DO YOU TRUST YOUR HEART (RATE)
AS SOON AS I SAW A HEART RATE MONITOR, I knew I had to have one. The idea that I could tell how hard my body was working was...
... too compelling to ignore.
It's the best metric.
Don't get me wrong,
I'm a power dork, too.
But, I believe hr is superior in many ways.
For example, gearing up to go for a ride today I looked at the monitor and saw an hr indicative of...
... a healthy body.
58 bpm.
That's my normal before getting going.
I hadn't seen that for nearly 3 weeks.
Having the flu and then pneumonia will do that to us, and keep doing it...
... until we are recovered.
Power alone would never tell me that, but...
... X power with Y heart rate is a good indicator of what's going on inside our wonderful bodies.
I don't race with power.
It's irrelevant.
I'm either making the break or not.
The only time I watched power in a race was at Leadville since racing at over 10,000', when I live at sea level will never allow to put out the power I'm used to at a given heart rate.
Because heart rate lags, checking to make sure I wasn't going over the appropriate power at the start of a climb is helpful.
Mostly, for racing, I keep HR and Cadence on the screen.
Sometimes distance,
it's nice to know where we are relation to the finish line.
Short MTB races,
I usually just toss the monitor in the jersey pocket and review the data later.
Anyway, it's flu season...
... if in doubt, check HR out.
Hopefully, you'll get lucky and skip all that...
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