Recent HR issues with Garmin FR955

My FR955 has been a very reliable watch for over a year now, but the last 2 runs have been highly problematic. On my 8km Thursday run my HR seemed unusually high from the start and remained so until about km 6 when it dropped from around 138 to 122, then 106 and 85 before dropping to 0 bpm. After this it oscillated between 0 and 138, before finally re-establishing the "correct" bpm (who know if it was actually correct or not). Then today, Saturday, on my 16km long run it started out unusually high and stayed there during the entire run. The temperature was a little high, around 12 or 13 degrees C, but that's not that hot for Australia really and I was running fairly easy, so it shouldn't have been in the 140s. The firmware is 20.32, the most recent update. I have been wearing a Polar H10 for several years now, but on Thursday it failed to connect, so I changed the battery and it connected fine this morning. The Thursday glitch was all about the wrist-based hrm, whereas this morning it was the Polar H10 and the FR 955. I've read about others having other HR issues since the 20.32 update, but these are different to my issues. Has anyone else ranged between 5-10 bpm over what is expected to "flatlining" on an easy run (I absolutely deny dying on my favourite trail on Thursday. Slight smile

  • IMHO it was not the only last two updates the HR goes crazy, to me it was beginning on early 17.xx firmware. On one recovery run i got a 140 bpm and I was really scared about my heart and did a manual HR check - it was normal about 100 pulse. 10 min later OHRS got a plot and  displayed me a realistic hr.  Since then I don't trust my OHRS. All ints, threshold runs i do only with a chest stripe and switched off auto select for a  HR sensor. 

  • What does OHRS mean? Also, are you suggesting that switching off the auto discover function in sensors & accessories function resolved this issue, as I did this on Friday, when I replaced the battery in my Polar H10 chest strap. I have owned the H10 for several years now, I used it with my old FR 945, but recently my watch has changed the chest strap device address multiple times, especially after I change the battery.

  • Optical heart rate sensor.  This is the built-in sensor on the back of the watch.