Question re: heart rate

[7rider]

Regina - I am interested by your words here.

Do you mean you cant get your heart rate up on the road?

See, if thats what you're saying, I find that interesting because I can't get my HR as high on the spin bike as I can when I am on the road. So I use the spin bike for specific rides - like cycling at 90 or 95 cadence for 45 minutes, or doing step up intervals.

The other training that involves pushing my LT, or hills, I do out on the road, as I cant seem to simulate it effectively indoors.

Oops.. Sorry for the delay, Raven. I haven't checked this thread in a while.

No, I"m saying I can't keep my HR low on the road. It's always high.
If my maxHR is 185, 80% is 148 (185*0.8, unless I'm doing my math wrong). So the 70-80% range would be ~130-148. I routinely ride in the 165 range. For instance, my most recent ride (63 miles, lots of hills), my average HR was 152 and max 182 (avg. cadence was 63, but that includes all time spent coasting, too, so I guess that measures low, since I generally aim to pedal in the 90-95 range, too.). In contrast, I just did 20 minutes on the Concept II tonight (rowing machine, so probably not directly comparable) and my average was 124, max 145. I intend to ride rollers tomorrow night...I'll see how it goes with that.

[Veronica]

Oops.. Sorry for the delay, Raven. I haven't checked this thread in a while.

(avg. cadence was 63, but that includes all time spent coasting, too, so I guess that measures low, since I generally aim to pedal in the 90-95 range, too.).

My HRM doesn't factor in the time spent coasting, are you sure that yours does?

Can you get a graph that shows what your cadence is over time? That would be an easy way to see if it is averaging in the zeros. I wouldn't like it if mine averaged in the zeroes.

V.

[7rider]

My HRM doesn't factor in the time spent coasting, are you sure that yours does?

Can you get a graph that shows what your cadence is over time? That would be an easy way to see if it is averaging in the zeros. I wouldn't like it if mine averaged in the zeroes.

V.

Yeah, my Garmin allows you to plot cadence over time (or distance), overlaying HR, speed, grade, or a whole bunch of other variables.
Here's a graph of my cadence over time for the ride I mentioned. I imagine it picks up all those "zeros" (I'm not sure how it calculates a negative cadence, however! ). I guess this means I spend way too much time coasting, eh??

[RoadRaven]

So, if you can't keep your HR low... maybe its just you?
Maybe you just naturally have a higher HR?

I don't know these things.

You seem to have a good cadence going... I find when I mash, my HR goes up now... it was the other way around when I first started cycling.

Spinning would send my HR through the roof - but I have been working specifically on cadence over the past 6 weeks or so because I have finally understood (after two years!!!) the advantage spinning in a race can be...

So now my body is used to, spinning does not push my HR up? Perhaps this has something to do with it? Are you getting your body used to higher cadences?

[7rider]

I guess I just have a high HR on the bike. I can't really see a correlation b/t cadence and HR for me (it's more linked to speed and/or % grade). This past season is really the first season in many years that I've focussed on cadance. Perhaps with more miles, I'll see a link.

[Artisan]

I have a question on max heart rate. Today while running I pushed myself to see how high I could get my heart rate. I got it to 192, but I've never seen that on my road bike. The highest I've seen on the road bike was 185. I talked to a friend today, she told me that she read somewhere that you can't use your running heart rate max for guidelines on your training zones for bike riding, is this correct?