13 October 2024

Garmin had an elegant solution to my heart problem

Remember how my heartbeat goes way over my max HR? Heuristically, it should be around 163 (220 minus my age). But, as I have reported before, I often go over that. In fact, look at today’s run… I peaked at 172 bpm… that is 106% of Max HR.

I think today Garmin got as worried as me. Its solution though was devastatingly simple, yet effective. It notified me that it is going to use 180 as my Max HR from now on!! Heuristics be danged! Why did I not think of that?

That corresponds to a 40 year old’s Max HR. With my growing years, my conversations with my skeleton has become louder and louder. But I will take this heart report to my “W” column!!

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11 August 2024

Signing off Ayers Rock / UIuru with a 5K run

To give you an idea about how exhausting this run was for me – nearly 40% of the time I was at 100% or above of my Max Heart Rate and peaked at 182 (112% of my Max Heart Rate)

This was no Outback Marathon – the research into which got me to learn about Uluru in 2015 – still It was worth it to put the 35th country with a 5K run or more in the books.