Pacemakers, anyone have one?

[colly]

I'm away for a few days atm so no riding. It will interesting to hear what the pacemaker clinic has to say.

 

[Drago]

I'm away for a few days atm so no riding. It will interesting to hear what the pacemaker clinic has to say.

A pacemaker clinic?

Nurse. "Im sorry Mr Colly, but you've caught a dose of pacemaker again."

Colly. "Blimey, what'll I tell the missus?"

 

[stephec]

Trouble is, when your main sport is cycling and you are not interested in 24/7 data collection it makes the device little more than just a watch.

I also found other shortcomings in the Garmin system eg it kept automatically recording me as having afternoon snoozes and you couldn't disable that detection and couldn't delete the snooze events from the Garmin Connect record. (I don't snooze during the day).

How do you manage that?

I'm top class at being lazy but my Fenix 6 Pro has never shown me as having a nap, no matter how long I sit still for.

It does occasionally record a cycling event when I've done an hour of gardening though. 😂

 

[stephec]

I have a bedside device which speaks to the pacemaker. It's got a dingle which sends the data. I'm not sure how much information it collects or how often it transmits it though.

You keep your dingle to yourself thank you very much. 😂

It sound a bit like my lad's, every couple of months a light on the base unit will flash when the clinic want a download, and he has to sit next to it for a few minutes until it completes the transfer.

 

[ColinJ]

I was reading the manual for my sister's electric chainsaw this afternoon. It had warnings about the significant risks involved with getting body parts too close to active chainsaws (really?!! ), but what I didn't expect to see was a warning that electromagnetic fields from the chainsaw motor might adversely affect implanted medical devices such as pacemakers...

 

[ColinJ]

@colly - any word about getting the upper HR limit set to something vaguely realistic?!

I will put off the Garforth forum ride for a few weeks to give both you (and me!) a chance to prepare for it. If you can't make it this time though, don't worry - I will do it again in the autumn.

 

[colly]

@colly - any word about getting the upper HR limit set to something vaguely realistic?!

I will put off the Garforth forum ride for a few weeks to give both you (and me!) a chance to prepare for it. If you can't make it this time though, don't worry - I will do it again in the autumn.

So I am out cycling and to be fair its going ok. I did 40 miles on Monday and it felt really comfortable most of the way. One place where I has a sense of being restricted but I can recognise the signs and rather than press it I just ease off.
I'll be calling them in the morning to see what gives from the 24hr monitor I had.
So make arrangements to suit you and ill fit in with your plans.👍

 

[ColinJ]

So I am out cycling and to be fair its going ok. I did 40 miles on Monday and it felt really comfortable most of the way. One place where I has a sense of being restricted but I can recognise the signs and rather than press it I just ease off.
I'll be calling them in the morning to see what gives from the 24hr monitor I had.
So make arrangements to suit you and ill fit in with your plans.👍

That sounds promising - I'll get back to planning. I want to do a ride longer than 3 hours before Garforth - that's the longest that I have ridden since November so I want to make sure that I am okay for about double that.