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HR Monitor Cuts Me In Half (self.running)

submitted 10 months ago by nonresonant to c/running

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Anything over 9 miles or so and my chest gets a gnarly rash right in the middle of my chest where my HRM sits. I put a decent amount of body glide, and no change.

Anyone have a way to combat this?

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[–] stargazer4416 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried switching to a wrist-worn HR monitor?

[–] nonresonant 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm using a Garmin Fenix 7, plus the chest HRM strap. I feel like wrist only wouldn't be as accurate. With that said, might not be a bad idea so scrap the chest one since I'm trying NOT to focus on HR so much and go more by effort. Not sure yet.

[–] davidalso 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I got my first wrist monitor I wore both for a few days and didn't see a significant difference. Unless you're running professionally it should be good enough accuracy. And boy do I never miss the chest strap.

[–] nonresonant 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. What are you using? Or, are referring to a Garmin watch, etc?

[–] davidalso 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry yeah. Nothing fancy. Just a mid range Garmin. Vivoactive 3 I think?

[–] davidalso 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had an older model watch that required a chest strap before that. I think it was my old Pebble. The way I tested was I wore the two watches at the same time and pulled the chest strap data from the older watch and compared it to the wrist monitor data from the new one. I couldn't see any meaningful difference over about a week of running, so I happily gave up the chest strap.

[–] nonresonant 1 points 9 months ago

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.