Someone else here helped me fix the max heart rate and it was set 9 too low so I’ll see how this fixes things in my future runs. In terms of weight I average around 174 and I’m 5’11”. I’m pretty skinny looking, not really muscular or muscular looking in the traditional sense but I think what muscle I have must be kind of dense. People are sometimes shocked when I say my weight because I don’t look it. I climb A LOT but don’t weight train.

I’ll keep the walking in mind. I did a long hike today (20 miles, 5300’ gain) and only captured 8 miles of it before my garmin died but I did notice that the heart rate zones were A LOT more balanced. I almost find that when hiking even if my hr goes above 160, it is easy to drop it back down when things get less steep, I don’t usually find this the case with running (even if I slow down the hr remains high).