Heart Rate On Track

[bigjae1976]

Thought this was interesting. I'm consistently around 120 bpm while driving on track. Taken with a Fitbit Charge 2. It's mostly accurate reading HR.

I was also instructing where my HR doesn't get nearly as high but I also had 2 good students this past weekend.

I'm in pretty good shape and I'm usually around 110-120 bpm playing ice hockey.

[dparm]

That seals it, I'm canceling my gym membership and using that money to go to the track! ;-)

Surprised your HR isn't higher when you're the instructor...

[CorruptCommie]

Originally Posted by dparm

That seals it, I'm canceling my gym membership and using that money to go to the track! ;-)

Surprised your HR isn't higher when you're the instructor...

Two good students. Wait til he gets the aggressive novice with nittos and aero

[bigjae1976]

Originally Posted by CorruptCommie

Two good students. Wait til he gets the aggressive novice with nittos and aero

Yeah, definitely lucked out this weekend. Both students drove really well and no scary moments.

I'll be sure to follow up with data on a scary one.

[Richbot]

I rest at 65-ish and am around 130 during a 45-min race, pretty much as soon as we are waved out for the pace lap, nerves I guess. I need to sync up the data to my data acq. sometime and video. I certainly feel much more amped on the race start than halfway in, and you can feel the adrenaline bleeding off once a fight for position has resolved itself, for instance. With enough resolution it'd be cool to see how much it spikes when you catch the car in a fast car-killing corner :eep:

[spxxx]

If you have an apple watch with the Harrys lap timer app and use your phone for timing you can overlay OBD + Speed + telemetry + Heart rate. Looks pretty neat when overlayed on video. I also run a MyLaps transponder for Nasa events, I've found that HLT is within 1-2 tenths of the official time.

I really like HLT as long as your LTE connection is decent. I just use a generic $10 OBD wifi adapter from Amazon and have had great results recently using it with HLT.

[roastbeef]

I listened to a podcast from Ross Bentley on the subject and it was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.

[SQ13]

Originally Posted by bigjae1976

I'll be sure to follow up with data on a scary one.

You can be my instructor anytime

[admranger]

I think my heart rate is 120 getting out of bed.

bigjae1976 has an impressive resting heart rate. I think he's a witch. Burn him!

I've said it before, but one of the best, if not the best investment I made in the race car was a cool shirt. Worth every penny.

[bigjae1976]

Originally Posted by admranger

I think my heart rate is 120 getting out of bed.

bigjae1976 has an impressive resting heart rate. I think he's a witch. Burn him!

I've said it before, but one of the best, if not the best investment I made in the race car was a cool shirt. Worth every penny.

Lol...I also have a normal body temp of 97 degrees. I'm sick if I'm at 98.6...frickin' army messed me all up! Or I might be turning into a lizard person or something.

That's interesting. I plan to install a cool shirt. I'm curious to see if that will help lower the heart rate.

FYI...it was 90 and Houston humid. The intake temps were above 120. Pretty toasty.

[1MOREMOD]

Originally Posted by admranger

I think my heart rate is 120 getting out of bed.

bigjae1976 has an impressive resting heart rate. I think he's a witch. Burn him!

I've said it before, but one of the best, if not the best investment I made in the race car was a cool shirt. Worth every penny.

Same here

[admranger]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

Same here

So you agree bigjae1976 is a witch and we should burn him?! Excellent!

[ThunderMoose]

Originally Posted by admranger

So you agree bigjae1976 is a witch and we should burn him?! Excellent!

Throw him in water and if he doesn't sink and drown then we burn him.

[Richbot]

Originally Posted by bigjae1976

Lol...I also have a normal body temp of 97 degrees. I'm sick if I'm at 98.6...frickin' army messed me all up! Or I might be turning into a lizard person or something.

That's interesting. I plan to install a cool shirt. I'm curious to see if that will help lower the heart rate.

FYI...it was 90 and Houston humid. The intake temps were above 120. Pretty toasty.

Back when I was in spec miatas I would have actually died if I didn't have a cool shirt in the August thunderdome races at my local roval - usually about an 80 degree dewpoint taht time of year. Now in the open cockpit stuff I don't notice the heat so long as I'm moving

They also make the ones with icepacks you wear under your shirt, either way cool shirts are a lot of plastic to wear in a vehicle powered by millions of tiny gasoline explosions. I would want at least an FR driving jacket over the top, just in case, to fend off teh melts if things go bad

[bigjae1976]

Originally Posted by ThunderMoose

Throw him in water and if he doesn't sink and drown then we burn him.

I'll save you the hassle...I can swim. So just proceed to the burning.

[admranger]

Originally Posted by bigjae1976

I'll save you the hassle...I can swim. So just proceed to the burning.

Saving time for us. Very considerate of you.

Richbot -- I had one of the frozen pack vest things and it sucked ass. Wore it in the pits and felt hotter with it on than with it off. Had special ice packs with a wider freeze point range than just ice water type packs. No bueno.

For those with cool shirt systems, freeze chunks of ice in Gladware containers. It lasts longer than cube ice (both in the cooler you bring to the track and in the cool shirt cooler).

[Richbot]

One time I did such a good job putting ice in my cool shirt cooler that the pump wasn't able to scavenge any water out, which I realized after the 2 minute whistle. Smart guy that I am, on the out lap I reached over and took the lid off to help the 130 degree interior temps do their work and get me some water in my shirt. The lid, of course, slid out of reach immediately

At least it splashed on me a few times towards the end