Even pace, even heart-rate

Despite the Alps currently under mountains of snow, Austrian athlete, Christian Amon has still managed to get out training, adopting a steady training method that coach Eddie Fletcher is happy with.

Christian ran over 22km, a half marathon, in two hours at an average pace of 11.3km/h. He consumed 1819kcal and his average heart rate was 141bpm, 80% of his maximum.


"Christian's log is interesting in the fact that it looks like the Red Bull X-Alps athletes have already worked out that even pace, even heart-rate at moderate intensity is the way to do these things." Says Eddie. "And I agree. This mitigates fatigue and distributes energy efficiently."

Christian was able to monitor the speed on his run using a Suunto Foot POD paired with a t6c heart rate monitor. The Foot POD is the ideal solution for measuring speed and distance in running. Once calibrated to the individual, two acceleration sensors in the POD provide even more accurate results than a GPS. It is more sensitive to a change of pace, is lighter, less battery consuming and costs less.

Athletes should leave it attached to the shoe so the position is always the same. This is an important detail to keep getting precise information.