resting HR at 42bpm. That good?

It's really an individual thing. I think it's probably towards the "good" side, but there are people with resting HRs in the 30s, and according to Jack Daniels, PhD there are some phenominal outlier runners like Jim Ryun with resting HRs closer to 70.

Basically, the better shape you are in, the lower your resting HR will go. Whether that is in the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.. is dependent on the individual.

my resting heart rate is 32 it is good for an endurance athlete as long as there is no abnormalities such as an enlarged heart or blocked arteries.

60-100 is the average heart rate range for non athletes so yea its pretty good

and jim ryun's heart rate was probably so high because he was constantly doing intervals and didn't a huge amount of mileage at the type of pace that would benefit one's cardiovascular system. granted i haven't really read his logs but all the stories about huge sessons of 440s would lead one to believe...

in the field wrote:

60-100 is the average heart rate range for non athletes so yea its pretty good

and jim ryun's heart rate was probably so high because he was constantly doing intervals and didn't a huge amount of mileage at the type of pace that would benefit one's cardiovascular system. granted i haven't really read his logs but all the stories about huge sessons of 440s would lead one to believe...

Whatever workout mix you're guessing he had/didn't have, don't you think his cardiovascular system was pretty well developed to excel at the mile?

Lance Armstrong has a lower resting HR than you and he doesn't run that fast... just sayin'

Anything above one is good.

Seriously:Medical profession considers anything between

60-100 as in the range.

Most runners will blow that theory away which proves once again that Let'srun posters and normality are not even in the same ballpark.

shoe guy wrote:

Lance Armstrong has a lower resting HR than you and he doesn't run that fast... just sayin'

He's spent most of his life training to ride a bike so it's not really relevant.

Next you'll be telling us that world class rowers with a low heart rate can't beat Haile in the marathon; and that the Pope has some kind of involvement with the Catholic church :/

can't say wrote:

... according to Jack Daniels, PhD there are some phenominal outlier runners like Jim Ryun with resting HRs closer to 70.

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That is surprising. I wonder if that is more of a sign of chronic overtraining as opposed to what his "normal" RHR should have been.

runners who are natually good at shorter distances 800 mile etc, have usually higher resting HR than the pure endurance talented ones.

50 beats per minute here.