Poll on RHR

Training for Triathlons since May 08. Resting Heart Rate: 42-45 in morning

Somewhere in the 50 range.

Low RHR is nothing important unless you use it as an indicator of whether or not you are recovering properly.  As in if you wake up every day and it is 50 - 52 and then after a few hard weeks of pushing it maybe it won't go below 58 or something.  This is a red flag that something may be going on in your body.

Like Max HR, it will vary by individual greatly.  There are elite marathoners whose resting HR is only around 60.  Doesn't mean someone who is in the 30's range is more fit, it just means their body is different.  Chances are, those elite marathoner also have a max of somewhere in the 200 range.

What is this heart rate you speak of....?

seriously though...60; training since May.

Training since 1-07, RHR low 40's.

Max heart rate according to stress test 203.  I'm 41, the 220-age formula doesn't work for the individual.

Interesting stuff....

Running off and on since 2001, tris since 4/06, ultrarunning since 7/07... yet my RHR has always been ~60.

This is my 5th Tri Season and I am heading into my 3rd as a marathoner.

I have lost a total pf 50 Pounds and currently have a waking RHR of 42. (Down from something in the Mid-60s) My Max HR is 181 and as expected, is down a couple of beats from when I started to run a couple of years ago. (This is my tested Max, not calculated)

I will let the experts here debate the significance (Or Non-Significance) of HR stats

Aside from a few years when I was doing a lot of weight training and not getting much sleep (business venture), I've been doing some sort of endurance sport since jr high... I'm 44 now, so that gives an idea of the "how long" question.

My rhr is pretty low. Too low in some cases.  Most recently I did one of those blood pressure things at the local pharmacy. 45 bpm.

When I went in for my foot surgery (4 weeks ago tomorrow) and they did their monitor before I had any drugs, the alarms kept going off because my pulse was TOO low (32-36). The anesthesiologist had to give me drugs to get my pulse up before surgery.

hmm.. I have no idea what my RHR is  

I think that's kinda funny.  I'm guessing they're not used to that at all.

My RHR is the same as my age.

I'm in my second year of tri training.