Just curious, as I know everyone is different, but ever since I’ve been running proper (not just for a bus I mean) I’ve had a heart rate that has raised eyebrows in other runners when I mention it, on a regular basis.
Other than a very red face, it doesn’t effect me, I feel fine, and it just bobbles along averaging 170 ish. As an example the picture on top is 5k at 11:07 m/mile and and the bottom one is 10:37 m/mile from Brighton 10k
Has anyone else experienced this? I’m going to do some more slow and long runs to try and build stamina now I can sustain 5k and 10ks easily.
For context I try and do 1 day fast intervals in a track, 1 race paced 5k at Parkrun and then slow and steady 10k, once a week.
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Mine has always been high and, like you, never seems to bother me. I just have to think exercise and my heart rate goes up! Some years ago I was training for a cycling event, the Etape du Tour (a stage of the Tour de France ridden by amatures). After some months of training, including the hills of Yorkshire and Derbyshire I had a fitness test at a new gym (where I had also been doing spinning classes a couple of times a week)....... the verdict was that I was as fit as the average couch potato mainly due to heart rate exercise levels 😮. My rate when resting in the cafe during/after ride outs was always higher than anyone else's in the group.
Just done my fastest HM 2:14 and during training my heart rate averages were in the high 150s-170s for many training runs. So I gave up worrying about it ages ago as I can't see it changing after many years (over 40) of always doing some form of exercise, strenuous or otherwise.
It seems high according to the "normal" rules. But we're all different and as long as you feel fine I wouldn't worry too much. I used to have a high resting heart rate, but exercise has brought it well down. I still shoot up really quickly when I run though, although I have got better and I do try to keep my heart-rate lower on most of my runs. It means I've got a lot slower though, which is frustrating. But then I'm never going to win any races and I'm doing this to maintain fitness, so I try not to fret too much!
I hit 193 last year and suffered no ill effects at all, apart from a bright red face and lots of gasping for breath... thought that could be normal after a fast run, up a gentle incline My resting HR is about 50. I guess some people just have a large heart rate range.
Without knowing your age it is difficult to know whether that is a particularly high heart rate. Max heart rate theoretically decreases with age. One crude calculation for your max heart rate is 210- your age.
I have the same condition, my maximum heart rate was 178 when I was running, and my resting heart rate is 50-55 , I think its normal acording to your age,
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My resting HR is about 50. I guess some people just have a large heart rate range.
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