Heart Rates

["Jeanne Slominski" <EnduranceMorgan1@home.com>]

From: "Truman Prevatt, PhD" <tprevatt@mindspring.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:32 AM

> I started to train once a week in the FL sand hills - hills
> with deep sand footing. Galloping up the hills in deep sand - pushing the
> heart rate up heart rate (180 to 200 bpm) for sretches of a mile or so
> really seemed to have a positive impact on her ability to cool.
>
> Truman

Any thoughts as to how long one should stay at these higher HR levels for
optimum conditioning? Should it be a distance measure as opposed to a time
measure?

I condition in deep sand as well as on some long hills. Hills are 1.5 to 4.1
miles long.

Jeanne