Strap Glitches & Steady Running – Peak Phase 1 | Week 1 | Run 4

My Road to TOWaterfront 42K

This one had a bit of “tech drama.” My HR strap threw a spike early, and the numbers never really settled cleanly. But the run itself? Smooth, steady, and controlled. Sometimes the gadgets distract, but the body knows the truth.

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📊 Metrics at a Glance

• Duration: 35:29
  
• Distance: 5.37 km
  
• Average Pace: 6:36/km (10:38/mi)
  
• NGP: 6:23/km
  
• Calories: 448 kcal
  
• Elevation Gain/Loss: 109 m / 119 m
  
• Average HR: 148 bpm | Max HR: 165 bpm
  
• Pa:HR: Invalid – strap interference
  
• rTSS / hrTSS: 56 / 40
  
• IF (pace): 0.93 | IF (HR): 0.78
  
• Cadence: 164 spm avg | Max 176 spm
  
• VAM: 184 m/h (≈ 0.93 W/kg)
  

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📦 What Your Numbers Say

• HR averaged 148 bpm – steady aerobic effort despite tech noise.
  
• NGP (6:23/km) shows true effort was sharper than raw pace indicates.
  
• Cadence at 164 spm was consistent, confirming stable mechanics.
  
• Pa:HR flagged as invalid due to strap interference and pacing anomalies in the Colour data.
  

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🧢 Coach’s Corner

Execution vs Plan
Planned as an aerobic mid-week run. ✔️ Executed to spec: 35 minutes controlled, with steady HR trends once noise is set aside.

Performance Quality
The run was high quality in execution, but metrics need context. With the strap glitch, effort judgment leans on HR trends, RPE, and pacing – all of which confirm control.

Advisability
Advisable. You didn’t let faulty data push you into chasing or second-guessing. You trusted feel, which is vital at this stage of Peak Phase.

Hilliness Impact
109 m of gain made it a rolling aerobic run. NGP accounts for terrain, showing the run landed right where it should.

Efficiency Check Formal Pa:HR cannot be trusted (strap glitch produced nonsense values). But based on HR trend (rising modestly to 150 bpm) and steady pacing, aerobic control was intact.

Takeaway
Ignore the strap noise – the run itself was efficient, stable, and exactly what Peak Phase calls for.

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Conclusion

Not every run will give you clean data. Today proved the body’s signals matter more than the strap’s. A steady effort banked for the Peak build.