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High Heart Rate

Hey all,

I had a two runs in the past week, with the last one happening last evening on a fairly easy run. My Heartrate should have averaged something in the high 140's with a max maybe in the 160's. However, at some point there was a change in my watch where the heart rate spiked up to 200's and 210's, with the lows being high 190's.

Nothing changed with the way I wore my watch and no change in effort.

Has anyone else had this happen and had a way to fix it?

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Garmin-Sierra over 1 year ago +4 verified

All,

I want to let you know that we do have an upcoming beta release that will address a number of reported disruptions. However, we are still conducting testing on the erratic OHR disruption, so the…
Garmin-Sierra 10 months ago +1 verified

All,

Thank you so much for your patience as we've worked on improvements regarding erratic HR data (sudden drops/spikes) during for certain activity profiles. I deeply apologize for the understandable…
Garmin-Sierra over 1 year ago in reply to 6028659 +7

6028659

We know what the problem is and have a fix that we are still testing. I am hopeful that this fix will be released soon, but do not have an official date. I will update this thread as soon as it…
Roland over 1 year ago in reply to 4977680 +5

So, all of a sudden, we have several dozen FR955 and FR965 users who don't know how to wear properly the watch?
Hoythunter12 over 1 year ago +4

Garmin - Please figure your stuff out! This is ridiculous, it's almost every run. Tonight was an easy 8 miler where my average HR was almost more than my maximum heart rate. At this point offer a recall…

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0 Roland over 1 year ago in reply to 4977680

So, all of a sudden, we have several dozen FR955 and FR965 users who don't know how to wear properly the watch?

0 4977680 over 1 year ago in reply to Roland

I see just few here out of hundreds thousands using the watch everyday with no problem

Instead of composing why don’t you simply try to follow instructions given?

than on next run write again if you still have problems

0 fusfeld over 1 year ago

This thread reminds me why community forums are a waste of time. If Garmin wants to reach out to contact me, please do.

0 Roland over 1 year ago in reply to fusfeld

Garmin has already contacted me and I have forwarded them all the info. They have acknowledged the issue and promised to solve this.

0 4977680 over 1 year ago in reply to Roland

I did the same and the only issue is on quick speed change of intervals

0 6317061 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

Yes, Yes, St Maarten

0 Artie G over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

Same here, but also with Garmin chest monitor rate seems some 10 percent higher than normal since 17.24. Meanwhile, HRV seems consistently lower than before (now from unbalanced even in low area compared to history with no apparent physical reason I am aware of). If required/helpful I’d be glad to share my data with Garmin.

0 4977680 over 1 year ago in reply to Artie G

Sorry but I disagree with who say still problems with Beta 17.22 +.

I am on 17.26 and today again a perfect HR measure.

Watch is 2cm away from bone wrist, tight correctly, cleaned sensor, no clothes pushing the watch.

See here below how HR peaks on Intervals and goes down on slow runs.

0 6028659 over 1 year ago in reply to 4977680

Dear 4977580...as you can see from your post there are rump up and rump down during the peace when you have a constant peace... when you buy your watch??

0 4977680 over 1 year ago in reply to 6028659

I did buy my watch on Aug 2022 so it has like 15 months already. I had your problems on 16.13 and 16.17 and than I signed to BETA and with 17.22 I did all problems solved.

I did also took attention to some advise which are the ones I posted above on previous comments.

The major one is to make sure you wear the watch NOT over the bone wrist but 2cm away from that and tight more than usually during activity