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Good Bad & The Monkey
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Your walking HR is? Your resting HR is? Your first AM HR is?
I just got a Garmin too for Christmas. I never monitored my HR before and was shocked as to how high my HR was at what I thought was a normal pace for me. Does anyone know how accurate the HRM is on the garmin?
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
It's accurate enough. What is not accurate is the ranges that come set as the default and "adjust" when you add your personal data (like age). Find a good protocol for determining your max HR and use that. I thought mine was high too, until I listened to Scout (and others). I forget the details of the test that Scout prescribes, but I just ran the last 3/4 mile to a mile of every race as fast as I could - this had the benefit of me passing a bunch of people. After a few months and 5 or 6 races - it stopped going up. I'm using this as my maximum.
According to the Garmin and other online calculations my MHR should be like 185 or so. When I did my run that felt "comfortable" I hit a max of 173. Should I be looking at Peak MHR or Average HR?
Dave
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