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Forerunner 955 green zone

used the running feature for the first time yesterday for my forerunner 955 and found it incredibly hard to keep within the targeted green zone, I was always to fast, the thing is, if I went much slower I’d be walking fast, any ideas why?

0 marketuncle over 2 years ago

Have you set your heart rate zones yet? Need to set it for each activity individually, including run. I prefer %HRR, heart rate reserve. My green zone (141-153) is more then enough for leisure jog of 7++min per km.

0 2603270 over 2 years ago in reply to marketuncle

Thank you for your reply, I’m a newbie to Garmin and running in general,
I’ve not done that yet. I’ve been reading that I should run at about 147 beats per minute, that would be 180 minus my age but According to my Garmin my run average heart beat was 169 beats per minute. I’m pretty confused, if I run slower, I’ll be hardly running at all.

0 marketuncle over 2 years ago in reply to 2603270

I was actually inspired by this article on low heart rate jogging and never looked back ever since.

www.runandbecome.com/.../low-heart-rate-training

0 2603270 over 2 years ago in reply to marketuncle

Thanks for your help I really appreciate it. Need all the help I can get.