Originally Posted by
Andy STi
You all have little bird hearts! Smaller stroke volume means a faster heart rate to maintain cardiac output. Keep training and your heart may get bigger and your HR may decrease.
That's really reading too much into it. Some riders may well have high stroke volume and a fast HR. There's no correlation that I've ever heard between race results and LTHR. My average HR in crits is, as far as I can tell, similar to what it was six years ago, but I'm a lot fitter now. There are plenty of other strong riders I know with LTHR of 185 or greater, and others in the 170s or even 160s.