Update on the heart rate

I ran with the HR monitor today, and I'm happy to report that it wasn't too bad. My resting HR doesn't seem to have gone up much...in the locker room, I was in the high 60s, rather than the low 60s. Considering that my locker room HR was up in the 90s when I first started using the monitor, that's still a pretty good improvement. Of course, that was also a couple years and at least 10 lbs ago.

Once I got moving, I did notice a slight increase over my previous numbers, but only by 3-5 bpm. Heat also could have been a factor, since it was over 80 degrees out there. My running numbers were not at all good, topping out at 181 by the third running interval. But that's just about what I expected. It was warm outside, and I'm out of practice. My average HR was 144 for the total 2-mile workout, which was about 40% running. Definitely room for improvement there, but it was better than I thought it would be.