Recovery Heart Rate stored?

If you allow it to generate a HR recovery number before saving the value gets saved in the FIT file for the activity. Unfortunately nobody, not Garmin or Strava or Training Peaks, does anything with it. Which has never made any sense to me.

You can export to CSV straight from the Connect web interface. Just click on the gear symbol in the upper right when viewing the activity.

You can export to CSV straight from the Connect web interface. Just click on the gear symbol in the upper right when viewing the activity.

I appreciate the pointer and I had seen that, but that only exports your splits essentially, not some of the other info that might be useful/I'm looking for like the recover hear rate

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[TD="width: 50"]Time[/TD]
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[TD="width: 60"]Distance[/TD]
[TD="width: 97"]Elevation Gain[/TD]
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[TD="width: 114"]Avg Run Cadence[/TD]
[TD="width: 117"]Max Run Cadence[/TD]
[TD="width: 116"]Avg Stride Length[/TD]
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The RHR is stored in the tail of the FIT file. Runalyze expose it.

The RHR is stored in the tail of the FIT file. Runalyze expose it.

Cool .. also, I had never heard of Runalyze but just signed up, looks interesting - thanks for the info.

The RHR is stored in the tail of the FIT file. Runalyze expose it.

Where does Runalyze expose it ? I went through the whole list in /Configuration/Dataset and can't seem to find it ?

I don't think it does. It shows the recovery time in hours, and other useful things like the current VO2max to a couple of decimal places, but not recovery HR.

After reading the coursepoints thread, I banged together some python code using fitparse to pull the recovery HR values out of the FIT files in a folder and save them into a .csv file. A work of art it is not, but you may find it useful.

# recoveryhr.py
# mcbadger, May 2019
import fitparse
import glob

fnames = glob.glob('*.fit')

def parsefile( fname):
fitfile = fitparse.FitFile(fname)

# Is this a run?
try:
for sport in fitfile.get_messages('sport'):
continue # so if it's a standard tri, it identifies as running
if sport.get('sport').value == 'running':
print '{}: is running ({}), scanning for recovery HR'.format(fname, sport.get('name').value)
else:
print '{}: is {}, skipping'.format(fname, sport.get('sport').value)
return None
except Exception as e:
print '{} Exception {} looking for sport'.format(fname,e)
return None

# Get all data messages that are of type event
# and search for recovery_hr. Don't break when found, if you pause for more than two minutes there will be a recovery_hr event for that.
recovery_hr = -1
final_hr = -1
for event in fitfile.get_messages('event'):
if event.get('event').value == 'recovery_hr':
recovery_hr = event.get('data').value

if recovery_hr < 0:
print '\n{}: Recovery heart rate not found'.format(fname)
return None

# found, so worth looking for the final activity hr
for record in fitfile.get_messages('record'):
try:
final_hr = record.get('heart_rate').value
except:
pass
if final_hr > 0:
print '\n{}: Final heart rate {} recovery heart rate {} delta {}'.format(fname, final_hr, recovery_hr, final_hr - recovery_hr)
else:
print '{}: Final heart rate not found, recovery heart rate {}'.format(fname, recovery_hr)
for session in fitfile.get_messages('session'):
print '{}: Total time {} minutes {} seconds, total distance {:.2f} km'.format(fname, int(session.get('total_timer_time').value/60.), int(round(session.get('total_timer_time').value%60)), session.get('total_distance').value/1000.0)
return([fname,sport.get('name').value, session.get('start_time').value, final_hr, recovery_hr, session.get('total_timer_time').value, session.get('total_distance').value])



with open('output.csv','w') as f:
f.write('Filename,Sport,Start date and time, Final HR, Recovery HR, Decrease, Total time/sec, Total distance/km, Pace/(min/km)\n')
for fname in fnames:
retval = parsefile(fname)
if retval:
# seconds/km, printed as min/km below
pace = int(round((1000.)*retval[5]/retval[6]))
f.write('{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}:{}\n'.format(retval[0],retval[1],retval[2],retval[3],retval[4],retval[3]-retval[4],retval[5], retval[6]/1000, int(pace/60),pace%60))


I don't think it does. It shows the recovery time in hours, and other useful things like the current VO2max to a couple of decimal places, but not recovery HR.

After reading the coursepoints thread, I banged together some python code using fitparse to pull the recovery HR values out of the FIT files in a folder and save them into a .csv file. A work of art it is not, but you may find it useful.

Super -- thanks for sharing this, I'll definitely will try this out (Python 2 I see :) ). Much appreciated, I had just downloaded the fitparse library and ran the sample program, but wasn't quite sure what I was looking for yet - this will definitely help.

Thanks for the script. So I installed Pythin 3.7 and created an rhr.py file, put a .fit in the same folder and ran it and get :

"C:\Python>rhr.py
File "C:\Python\rhr.py", line 16
print '{}: is running ({}), scanning for recovery HR'.format(fname, sport.get('name').value)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax"

Am I doing something wrong ? Thanks !