My Heart Will Go On: Heart Arrhythmia and Running
I’m writing this because I found so little information in going through my encounter with a heart issue brought on by (or perhaps brought to light by) my long-distance running life. I hope this can be an encouragement to endurance athletes who encounter arrhythmias or sinus node irregularities.
I was training for the 2024 Houston Marathon. This marathon was my fourth training cycle and it would have been my third marathon. (I had to scratch the Chicago marathon with a hamstring injury through which I ran too long.) I was a month out from Houston. My coach assigned me Yasso’s 800s. This is a tough workout that is meant to predict your marathon time. The average of what you can do in 10 800s with about equal time rest after each rep is supposed to give in minutes and seconds what your marathon time would be in hours and minutes. My average was under 3:30. I was psyched since this predicted a 10-minute+ PR.
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