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HR training with elevation changes

I use the epix gen2. I run 15-30 miles a week, I use heart rate training (not pace training) and I generally use training recommendations from the software. I love the recommended workouts, with two big exceptions: 1) when you run up a hill (any hill), your HR goes up (same as when you walk up the stairs). I don't want to slow down on the hill to accommodate the software recommendation for HR, so I keep running at my pace and my HR goes out of the "zone" I'm supposed to be in. Then the software has the watch tell me my HR is too high (beeping), which is super annoying and unhelpful and makes me want to slow down (which is the wrong answer for training). Ideally the software is taking into account real-time elevation changes and allowing for HR variation based on the climb. 2) when doing interval training (a sprint session, for example), the "recovery" block assumes your HR immediately goes back down, so again I am getting "beeped" by the software that my HR is too high when of course it is going to take 90 seconds to recover from 165bpm down to 115bpm while still running. Is there any solution to this?

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  • but the software says my “training accuracy” is super low

    And it is true. If you chose a HR based workout, you have to keep the HR within the prescribed limits. That's exactly its purpose…

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  • Is there any solution to this?

    Disable the alerts, and just use the HR Zones screen or the Audio Prompts instead to monitor your HR.

  • Sure. That works while on the run, but the software says my “training accuracy” is super low (32% on my sprint run this morning), when all the time my accuracy was “off” had to do with how long it takes to recover from a sprint. 

  • but the software says my “training accuracy” is super low

    And it is true. If you chose a HR based workout, you have to keep the HR within the prescribed limits. That's exactly its purpose. If you prefer keeping your pace, choose rather a pace-based workout, or use the Pace Pro feature (adjusting the pace according to the elevation profile). Or just don't care about the "training accuracy" (since you apparently don't anyway if you chose voluntarily to run above the target HR level).

  • I use heart rate training (not pace training)
    HR goes up
    I don't want to slow down
    so I keep running at my pace

    That contradicts itself. If you are doing heart rate training, you should stick to your heart rate.

    As Trux has already said. Choose a suitable workout. Either one based on heart rate, or one based on pace. And then stick to it if you want to get good training accuracy.