Lactate Threshold Test (POST 400!)

Well, thus begins training in earnest only four days into the new year. Coach has set out a plan that will take Erich and I into the Toilet Bowl Duathlon in February in fine shape, then onto Battenkill hopefully in top form. In order to get some numbers for her to work with as far as heart rate zones are concerned, she needed to send us through a lactate threshold workout. 20 minutes at max effort netted me 3660 heartbeats. 183bpm with a max of 194. Needless to say there was much gnashing of teeth being had on the front porch of Casa de Grant.
The warm up


Begging for a minimum of suffering, just before it begins


Coach, egging me on.


Intense Erich