GRRRRRRRR GARMIN

BIKE indoors 30 mins, 7 miles?
RUN 6.1 miles in 1:05, attempt at MAF

Attempt at MAF HR, which is 139 for me. 180 minus my age. My Golden Garmin was supposed to be my Golden Gateway into this, and all it did was F with my head.

Ave bike HR was 111. I went 0.2 mph ave. Ha!

After the bike I walked the doggie, then my run. I was already a bit mental for some reason by this point. So it didn't help that my HR alarm just beeped beeped beeped beeped allllll through the run. UGH. No way was my HR 180+ for any of this. I got tense. Mental. Uptight. Tried to be calm, but forcing a 'calm' breath probably deprived me of O2 if anything. I stopped, watched HR drop to 152, then climb back up again. I walked, watched it drop then go back up again. UGH.

Tried tighter strap. Tried left arm. Tried ignoring it. Fail. Fail. Fail.

So I'm writing this Tuesday, when I had the chance to upload this info for analysis. I spent yesterday grumbling and googling to figure out WTF is going on. A few things learned googling.

The garmin can get confused with cadence (it measures cadence, I didn't know that?! Cool!). It can get confused by tech materials creating static.

On Tuesday I can see that pace and HR closely overlapped so it was reading something and followed trends even if it wasn't accurate. But overlapping with cadence suggests that is maybe what it was measuring? Do I run at a 180 cadence? It seems to make sense. One way to test it would be to walk really fast? Would that lower my HR.

By the time I finished the run, I was thinking about selling the thing.