HR question

[shawnada]

my HR is always higher on my runs then on bike. I'm not a genius about this, but when the arms become involved in an exercise it creates an additional 12 percent energy output. Our entire body is moving and taking alot of impact on a run, the bike is holding our body weight.

[eclectic]

I had the exact same questions when I first wore my HR monitor I got for Christmas! My HR was over the top and I should have been dead according to the age way of calculating it.

I teamed up my HR monitor and the Perceived rate of exertion chart to figure out where each level was.

When I first started running my HR was in the high 170's and I wasn't even going very fast, to keep it low I was like you I would have had to walk

Now that I have been running regularily for about 4 months my HR is starting to go down finally. I am going a little faster and it has dropped about 10 beats

I double check by singing Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light.
on a slow comfortable run I can get to see, but usually i can only get to the end of say. (Oh is 2 beats after all :P