Exercising with Heart Rate Monitors

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Heart rate monitors have got to be one of the best motivational fitness tools out there. You can keep track of your body's exertion during workouts and compare that directly to your dietary intake. Best of all, you can share your workout results with other HRM users here who can provide great feedback and support. Share things like: Calories burned, Max HR, Avg HR, or whatever other results you want.

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Dead man jogging

posted by nutrexercus on 7:31 pm

Well. Stop running for over a month, then run 5 miles straight. Maybe not the smartest thing in the world :).

It pretty warm today, about 80 degrees. While I was running up the first hill my HR was already 186, and I thought.."Shit!" Then as I made my way toward the top of the first hill, I was at 194 or so. Apparently my Max HR is 192. However, I got up to 200 today, although as you all know HRMs are not 100 percent acurate, but it sure felt like 200. After the first hill, nearly everytime I glanced back at my HRM it was 190, 193, 194, 195.

After I reached the docs, I walked in circles for about 5 minutes hoping my HR would go down, but only to 168! It refused to go down any further. So I ran back the other 2.5 miles, sure enough, within just a few minutes I was back in the 190's! Then the nasty hills came, It's like I was walk running, but still jogging. My HR has never gone this high as far as I remember, 199 at a glance, but the watch claims it went to 200.. Ugh.

On top of that, there was lots of runners. I absolutely hate being passed, so I wanted to maintain a steady pace. Luckily I wasn't passed. But I felt my endurance was lacking. Running is so hard!

Exercise: Trail running - Lake Chabot

Equipment: Suunto T6c, Garmin etrex vista hCX

Duration: 57:12
Lowest HR: 144
Average HR: 190
Highest HR: 200
Cals burned: 8222
Suunto Training Effect: 5.0 (out of 5)
Time in zone(115-160): 01:00
Above zone(160+): 56:20
Below zone(115-): 00:00

Distance: 4.8 miles
Average Speed: 5.5mph
Max Speed: 8.10mph
Total altitude: 575ft

As you can see my HR didn't give in, ANY TIME at all.. It was quite the miserable run.

Here's what the trail looks like. It's actually pretty nice scenery, minus the huff puffs..