physiology

Ever tried taking your resting heart rate?

Coach Bobby McGee has asked the Masters Milers group to supply some numbers for our baseline assessments. One of those is RHR.

It's easier said than done. Ideally you would have someone do it for you first thing in the morning as they lovingly wake you with a nice cup of tea. What you're looking for, after all, is resting heart rate, not your heart rate after you've a) woken with start from a palpitating nightmare of chasing Henry Rono up a mountain while a team of pursuing IRS agents fires water pistols at you, b) clawed a suffocating pillow off your face and hurled it to the floor, then realised it was the cat while c) simultaneously knocking your heart rate monitor and/or alarm clock off the bedside table while sitting up without thinking and then realising that you have to, just have to, go to the bathroom right now.