It's been about 25 years since I put on a mask and drooled on a bike for a VO 2 test but I did it again on Friday. Suprising to me it went faster than I imagined. If you know VO 2 testing, you know that isn't great. It isn't golf. You want to go far and have a high VO 2 so you have longer to onset of fatigue and the ceiling that keeps you from doing more.
Part of the brevity of the test was the one minute vs three minute intervals I had imagined. That makes it hard and quick or quickly hard. The one plus was the comfort of the mask- it was remeniscent of Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs but green. That'll haunt you for a while. Big perk is I got to take it home and I can wash it in the dishwasher. I'm trying to think when I might want to wear it again.
So the findings? Vo2 close to 50ml/kg/min which is pretty good considering that an average college age female is 37-42-ish. Yet, my problem seems to be where I've taken to training at higher intensities (due partly to short of time workouts) is not optimal for fat burning. I am going to have to go back to long slow workouts for a while and get my body used to burning fat for fuel in order to help me with the duration of this event I've got on the calendar.
I went for an endurance run today with no HR indications - and found I was wayyyyyy out of fat burning zones if we take the bike test to run. Something like 20-30 beats over - that's a lot of slowing down. Hoping that with more exposure to longer runs that's going to change sooner rather than later. Likely it will- long runs on the treadmill haven't been high on my list of things I love to do.
Swim tomorrow and run again Tuesday. Bike is getting tuned up so its ready for a long, and quiet, ride on Wed. Coach Julie sent me a week of workouts post VO 2 and so here we go!
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