Weird W3 R3 completed

[Jmax03]

Just completed W3R3. Found it easy second time round as the other runs ☺️ Weird thing was my heart rate was up 20 bpm on usual rate. Everything I did was the same as usual.... Same kit, shoe's, diet, liquid intake, treadmill, incline time of day and everything else. Feel ok in myself just thought it was a bit strange.

[Beachcomber66 Graduate]

I have found only three things which affect normal average heart rate; increased pace, a touch of asthma or body fighting something like a bug (my heart rate went up 20bpm on an otherwise like for like run after I had this year's flu jab). So long as I feel ok and my average sticks between the 130's and mid 150's on normal runs (bearing in mind my age) I don't worry. Average has come down as I have got fitter anyway. Probably just a one off?

[Jmax03 in reply to Beachcomber66]

Hopefully a one off. Your average is pretty much the same as mine, I'm 43, and yes as I've got fitter its coming down slowly but surely. The only thing I can think of is I have just given up my ecig. I was using just a tiny amount of nicotine in the liquid after giving up smoking 6 months ago. Could possibly be my body adapting to life without nicotine.