Hello! I just got back to road cycling after many years away (long story) and have decided to train for this June's Kentucky Tour de Cure fundraising ride put on by the American Diabetes Association. Yesterday, I took my first ride in probably six or seven years. It was amazing. I still love my bike. I still love riding. And I love my new Garmin! So! Much! Data!
Anyway, I've got it hooked up to a Polar HD 10 chest strap style monitor and they seem to be talking to one another well, or at least they did yesterday on my inaugural ride so I guess I don't have just a huge test sample to work from. I can see my heart rage average and drill down to second-by-second measurements, which is amazing and science fictional to me.
However, for the training program I'm starting soon, I first have to perform a "heart rate threshold test," which involves a sustained maximum effort of thirty minutes (it won't be impressive, trust me), with that threshold number being defined as the average heart rate of the LAST TWENTY MINUTES of the effort. So I need to figure out how to break out just twenty minutes of a forty plus minute ride (there's also warm up, cool down, and, y'know, getting back to the house).
I'm hoping that this will work. I get to that ten minute mark during the max effort, I push the lap button, go for another twenty minutes, then--if I can even see it and my arms still work--hit the lap button again. And that then when I go to my Garmin Connect page after uploading the ride, the specifics for just that bit between me hitting the lap buttons will be broken out. Is that the case?
I sure hope so. I can see a way to get the same number off of a given time range within a ride based on what I did yesterday, but it involves a lot of tedious writing down of second-by-second measurements and then doing some arithmetic,
Or maybe there's some OTHER way of doing it? I contacted the guy who made the highest rated heart rate app/widget on the website but he said his app won't work because my particular monitor uses Bluetooth instead of ANT+ so that was a nonstarter.
Cheers,
Christopher
