HIGH HEARTRATE

[Jon]

I have been running off and on for about a year and a half now and have always been concerned about
my high heart rate. When I started running I used a schedule I found in a book, run for 2 mins. walk
2 and slowly worked up to 30mins of non-stop running. During the runs (30 minutes) my HR would start
out low and go up to the 190's in about 9 minutes and stay there, sometimes it would go up to 205 or
210. I feel comfortable at these rates during my runs. I ran a 5k last September and it got up to
220. I just ran the same 5k on Saturday and it got up to 233. My hr monitor is accurate when I am at
rest (low 50's) but when it is high I cannot count that fast so I don't know if its off. I am 33 @
185lbs. I improved my 5k time by 4 minutes.

I plan to keep running and I will probably get a stress test in a few weeks to see if I will get a
heart attack or not. Any one here have a similar HR? If so what do you do besides slow down?

Thanks Jon

[Gentolm]

Jon my data maxHR=200 restHR=40 70%=152 never seen 233 just 218 and a 215 / i check my monitor with
my pulseoxymeter both are good or both are way off , as u ask , well i just slow down , plodzilla

Jon wrote:
>
> I have been running off and on for about a year and a half now and have always been concerned
> about my high heart rate. When I started running I used a schedule I found in a book, run for 2
> mins. walk 2 and slowly worked up to 30mins of non-stop running. During the runs (30 minutes) my
> HR would start out low and go up to the 190's in about 9 minutes and stay there, sometimes it
> would go up to 205 or 210. I feel comfortable at these rates during my runs. I ran a 5k last
> September and it got up to 220. I just ran the same 5k on Saturday and it got up to 233. My hr
> monitor is accurate when I am at rest (low 50's) but when it is high I cannot count that fast so I
> don't know if its off. I am 33 @ 185lbs. I improved my 5k time by 4 minutes.
>
> I plan to keep running and I will probably get a stress test in a few weeks to see if I will get a
> heart attack or not. Any one here have a similar HR? If so what do you do besides slow down?
>
> Thanks Jon

[Rick++]

All that reallly matters is that is not zero.

[Steve P]

According to the Sally Edwards books, there's no correlation between a high Heart Rate Max and and
fitness level or ability. Same for low Heart Rate Max.

I'd say, don't worry about it.

"Jon" <jon.j.marshall@koops(nospam).com> wrote in message news:vmtsd8pc25l833@corp.supernews.com...
> I have been running off and on for about a year and a half now and have always been concerned
> about my high heart rate. When I started running I used a schedule I found in a book, run for 2
> mins. walk 2 and slowly
worked
> up to 30mins of non-stop running. During the runs (30 minutes) my HR
would
> start out low and go up to the 190's in about 9 minutes and stay there, sometimes it would go up
> to 205 or 210. I feel comfortable at these rates during my runs. I ran a 5k last September and it
> got up to 220. I just
ran
> the same 5k on Saturday and it got up to 233. My hr monitor is accurate when I am at rest (low
> 50's) but when it is high I cannot count that fast
so
> I don't know if its off. I am 33 @ 185lbs. I improved my 5k time by 4 minutes.
>
> I plan to keep running and I will probably get a stress test in a few
weeks
> to see if I will get a heart attack or not. Any one here have a similar
HR?
> If so what do you do besides slow down?
>
> Thanks Jon

[MJuric]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:57:12 -0400, "Jon" <jon.j.marshall@koops(nospam).com> wrote:

>I have been running off and on for about a year and a half now and have always been concerned about
>my high heart rate. When I started running I used a schedule I found in a book, run for 2 mins.
>walk 2 and slowly worked up to 30mins of non-stop running. During the runs (30 minutes) my HR would
>start out low and go up to the 190's in about 9 minutes and stay there, sometimes it would go up to
>205 or 210. I feel comfortable at these rates during my runs. I ran a 5k last September and it got
>up to 220. I just ran the same 5k on Saturday and it got up to 233. My hr monitor is accurate when
>I am at rest (low 50's) but when it is high I cannot count that fast so I don't know if its off. I
>am 33 @ 185lbs. I improved my 5k time by 4 minutes.
>
>I plan to keep running and I will probably get a stress test in a few weeks to see if I will get a
>heart attack or not. Any one here have a similar HR? If so what do you do besides slow down?
>
>Thanks Jon
>

Although there may be nothing wrong it is not entirely "Average" to have that high of a
maxHR. I think when anyone strays REALLY far from average it doesn't hurt to get an experts
opinion, as it looks like you are doing in the form of a stress test.

~Matt