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Steve NordRunner Mar 2023 11:22am, 7 Mar 2023 2,744 posts	0 Steve NordRunner If that's really a thing then it's probably not a good idea to lick someone's chest-hair.
flanker Mar 2023 12:27pm, 7 Mar 2023 20,841 posts	0 flanker ^^^ generally good life advice. Talking HR, I had an interesting experience yesterday. HR reading on the watch, from a Wahoo OHR, continually climbed until it was reading over 200, and stayed at the same level even when resting. I turned off the Wahoo and went back to the watch's OHR and it still stayed high, and even on my cool down was about 160 (which is around lactate threshold!). That's all a bit strange, but the really weird thing was the HR data recorded in the FIT file bore no relation to the numbers being displayed on the watch. The activity reports as averaging around 130 with a max at 160ish, which is roughly what I'd expect.
Derby Tup Mar 2023 11:47am, 9 Mar 2023 58,718 posts	0 Derby Tup If it helps DT, here's the mail address for those that can't contact support because they can't log in: support@strava.zendesk.com It took some sorting but I'm back in. Apparently I set up my account using Apple id and there was a proxy email address. Thanks!
Bowman 🇸🇪 Mar 2023 4:43pm, 9 Mar 2023 2,435 posts	0 Bowman 🇸🇪 That is strangeflanker I have had strange things too with my hr strap. Almost new HRM pro plus, and a new battery. Yesterday it missed one of my intervals, it just kept hovering around my rest hr. And today it creeped up 15-20 beats, at first I thought it was something with me, slowed down the treadie and lowered the incline, and it got back. But when it happened again I started to compare shown hr on the watch with the treadmills hr device, and the watch was way off. Afterwards I saw in GC web that whenever the problem occurred run dynamics and breathing speed went out the window to.. Never had any problems before I even use ECG gel for the electrodes. Really annoying
larkim Mar 2023 4:47pm, 9 Mar 2023 20,498 posts	0 larkim T-shirt static was, for me at least, the sole reason why I got dodgy readings from my chest strap HRM. Easily proved (to my satisfaction at least) by taking off the t-shirt mid-activity. Though I don't think I've ever seen something reported "live" on my wrist and then a different value in the output files later.
Badger Mar 2023 6:19pm, 9 Mar 2023 16,139 posts	0 Badger Nor me. It sounds as though the watch was not displaying the incoming values correctly. I know flanker well enough to be confident I don't need to ask HYTTIOAOA
flanker Mar 2023 8:48pm, 9 Mar 2023 20,842 posts	0 flanker Actually I haven't Badger 😂 But for good reasons - I wanted to see if it was a one-off (in which case I had an idea of the cause) or a repeatable thing. It seems to have been a one-off. I think the cause was a lack of juice. I'd forgotten to charge it, and at the completion of the activity, immediately after I'd saved it, it said "battery critical, shutting down". My hypothesis was that it was actively managing power draw to extend life during the activity and this was interfering with the BT and/or HRM processing. Just a theory, but with some substance behind it.
Badger Mar 2023 9:35pm, 9 Mar 2023 16,140 posts	0 Badger Sound thinking. Interfering with the display, perhaps, given what you said about what the HR looked like in the activity afterwards.
flanker Mar 2023 12:13am, 10 Mar 2023 20,846 posts	0 flanker If it was giving static, laggy or gappy readings, I would say possibly interfering with the display, but as they were changing regularly I'd guess not. Who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️
Badger Mar 2023 9:30am, 10 Mar 2023 16,141 posts	0 Badger The only reason I think that is that you say the values logged are different from what was on the display, but in line with what you'd expect to see, suggesting the right values were being received and logged but not displayed. Either way it is pretty odd, but then components being fed too little voltage/current or wonky clock signals do odd things. (Once had two MRI engineers working for the best part of a week to diagnose an issue with a scanner, which turned out to be a clock board sending pulses below the nominal voltage, so the other boards were intermittently missing pulses, but not always the same pulse, and getting out of sync with each other).