has anyone had the following:
When I run my watch will say for example, 78% heart rate after 12
minutes. But when Ive imported the run onto the pc, the graph says my
Heart rate was 83% after 12 minutes? Plus it showed me hitting 100% HR
on a hard, but not flat out, run?
--- In polar_rs800sd_polar_rs800@..., "marcclayton99"
<marcclayton99@...> wrote:
>
> has anyone had the following:
>
> When I run my watch will say for example, 78% heart rate after 12
> minutes. But when Ive imported the run onto the pc, the graph says my
> Heart rate was 83% after 12 minutes? Plus it showed me hitting 100% HR
> on a hard, but not flat out, run?
>
Is Your monitor showing 100% on 'not flat out runs', because you are yet
to calibrate it to your maximum heart rate levels. I think the auto set
up mode uses the standard 220 bpm minus your age, your Max level might
be higher than this.
Has anyone encountered large errors on the distance recorded by the
foot pod? after spending 8-9 runs of varying distances calibrating
monitor to within 0.02 miles on a 3 mile run, I ran a hilly course that
I know from measuring with mapping software to be 8.35 miles. On
completion of the run, the monitor only recorded 6.5 miles, although
the stop watch time was correct.
I think it fails on runs of varying speed, and also if you change shoes. What I did was run a measured loop at different speeds: my jogging speed, and my race speed. So I'd have a 1km at 3:30, and a 1km at 5:10 for my slow runs. I'd see what the watch said I'd done, after doing each speed 3 times each to get an average. So maybe it said I'd done 940m when I was going quick, but 910m when I was going slow. So because I know it IS 1km, I work out a ratio for each speed. Now comes the rubbish part: if I know I'm going to be doing a race, I put in the ratio I worked out at race pace, and if I'm doing a jog, I put in the ratio for my slower pace. So, yes, I have to put it in each time I want to change paces. Which is cr_p I know, but I cant see another way around it. Anyway I use it mostly at slow jog ratio for my slow runs, because I wouldnt trust it to measure intervals, I'd do those on measured courses.
One other sh_te thing. When I got it, I assumed you could put a
different ratio for different shoes, so when you change from trainers to racers, you'd change the shoes on the watch and it would change the ratio. But it seems to only change the mileage aspect for each shoe, ie how many miles each shoe has done, which is pretty lame. Who cares how many miles your shoes have done, youll know when theyre buggered or not. Or am I doing it wrong?
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I have a fairly new RS800, used less than 2 months that I would like to get rid of. I would include the IrDA adaptor (brand new) and free shipping. If you are interested, please email me and I will let you know cost.
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