Awesome, thanks. I've downloaded a .pdf user guide, as long as the charging/comms adapter is there i'm good to go. How long have you had it, and what made it redundant to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
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Awesome, thanks. I've downloaded a .pdf user guide, as long as the charging/comms adapter is there i'm good to go. How long have you had it, and what made it redundant to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
I remembered to put the charging cable in!Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Can't recall exactly when I bought it but the user manual was printed in 2016 so I would guess 2016/17.
I liked it so much as it does the basics well that in 2019 I bought one for my son, who was running at the time, but now doesn't use it as he has "retired" from running and just swims 4/5 times a week and plays football.
The one I got for him was reduced as it has a yellow strap which he did not like so we swapped, and I quite like it!
Like I said before see how you get on with it and let me know what you want to do in a few weeks or so when hopefully you will have shaken off your lurgy.
I'm a bit concerned that i'll get hooked on all the data it provides, and decide i can't live without a wearable. At least i'll know the time; currently i have to ask other runners warming up for the time at races, the most important thing for me is to be warming up near someone with a watch! It's astonishing how scarce publicly viewable timepieces of one sort or another are these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
I eventually got a GPS watch approx a year ago (again kindly provided free of charge, by a very occasional forumite and friend)
I must admit i got quite engrossed in looking at all the data. Particularly looking at my rep sessions in minute detail on the PC screen to see where i could improve.
Although now the novelty has worn off, the only thing i find useful over and above a normal stopwatch is the fact that i can measure my distance for reps and total run distance. I tend to not even bother checking my pace when doing reps/races now.... feeling that i know when i'm pushing or have got more to give.
I have used Garmins since you had to wind them up, including on my bike, and I find the heart monitor useful because it indicates when I am in the "red zone" and also when I have "switched off" and need to give myself a mental kick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
It's arrived. I almost cut through the strap unpacking it and thereby buying it automatically before i'd even seen it. The big news is, my resting heart rate is 48, any less and i'd be in anthony kay's back garden getting eaten by red kites.
48 is good.
The last time i had mine properly measured was 49, although i recently self-measured 44 using a stopwatch (process not 100% accurate!!)
I was rather surprised to find, while having various measurements taken while I was an experimental subject in 2017 (some research to do with blood vessel health), that my resting heart rate was 42bpm. Anyway, the red kites haven't come for me yet, probably because the territory around my place is patrolled by a buzzard, which apparently doesn't regard me as very tasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Interesting first session with the Garmin tonight, hills with Horsforth Harriers. Right from the off i could have sworn the watch was lying to me- my heart rate was up at 102, but i was barely blowing above normal, so steady i could use my nose comfortably.
Top of the first 1min hill rep and i'm jelly-legged and totally exhausted, i look at the watch and it says 105...should i expect that?
It wasn't until the 4th rep it started to finish up at 135, and 148 on the 5th. On the recoveries, though, it never got anywhere near resting despite my breathing slowing dramatically.
At the end of the next set of 6 on a different hill it hit the 170s fairly consistently in the last 3 reps, and never dropped below 145.
So basically i'm confused by the fact that my heart rate doesn't in any way reflect my oxygen requirements, the two seem totally unconnected. Is this normal? I can start out with very steady breathing with the Garmin giving me a zone figure of 3.2. HR does not always seem to reflect percieved effort...is this right?
Well, first things first.
The South to North postal service seems to be in better health than the North to South one. Perhaps the horses are losing shoes coming over Shap or there might be a Highwayman or two still active in the Crowden area as I still haven't received my original or replacement FRA 2022 calendar.
With regards to the Forerunner 35 and HR info mine tells me that my average resting is 49, not bad for an old codger. However it sometimes tells me that my HR has been as high as 210 whilst running even though I don't feel as if I'm on the limit.
How accurate they are I do not know but I suspect that variables like how tight is the strap, how sweaty you are, and in winter, do you wear it over a baselayer sleeve cuff will come into play.
I don't tend to look at the HR when I run as I'll frighten myself but no doubt if you do then you will get a feel for it and hopefully be able to get some benefit.
I think if you want really accurate HR info then you best get one of those ladies bra type things that professional footballers wear. ;)