Quote Originally Posted by DarcyInOregon
Raven and Zen, what are the average heart rates for all of your rides?
My average? Honestly I do not know as I have been too lazy to work out how to find that info on my HRmonitor

I monitor my HR to push my lactate threshold in training, to ensure I race in Zone5, 5a & 5b (particularly in time trials) and to keep my heart rate low on active recovery rides.

In a training ride with hills my heart rate will be between 97bpm and 160bpm.

On moderate hills I climb at a steady training pace with a heart rate now of no more than about 120bpm... 2-3 months ago the same hills would have me shoot up over 138/145bpm. Although this change wasn't literally overnight, it did happen over a couple of weeks.

(When I started cycling about 3 years ago even moderate climbs would have my HR into the high 150s, 1602 ans even 170s.)

I am finding I am noticing changes in my heart responses seem to happen in stages... with plateaus... but this may be because I do not keep an every-ride-check on my average.

Sorry... not much use to you in terms of how you/Suzie use your monitors...