Or at least, count it. Yes, today I bought a heart monitor.

Or rather, I bought two. The first one looks like a normal wrist watch. 
"No chest strap!" it boasts. Which is true, but unfortunately to 
complete the circuit you have to touch the metal frame with your other 
hand. Only when you do this do you get a reading. Which is of course 


So I returned it to the shop and got a nearly identical device which 
also comes with a chest strap. This transmits wirelessly to the watch, 
which displays a reading and some basic statistics.

So now I'm probably going to spend the rest of the way obsessing about 
my heart rate. ;-)

Assuming this device is anywhere near accurate... should I be worried 
that I'm idling at about 75 BPM, it hit 101 BPM at one point, and I 
haven't actually got out of my chair yet?? o_O

(Seriously. I got the thing working, and I thought "right, this is gonna 
be fun!" And I rubbed my hands with glee. And the counter hit 101 BPM!)

It'll be interesting to see what kind of readings I get tonight. I'm 
going out to a Rock & Roll dance night. Up to 5 hours of Rock & Roll 
dancing, likely to be combined with high temperatures, high humidity and 
social stress.

Maybe you guys could take bets on what my maximal BPM reading for the 
evening will be? :-P

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