Good Days and Bad Days...today is bad!

[Grog]

Hi Heather

I'm sorry you felt so bad at your spinning class. Is it possible that you would have been pushing it a little bit? It's important to build in rest in your training schedule... A day or two a week, and a week a month too (with lower intensities, less volume, etc...).

Regarding your heart rate, I might be wrong, but I don't think you should be too scared. I am nearing 30 and I still hit 220 once in a while. I have a much higher heart rate than the charts would predict when I'm exercising. One value on its own is not a very good indicator, too. How did that 198 happen? What are usual heart rates/exertion rates combinations for you? Are you sure that 198 value comes from your heart, not from some interferences? What about your resting heart rate?

Take some light time/time off, and hang in there! You need to ride the distance for that MS150, but nobody says you have to sprint it!! Good luck!

[hgrill02]

thanks everyone for your replies. I guess I am not taking it easy enough durring my down time. I am 31, mother of twin boys who are almost 3 years old so I spend alot of time chasing after them.

Grog - My HR gets up to 200+ easily, I can be on the bike just spinning a high cadence on a very low gear for a couple minutes before I hit 190's and my recovery rate will be near 160 - 170. My resting HR is 100. I went to my cardiolgist on Friday and have had a bunch of test done, EKG, 24hr Heart moniter, ultra sound on my heart yesterday and ofcourse blood work so hopefully that will tell me something if not we are going to do a stress test next on a treadmill.

I am learning every day and I just think that I should be able to do these things, I have two days to rest before my next spin class and hopefully I will be ready. I need to learn to listen to my body. Thanks everyone!

Heather

[Grog]

Grog - My HR gets up to 200+ easily, I can be on the bike just spinning a high cadence on a very low gear for a couple minutes before I hit 190's and my recovery rate will be near 160 - 170. My resting HR is 100.

I'm curious to see what the cardiologist says. I know some cyclists who have a very fast beating heart (but a slightly lower heart rate)... It might not be a big problem, and with training (years of training...) it might go down somewhat...

Keep us posted!

[DarcyInOregon]

Heather, if your cardiologist is making you go through that many tests, the doctor must think that the heart rate is abnormal.

My oldest sister has a resting heart rate of 100. She has a mitral heart valve defect. She doesn't exercise, so I can't tell you what her aerobic heart rate is.

My resting heart rate is in the 50s to low 60s. That is a huge contrast between me and my sister in the numbers.

Please follow up to this thread with the results of the medical tests. Perhaps the cardiologist will decide the numbers you get are normal for you. If not, if there is a problem, it is a good thing you find it now.

Darcy

[LBTC]

Yes, Heather, please do let us know the results. You might just have a crazy high heart rate (seems to me even Lance has this, at least when exercising) I have to say I am pretty clueless about exactly what HR tells us, except that I know the faster your HR goes back down from high exercise levels, the healthier your heart is. Not exactly enough to help anybody out.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[nic840]

I am in your same boat as far as the bad and the good days... I am 33 mother of a 3 year old and a 17 month old. It is crazy times...
I have played competative sports my entire life and due to injuries my body just can't do what it used to. It is hard to reign it in. I am learning as I get older that things are changing and I just have to adjust to them and find new ways to feel the edge. (legal ways)
Due to ankle injuries I have now taken up road cycling and have fallen in love.
Just remember your body held twins for 9-months. It takes a while for that to come back. Most importantly is to listen to your body.
I am glad you are going to get the heartrate checked out. Unlike men, women actually go to the doctor when their mind tells them to! Please let us know what they say and give yourself a day off.

[hgrill02]

Thanks again for your support with this. I went in Friday and found out that I defiantly have a bit of mitro valve prolaps and (go figure) a fast heart rate, everything checked out ok, my resting rate from the heart monitor was no lower than 89 even in the middle of the night sleeping.

Other than trying to train for this ride and getting overly tired he said I was fine but put me on Inderal which is a blood pressure/migraine/heart slowing medication, I started it Friday and have been so dizzy and tired that I did not ride this weekend, I just hope I get use to it. I need to do a little research on it. Watching my HR all weekend it has defiantly gone down. He did not think this was something I would stay on long term hopefully just until I get through this ride and stay awake!

Thanks again everyone….Heather