In article said:Let's say I run 4 hours per week, spanning 5 days
Now, let's say I add a day of 1:30 worth of soccer playing.
I conducted a little experiment today:
Over the course of the soccer game, my HR averages just slightly higher than a typical 10 mile
'steady pace' run, ~80%HRmax, which just happens to last just about 1:30. Naturally, my HR swings
across a much wider range during soccer, from a low of occasional easy aerobic zone all the way up
to spurts well past threshold zone, very much like a fartlek run.
Now, for the sake of logging and training planning, should I put that I run 5h30m per week? In the
past, I was chopping off an entire 15 minutes worth of soccer time in an effort to 'convert' to
running time, but I think perhaps I was being overly conservative.
Seems like I should also consider this a 'hard' day as well, in the training program scheme of
things, no?
Certainly put the soccer in your training log. How to equate it to running, and whether, are
somewhat different questions.
I do find that for my purposes, time at effort level equates fairly well to running. That's for
stationary bike, rowing machine, and swimming. If I'm on the bike for 90 minutes, my next day's
run feels much like it does when I've run for 90 minutes -- minus some of the impact stress. The
things I do and equate are steadier efforts than soccer, though.
For your experiment -- try running 90 minutes at 80% one day, running an easy 3 miles the next
day, and compare with 90 minutes soccer followed by an easy 3 miles the next day. If your followup
runs feel comparable, I'd go with recording the soccer as a 90 minute run. Adjust as needed.
When it comes time for preparing for a specific race, I don't think these equivalences are as
meaningful. But I've found them to work quite well in both base building and in upping my longest
aerobic stretches. (The 90 minute biking was not figurative. I did that.)
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