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Following on from Heart rate errors, does this look normal?

Hello! Just did parkrun, really enjoyable. So heart rate stayed pretty steady all the way as I kept the same pace, but it seemed awfully high for the effort it felt? It wasn't an easy run but it

wasn't a really hard run, does a heart rate of 175 average seem normal? I felt I had more in the tank so does that mean my max heart rate is over 210? Garmin estimates it at 203 even though I am 32 years old. Perceived effort was like a 6 or 7 out of 10 but I wasn't breathing very hard. My resting heart rate is 56...I just thought it would be lower at the speed I did. Anyway thanks for reading and any replies

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ovekvam over 1 year ago +1

That seems normal. I have friends older than you who would average over 200 bpm on a run like that.

Your cadence is a bit low. You could probably run better by shortening your stride.

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0 ovekvam over 1 year ago

That seems normal. I have friends older than you who would average over 200 bpm on a run like that.

Your cadence is a bit low. You could probably run better by shortening your stride.

0 8787459 over 1 year ago in reply to ovekvam

Hi, okay thank you. Wow over 200bpm. I am 176cm tall, i'll try shortening my stride a bit then, thanks for the tip.

0 global_local over 1 year ago in reply to 8787459

Hmm. 176 and 123 cm, 160 spm. We can't see your pace, but the optimum would be > 180 spm and under 1m step lengh if you don't want overstride. The HR may be OK, i can't see your condition/strain. As for me, it is a little bit hard to run 170bpm 3 min after start. I try to remain under 120 for at least the first 10 min to get warm. But i'm old :)

0 ovekvam over 1 year ago in reply to global_local

For 5K runs it is better to be properly warmed up before start. This was a parkrun, which is a timed event.

0 8787459 over 1 year ago in reply to global_local

Hi, my pace was 5:05per km. I normally run at 5:40 per km for slow long runs that are easy effort for me. I did a little warm up of about 1 kilometer but not much, i should warm up for longer