High Heartrates and HR Zone training

[maillotpois]

I also don't see this as super high for a true training ride (as opposed to a recovery or endurance ride). Relatively short course, fast time, plenty of up and down in the profile. My average would be right about there and V, you and I are all about the same age (putting another nail in the 220-age formula).

Here's a way to estimate your LT and really get those zones dialed in a bit more:

http://www.ultracycling.com/training...ing_zones.html

I'd still go with true lab testing if it is available to you, but this is a good interim measure (so to speak).

[ima_bleeder]

We're roughly the same age, the same gender, and have very nearly the same resting heart rate ... and your HR profile looks very similar to many of my rides. So I don't think it looks extreme at all.

Here's the link to my motionbased HR data for a 7 1/2 hour, 50 mile MTB race. Mind you, I was PACING myself for an all day ride, and I still averaged 166, with a max HR of 187.

MHR varies significantly by individual, so don't get concerned because you don't think you represent the norm.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

ima - that mtb profile looks insane! Wow... Fun, but insane!

All your info and shared profiles/experiences have helped me realize I'm not overtraining. My resting hr has stayed relatively the same and I just posted my 8/2 ride and saw that for a flatter ride, my avg HR was a lot lower. I even went faster (no surprise since it was flatter), but my HR was still a lot lower than my usual hilly rides. Now..if the heat weren't so blasted deadly right now.... <<sigh>>

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6414179

Thank you thank you, lady friends of TE!!!

[Chicken Little]

The heat is killing us all right now. I am on the road by 0630 or am reduced to a slobbering, beet red, salt drenched slob by 0900. I find riding in 35 degrees easier than this stuff...