past week. The annual Brewer’s Row Challenge - 6 breweries over 9 kilometres. I had a blast even though I don’t drink beer. The second one was the Winter Solstice Run that benefited a local Shelter. It’s great to be a part of such a fun and caring run community 🥰. Happy Holiday running!

Missing the desert 🌵

Caves! Perfect place for a photo break. Yes, I checked for spiders and snakes before I went in 🕷️🕸️🐍.

I may have done it for the T-shirt 😜alone, but I really ran my first WAM because of these people. My ❤️ WAM 2017 was the reward for so many fun training runs with these amazing people. We’ve had so many great days running and racing together over the years. Here’s to many, many more adventures 🍷Sadly, they wont include running WAM again 😢

Race photos that are actually not horrible DO exist 😎.

1 Weekend 2 Races

Totally worth getting up before the sun 🌵😎😍

Volunteering day at the Jackass Junction was a blast! It was amazing witnessing the true grit of all the runners as they passed through. Another great day in the desert with the

Volunteering is so much fun! Got to experience the Javalina Jundred without actually having to run 100K 😎 This race is pretty epic with amazing runners, volunteers and supporters. So glad we decided to do this! Photos from day 1 at Package Pickup.