I’ll be having a pre-swim swim.
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Errors from 2019 onwards races;
AAA power meter battery
CR2032 HR battery
Secure spares nice and good well tidy
Secure front aero bottle properly 
Also, my wetsuit has more holes in it than Rab C Nesbitts vest 
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Didn’t he win or get close to IMUK? I’ve seen his name pop up a few times over the last couple of years.
Edit - looks like it was Staffs 70.3 not IMUK he won. Decent looking early career cv though. 12th at the world Champs in Nice last year! One to watch then.
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Bugger it - had a lie in, if you can call 6:45 a lie in. Rode the same loop I did yesterday. I’ll drive the course on Saturday 
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so the race is on Sunday yeah?
Guessing there’ll be no trackers or the like.
We want a cheesy TriTalk photo at the start/end to prove you were all there!!
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Don’t think there’ll be a lens wide enough to get us all at 2m apart 
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I’m pretty sure I’ve read all the briefing notes & I realise we’re asked to take our wetsuits to registration for a check, but is there a pre-race check of our run kit? Races I have done in the past have asked for this.
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Yeah, I’ve not seen anything about that, either.
One way to lighten the bag
I’ve seen it somewhere that there is a prerace run kit check, could be on the marshalls list.
That and the bike light Rob is very careful with I think.
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Definitely worth doing; otherwise you’re in for a shock, which can be dangerous.
What is all of this HRV?
My watch records it and uploads it to TrainingPeaks daily, not sure what I should be looking for?
@Doonhamer - moved here from Rant thread
Goss playing down her chances…
Edit, shorter link:-
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heart rate variability buddy. It measures how rested you are. I understand it as the time interval between heart beats. A well rested individual has variable time intervals between beats, whereas someone who displays higher levels of stress, over training etc will display more even timed intervals due to the increased levels of cortisol and adrenaline ( i think, i’m a dental Dr, not a real Dr 
) But throw a number at me and i have no idea whether it is good or bad. Its not a bad metric to follow over a long period of time so you can gauge a pattern of whats going on. I think high levels of masturbation are classed as increased levels of activity with low HRV. Just sayin
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Cheers!
I don’t always wear my watch…but here’s the monthly overview
Looks variable to me???
But I’m under the 50% median range for my age…
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i guess if you start seeing consistently low levels of HRV, against a higher baseline, it may be ok and expected in the short term, but long term low HRV can lead to chronic symptoms. Mrs M monitors hers daily and has done for a couple of years. I’ll ask her for more info, shes the nerdy science boff in our family
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just looking at your graph again ( and don’t take my word for it), if at absolute rest your HRV peaks at 80 for august, but you’re drifting along at around 40ms for most of the month, it may suggest that there’s not enough rest in your month. This would have to assume that you’re wearing you watch consistently and catching all data. I’m sure there are more experienced boffins on here to through some info at this.
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I only wear the watch from around 8am - 6pm, and take it off if I exercise between those hours, so there will be huge chunks of missing data.
It’s just another bloody metric to track, innit - how many are there???
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My “rest” days generally end up with walking 10 miles, doing DIY, lumbering some garden stuff into place, or some other frankly ridiculous task that only I care about (such as vacuuming the car, or jet washing the drive, etc)
HRV is a measure of the difference in time between beats. Ie a HR of 60bpm is never actually 1.00 seconds between beats, every beat will be 0.995, 0.989, 1.008 etc apart. This is a good thing because it shows the two sides of your subconscious nervous system, sympathetic (fight & flight) and parasympathetic (rest & digest) are constantly active and making fine adjustments.
HRV can be a valuable way to measure how much total stress your body is under. It will be affected by work, life, travel, alcohol etc, and can therefore help guide whether you’re ready to train. Some studies have shown people who had rest days based on poor HRV days performed better than those who trained through, even when they were completely asymptomatic.
Comparing your HRV to someone else’s is semi-meaningless, in the same way as measuring resting or max heart rates. You basically monitor it in the same way you would resting HR, it’s just a lot more sensitive. If you have a regular baseline, and then suddenly for a few days it’s completely off it suggests your body is struggling to cope from an additional stress, be that from life or over training or illness etc.
I don’t measure, mostly because I don’t really measure anything other than what I consider key, and also because phone app with finger sensor doesn’t seem to work well on my phone, although it is generally very well reviewed. But it’s probably the first thing I would consider measuring as a daily metric, and if I did I would take it once a morning every day and then largely forget about it until became very abnormal.
Some of the main apps don’t tell you the actual time difference (because it’s largely meaningless) but give you your personal ‘readiness’ score based on your baseline. Indeed it’s one of the ways Garmin gives you your performance condition at start of session, along with tracking how responsive HR is to exercise load.
That said, the biggest reason I don’t use anythibg like this is because it would only add a tiny bit. If I felt awful I still wouldn’t train, and if I felt great I still would train regardless what it said. But it might help those questionable days you’re not sure on, especially after months/years of regular baseline data and seeing how yours responds.
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And all this is based on the precision tool that is optical wrist HR
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