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Originally Posted by Tucson
7456 steps. I walked and ran about 3.35 miles, burning a very conservative 223 calories. There was some running that I am only accounting for as walking. So this makes for a target of 2723 calories. I have consumed 2739 calories. Target met. So instead of taking a break for tomorrow, I will have a compulsion to exercise more. Maybe this will be for just a couple miles. I also can slow down and go for duration. However, I will have a problem with this, my going slower. I do need my running to go between different goals, endurance or speed.
BTW what I did find helpful is to have the watch alert me when my heart rate exceeded 720 bpm. When this happened, I tried to back off. I did not even come close to my previous record of 179 bpm. The max today was at or below 172, with only one segement of the run with a max of 174. I find that I have a need to keep pushing myself despite the possible ill effects. I also am still not in good shape. One runner on the Internet was embarrassed by his eight and a half minute mile. Amazing. I do not know if I can ever do this myself, but only in my dreams.
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I think you might have had a typo there - 720 bpm? I think you would know long before you reached that.
I was a 10 minute miler. 1 mile, 10 miles, didn't matter. 10 minutes a mile. I couldn't get in that zone unless I kept my steady pace. Slow and steady, but despite the trite old saying I still didn't win the damn race.
I kept snacking on fruit last night. that's one problem with the "big eraser" idea of using exercise to even things out. I come home hungry and for some reason it seems to be carb/sugar hungry. It still works out when I do the long paddles and burn over 1000 calories. But yesterday's 749 (which I probably should have edited back to 600) ended up cancelling out a lot less. I ended up rolling forward 642, but I had 1300 rolled forward from the prior day so I cut that in half. Right now, with breakfast, lunch and a couple of snacks logged I have ~350 left for dinner and night snacks. I am likely to go over that. I will try to go over less than 400 so I am chipping away at the extra deficit.