I just bought my first heart rate monitor. This weekend I went out on as short test ride with it. I downloaded the data to my computer. Now I am looking at the nice little graph the software give me and I am thinking, what does it all mean?

My Data:
I calculated my max heart rate to be 185.
I am almost 41 and I weight 178 lbs (about 8 lbs then I should).

The data you see is from a short hilly ride I do when I don’t have much time to ride.

To me it looks like I am keeping my HR right about where it should be.


Does anyone with more experience with HRM have any comments?