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[TD]I am having issues with my HR monitor during activities. Whenever my heart rate gets near 170, the watch appears to be unable to distinguish between cadence and HR and sticks at very high HR levels. For example, yesterday it showed excessive HR levels for most of my run, including almost no HR difference between a 7 min mile hard mile and an 8:30 warm down mile. This has been a consistent issue since the last firmware update, although this also coincides with me starting to do more hard training so I may not have noticed it earlier. The watch is recording easy runs correctly.
Weather has been mild this week so that is not an issue. I’m wearing the watch tight and higher up from my wrist than in day to day usage. I previously used a TomTom Cardio Runner for 3 years and never encountered any of these issues so I know that wrist HR tech can absolutely work for me. I don’t need to track immediate changes for short intervals, but without the ability to monitor average HR over mile splits, this watch does not allow me to track fitness and monitor my training load, which is the main reason I bought it.
Has anyone faced similar issues and found any solution, other than buying a different manufacturer’s watch that is fit for purpose?[/TD]
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