Correct auto detect maximum heart rate?

After this cycling workout, it changed my max heart rate to 214 bpm. I'm 39 years old. Is this possible?

  • Is 214bpm possible at 39, maybe, but on a 6hr ride... ?  Did you do a all out LONG sprint that or series of them that would have caused you to loose vision a bit, maybe taste of iron in mouth, couldn't catch breath?  I see you were in zn5 for 4minutes... is the HR data smooth/accurate and correlate well to the effort you were doing?  OR just error ?

    I am not a fan of auto setting Max... should be from your best knowledge based on real world race or workouts.  add a bit extra if you think you could have maybe went harder - longer.  Want hot, race day, lots of caffeine and adrenaline, shorter race so you can really hammer hard

  • I'm thinking the algorithm recalculated max hr based on the zones. There is no way I could sustain threshold for almost 2 hours. The higher max hr recalculates the zones, so in reality, I was riding tempo?