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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 9 months 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 8 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 9 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 Radek.Priborsky 10 months ago in reply to 4977680

4977680 - do you work for Garmin?

Please, don't spam this thread. ...2 or 20 cm - it doesn't work.

0 4977680 10 months ago in reply to Radek.Priborsky

I am a private user. I was reporting problems that occurred on 16.17, see my first messages, and now I am reporting that are cured with Beta 17.22 and +

If you still continue wearing the watch not following instructions than you will have forever HR problems

0 6028659 10 months ago in reply to 4977680

I'm wearing the watch in the same way from 1Y...only in the last 2weeks my HRV is decreasing recording an higher HR during the night ... and I don't wanna speak more regarding the sport activities...

Garmin has just admitted the problem. STOP

0 4977680 10 months ago in reply to 6028659

Let’s have Sierra confirming if there is a bug on HR on 16.17 or on Beta as to me Beta 17.22 and + cured the issue

the few of you reporting HR problems there will always be if related to a non correct watch position on the wrist

0 2591295 10 months ago in reply to 4977680

I have several examples from this week alone where i get the wrong heartrate on easy runs where as on tempo runs its correct. Are you suggesting that i am wearing the watch differently for each workout? There is a clear pattern and it has been deemed a bug by garmin. No need to shill for them they are a public traded company and not your friends.

0 4977680 10 months ago in reply to 2591295

and I posted several examples NO problem with Beta 17.22 and + no matter if a slow run or intervals....I do agree there is a problem with 16.17 and I posted above but not on Beta to me

0 6028659 10 months ago in reply to 4977680

17.26 after restart the watch. This is my yesterday evening cycling indoor activity...it seems ok...I'll try a run this evening

0 4977680 10 months ago in reply to 6028659

finally....tight the watch a bit more than usual, 1-2cm away from bone wrist, no clothes on it or pushing the watch to the wrist, if it moves and you notice higher HR put it back 1-2cm away from the wrist bone. On a run the watch moves more than on cycling

Most probably the restart, power ON-OFF, was needed.

Hopefully you get good results on the run too

0 Hoythunter12 10 months ago

Happened again last night, but not on a usual easy paced run. I was doing some faster miles and HR was where it should have been. Then when I slowed down and started some recovery paced miles my HR spiked from 170s-180s up to 210. I did two reps and both had the same outcome.

0 2591295 10 months ago in reply to 4977680

Cycling was never the issue in this thread it was always running activities. Hope the foreRUNNER can soon be used for running activities again. right now its barely usable.