Unchain My Heart

If you're like me, you spend way too much time with a heartrate monitor strapped around your chest. It has to impede breathing, even if only a little, and provide the potential for distraction when you might want to be focussed on something else. I did my first Sunday crit yesterday. Let's just say it was a good workout. The nature of the event ($10 to the winner of each 1.3 km lap) were such that I wanted not to have any desire to look at my Polar, but wanted to record something in my computerized workout log. So I set it on Stopwatch and left the heartrate strap at home. The experience was liberating, and I know I was at lactate thresholf for about an hour (two races, no money).