Sunday Swimming & the Near Death Experience

Dropped in to Consett Masters to get my Sunday swim in and found myself working pretty hard in this session. That's one of the problems when you get a decent rest between repeats there's a temptation to try harder and swim faster.

So there I was hanging on for grim death and just about to push off for my final 100 m repeat when I glanced down at too smart watch and it was showing my pulse rate at 217! Now at my age my maximum heart rate should be somewhere around 165-170 and that sort of level I think I'm probably pretty close to being clinically dead. Here's the print out of my heart rate over the session.

The two red peaks show my heart rate at 217 and 221, too smart watch tells me that the 221 reading is 131% of my maximum heart rate. Should I be worried or is it just a techno glitch. I'll go with the latter, cos I'm still here and feel fine and at the end of the sesh too smart watch told me the effect was "Maximal perf and fitness improving" no mention there of imminent demise then.

Well yesterday when I first posted this I had to add the following apology "Now I'm sure that there must be a more technically proficient way of uploading the graph to this blog, but I couldn't work out how to do it, so I went for the low tech option of taking a picture of the screen and uploading that so I apologise for the poor quality." as you can see from the above I was introduced to a bit of clever software which allows me to capture screen shots..... Whoa Binge Swimmer techno nerd and thanks to EJ for the steer.

400 @ 7.30s warm up
3 x 200 @ 4 mins  (swam 3.10, 3.05 & 3.02)
8 x 100 @ 2 mins
6 x 33.3 @ 60 s kick
6 x 33.3 @ 60s sprint
200 swim down
2400 m