Andy - Your V02 max was 55ml/kg/min. This means that your V02 is above average but you’re not going to be in the big leagues. They reckon that to be elite you need to start with 60 +ml/kg/min. You can improve this by losing weight. As it’s how many litres per KILO per minute. Easy.

Mike - The graph below is the plot of my Vo2/ml/min/KG. I reached the start of the 18kmph section on the treadmill before blowing up. The test involved starting at 11kmph on a 1% incline, and every 3 minutes raising the speed by 1kmph until exhaustion. I'm sure that with a bit of training behind me, I can raise the Vo2, and its great to know which HR's I should be traning at now.

Andy - So you can see that your HR goes up in a pretty straight line with each speed increase.

Your lactate has 2 spikes which determine your HR zones spike one 157 bpm is when you hit threshold, your body is creating Lactate at a rate that you can’t clear. So tempo runs are run above this HR and speed (14km/ph).

The second spike is your lactate turnpoint at 189 BPM, this is when you are totally anaerobic, and for you it’s not worth going beyond this point unless you plan on racing 800m!

Oh and if your looking at training zones etc your max is 198 and not your predicted 191BPM!

Your running economy score is very good (winter et,al 2007)

Mike - Interestingly enough, the Balke test (google it) predicted that my Vo2 would be 54, so that is a pretty impressive result from a non laboratory test.