(Long Distance) Ramblings

Saturday, November 06, 2004

I'm in a post season, planning for next season, taking a rest period.

But, I did go to Rivercity Bicycles yesterday for a Lactate Threshold test performed by Stephenie Sullivan of Vital Fitness. After a lot of spinning, sweating and a minor amount of bleeding the result is a lactate threshold of 153, or thereabouts.

What does this mean? Well Edmund R. Burke writes on the Carmichael Training Systems website that lactate threshold "...is defined as the point in which blood lactate begins to accumulate above moderate levels in one's blood during exercise of increasing intensity." Or, as Stephenie put it "Lactate Threshold is the point where your body can no longer cleanse lactate acid."

The threshold of 153 was not unexpected, although, was a bit higher than I thought it would be. This means that I should be able to ride with a heart rate of 153 for a very long time, as long as I consume calories that is.



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