Monday, so an easy day.
The usual two miles from the bus stop in Saltley to work.
The cold gave me some gyp today but after work I walked back towards Saltley. As I was on 147 after this morning’s walk, I decided to go an extra mile (literally) and continued past my usual exit from the canal.
At Aston Church Road, I left the canal heading up the hill, past Taroni’s and on to Washwood Heath Road.
A carried on walking until my watch bleeped at three miles. I stopped the watch and continued a short way to the next bus stop.
Back at base, I filled in my tracker at the 150 mark and , on the reverse, coloured in Kent.
My GPS watch, Garmin Fenix 5, has a built-in heart rate monitor which works by reflecting light off the blood vessels at the wrist. I have never really got along with it as can be seen from tonight’s walk (red line). You’d expect a few ups and downs but for what was a steady paced walk it’s all over the shop.

Tomorrow, I’ll try the chest strap and to help me compare the two sensors, I have downloaded an app to my Fenix that can read and record the chest strap separately from the wrist sensor.
Hopefully, tomorrow night I can view the two traces together and see how they both perform.
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