5.9.14 Yahoo! It's Friday!

It's got to be the monitor--if your HR really was 242 you would be near death! I'm assuming if you kept running for the next 50 minutes you actually felt normal. Are you outside or on the treadmill? When I'm running or biking outside, the monitor consistently malfunctions in a few places along my run/bike routes. I can only assume this is because of some kind of electrical interference. (There are wires everywhere in Saigon, some of which are probably amateur hookup jobs, so this isn't surprising.) I often bike in a port area, so maybe there is some kind of navigational signal that it picks up. It is always at the point where I'm closest to a turn in the river, and there's some kind of beacon there.

If inside or it isn't always happening in the same location, could be a number of things like poor contact of the sensor with your skin (I had one that would lose contact because the strap was too loose), skin/monitor strap too dry (also had one that I had to smear with water before starting in cool weather), cold temps outside, etc. I'd check the manual or website and try what they suggest, or call the service number.

Only one workout today for a change: One hour trainer ride at 5:15 AM, 3 X 10 minutes hard. AC really wasn't up to much and I think I set a world sweat record. Actually went to get another fan with 20 minutes to go as really thought I would puke/melt. Ready to start taper!

Good Morning

Pool day for me at lunch.

Definitely sounds like the HR Monitor needs to go back Kim that's really wonky, I have never had one behave like that the worst I had was one that read about 10 BPM high and I knew that so I just used it as it was till one of the Puppers got it one day and decided it tasted to good to resist.

You might try re pairing it again and see if that makes a difference that all I can think of right now.

Have a great day all

Another slow 2 mile run this morning. Legs were mush from last nights ride - my longest this year but only 13.5 miles.

Teach,
I've had errant readings with my HR monitor also but only on the bike and going down hill. My shirt and/or jacket get to flapping and I think the HR monitor is reading that along with my heartrate. When I'm on a flat or pulling a hill its normal. You must run fast...

After school run for me, nothing big, still feeling fatigued since StG.

However, Kim, I decided to jump on the HR bandwagon and got a new Garmin 310XT with the HRM. Excited to play with the new toy, pluis sarting implementing HR in my training

1600 meter swim after work. Typically run on Fridays but I have a 10k tomorrow morning.

4 mile run practicing following a pace rather than just hammering out the first 2 miles then suffering the last 1.5 miles and barely not quitting for the last 1/2 mile