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Old 04-22-2008, 04:25 PM
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Default Re: Health and Fitness Thread

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Originally Posted by bravotwozero View Post
That would be hard to measure, unless you're wearing one of those handy dandy heart rate monitors on your wrist. I usually just take my carotid pulse immediately after I finish my run..my heart rate usually ends up being above 240 beats/min.
240!?

(I don't know what units I'm looking at , but I usually train at 155-160)

I'm trying to optimize my run, getting a good balance between heart rate and length of session.
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