If you're now "....quite experienced in knowing how my heart now responds to training input" why do you bother having the HR monitor? Your problem with it seems to be just another of those pointless diversions suffered by many a gizmo user: a diversion from cycling to data-parsing.Jon in Sweden wrote: ↑29 Jan 2023, 9:00am
It's a fairly recent occurrence. I'm had nearly 300hrs of using this HR monitor so I'm quite experienced in knowing how my heart now responds to training input. My HR maximum, prior to this tech issue, was 185bpm, and that genuinely feels close to my max and was on an all out hill climb. I'm also 38, so it roughly aligns with the rule of thumb (220 minus age).
I saw 196bpm on Friday whilst steadily pedalling up a gentle incline. It's not an accurate measurement.
On the other hand, if the HR monitor tells you something and you treat the data as faulty rather than providing a useful indication of something, haven't you discovered a rather large hole in the justification for having such an instrument? What if the spikes are an indication of various effects coming on because of overtraining? No good having gizmo data if you just believe it when it tells you OK rather than not-OK.
And perhaps you can listen to your body without the gizmo? Many of us did so before gizmo became yet another wallet-drainer feasting on the cycling masses. One gets quite good at it. In fact, going by my quote of you above, you seem to be doing it!
It's entirely possible (and much more enjoyable) to improve your cycling prowess to a purpose or desire by just cycling. Millions did it before the gizmo sellers began to alter our brains concerning how "essential" it is to measure every aspect of one's life and it's bodily functions.
Cugel