Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22630860)

Because chests assplode!

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22630871)

I just can't get mine to do that.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22630847)

Why is it cycling folk wisdom that old people need to limit their HR to some arbitrary number or they'll drop dead?

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22630894)

Some say they've been told by their doctors.

I'd love to get mine that high again; hopefully soon I'll be able to run hard enough to do that. It doesn't happen on the trainer.

Originally Posted by bampilot06 (Post 22630743)

made the call of shame this morning and my wife said suck it up, then hung up on me. Had to really dig deep to make it home. A couple of times I thought about just letting it all end.


Im not sure why, but this mornings ride sucked. It started bad too. Alarm went off at 330 am. I got caffeinated, suited up and went to go and my head light was not on my bike. I had charged all my gear the previous day, everything was present but my head light. I spent one whole hour silently tearing my whole house apart trying to find it. Found it in my unborn sons room. Grabbed it and launched.

heart rate off the gate was high, I was keeping a decent pace but not pushing it. Was def in zone 2 most of the time but my heart rate was in the 160s. Mile 40 I started to feel normal but my massive quads developed a massive cramp. Never have I had cramping like this and it was in both legs. I know I def was dehydrated, but over all it was depressing.

Called the wife at the end of the metric. Todays goal was a century but the big man up stairs must have had other plans.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22630871)

I just can't get mine to do that.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22630913)

I think a lot of GPs are not acquainted with endurance sports, or endurance athletes, and for them, if one of their more sedentary patients told them their HR had been > 120 for 4 1/2 hours, it would be some kind of major health crisis, rather than a fairly relaxed Sunday afternoon ride.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 22630953)

Double take of the day:

A pick up truck with a snow plow just went by.

#toosoon

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22630932)

Last time I did a Zwift race, I got close to that. I find it hard to keep going in Ramp Tests, but in a race I'm not watching my power and HR, just trying to figure when I need to make an almighty effort and whether I can sustain it to the line. Ramp tests I run my HR up into the 160s. Races I've gone over 170.

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 22630953)

Double take of the day:

A pick up truck with a snow plow just went by.
#toosoon

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22630847)

Why is it cycling folk wisdom that old people need to limit their HR to some arbitrary number or they'll drop dead?

Originally Posted by Eric F (Post 22631004)

My current max is 189. When I'm feeling good, I can sustain a hard effort in the mid-170s, and make repeated short efforts to 180. However, I've always had a high HR. In my prime (early 30s), I was seeing a max of 207, and could climb for extended periods at 192.

Originally Posted by Eric F (Post 22631004)

My current max is 189. When I'm feeling good, I can sustain a hard effort in the mid-170s, and make repeated short efforts to 180. However, I've always had a high HR. In my prime (early 30s), I was seeing a max of 207, and could climb for extended periods at 192.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22630994)

Last week I did a ramp, in 3 min/25W steps from Z1 to about 1.25 x FTP, for lactate testing. It definitely helped to have two guys yelling at me. No way I could have completed it on my own. However, my HR only got to 170 and it routinely gets higher than that when I ride with the local knuckleheads. I can even hit 180 once or twice a year, but it just hurts, never assplodes, and I don't die.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22631098)

You're sure about that? Maybe this is Hell.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22631108)

Christopher Marlowe

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22631122)

It has never crossed my mind to keep track of my heart rate, and you guys have been doing it since time immemorial.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize2 (Post 22631122)

It has never crossed my mind to keep track of my heart rate, and you guys have been doing it since time immemorial.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22631135)

Once I got an HRM, I discovered that my Perceived Exertion was wildly out of sync with it at time. E.g., there's a couple miles of 1-2% descent - straight, no stops, wide bike lanes - that I'd go zooming down, thinking I was hardly exerting effort, but I was actually doing Tempo.