s1/e36 Running Metrics & What Your Watch Is Telling You with Coach Elisabeth
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes it can feel like we're being bombarded with training data and metrics. What's important? What's not? What's "normal"? Learn about the basics of common running metrics including...
- GPS (pace & distance measurement)
- Heart rate measurement
- Cadence
- Stride length
- Vertical oscillation & vertical ratio
- Ground contact time & ground contact time balance
- Resting heart rate
- Heart rate variability
- Respiratory rate
- "VO2Max" scores from your watch
- "Garmin Training Status"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.2 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.6 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make |
| 0:19.9 | you a better, smarter, faster, runner. |
| 0:23.4 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:26.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:28.2 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | I am Elizabeth. |
| 0:32.6 | This is episode number 40. |
| 0:35.5 | It blows my mind to say that episode number 40, and it's a solo episode, |
| 0:39.5 | it's just me today talking at you into your ears. This topic is metrics. I'm going to be doing |
| 0:47.3 | a survey in trying as best I can to explain kind of all of the bits and pieces of technology and the metrics that |
| 0:58.2 | they offer what these things are telling you, if they're important or not, where some of the |
| 1:04.8 | deficits in the information that we're getting might lie, and how you can best use some of this |
| 1:10.3 | information to guide your training. |
| 1:13.5 | Now, it is impossible for me in the time that we have available to us for me to cover |
| 1:18.0 | every single possible piece of smart running technology out there. |
| 1:22.8 | I just don't have time, nor do I have the money to buy them all and try them out. |
| 1:27.2 | That being said, the things that I'm money to buy them all and try them out. That being said, |
| 1:28.1 | the things that I'm going to talk about are common and widely available. We'll be discussing |
| 1:32.5 | generally running smartwatch metrics, specifically the proprietary metrics that Garmin smartwatches |
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