I've just come back from running the Plymouth half marathon and for the first time I thought I'd keep a check on my heart rate for the duration of the race.
Imagine my horror to notice that for the full 1 hour 40 mins my heart rate bounced off 195 BPM... it dropped no lover than 188 BPM, is this normal?
I know that on the treadmill during a sprint finish I've had my heart rate as high as 213 BPM which again I find pretty astonishing...
Is there anything I should be worried about?
I'm 31, and reasonably fit (I believe)...
Thoughts?
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'But you're not an athlete' - says fat, florid, probably high blood pressured doctor,
'I thought amateurs just went out and ran for a bit.'
Says it all really.
You probably averaged 90% of your MHR, which is about right for a flat out half.
Do you use it at all in training - you should have an idea of what HR you'll be running at ?
Max I can hold, for shortish distances, say a mile, is 193 to 194 on a good day, so yours is not far out in the higher end, based upon what people report here.
56 RHR, age 45. about a stone overweight for a runner.
Today in the Swansea Bay 10k I seemed to be averaging around 177 (which if you go off one of the age calculations should be my maximum), though I hit a max of 217 going slightly uphill (highest before that in training was 195 ... I'm 43 and 14 stone 11. Training since Feb this year, and run 3 10k races now ... only recently started using HRM.
Is any of that a concern???
I did my first 10k on Sunday (The Run 11 in Northampton), and my average was 181bpm, peaking at 203. I wouldn't mind, but I was taking it slowly because I have a bad knee, and at no point did I feel even slightly stressed or need to slow down. Average speed was only 11kph. Quite frankly, my heart rate hits 70% of max if I go for a walk! And no it's not because I'm unfit. I've been cycling on my exercise bike for an average of an hour a day for over a year now. Interesting to note, I can't get my heart rate above 170 when I'm cycling.
On the other hand, Meldy will always be a babe!