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[quote=Anonymous]I am probably overthinking this but I had preeclampsia three times which is an unmasker for heart conditions. IE it does not cause the heart condition but if you had pre-e it is an early warning sign that something might happen later on. As a result of my dangerous pregnancies I went on a major fitness kick and spent the last four years losing like 50-60 pounds and getting in what I would consider pretty good shape. I'm not some professional athlete or anything but I exercise a lot. I have in the past six months started down the 'wearable tracker' road a bit and I feel like my exercising HR is concerning to me.

My resting HR per my Oura ring is 56 so my resting HR is fine. But my exercise HR seems crazy.

Yesterday, for example, I ran for 90 minutes (I'm getting ready for a 10k) and the entire time was able to maintain a conversation. Not an EASY conversation but also not like, gasping for words. Able to speak in clear sentences between breaths type thing. From the LOE calculations I would assume this is zone 3 but my watch is telling me I was in zone 5 the whole time because my HR was like, 165-170 most of that time (I am 39 so my max HR calculator is max HR 181). In a speed run workout last week my HR peaked at 206. That was a VERY difficult workout where I got to a LOE I would be unable to sustain for more than a couple of minutes. Again, my wearables thought I might be dying, and it was like, a max effort workout but I was not like, having a heart attack.

The internet has told me that maybe my max HR is just higher than normal. Or that my base fitness might be low and I need to force myself to do a bunch of zone 2 workouts but I will say that my zone 2 by the calculations feels like I'm doing almost nothing. Is anyone else in a similar situation? Mostly I'm worried that this is more evidence of my ticking time bomb of a heart and that its a signal something is wrong with me (while pregnant I got a full cardiac workup and they told me I was fine, but still). [/quote]

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