Originally Posted by
wthensler
Anyone have experience they can relay to me?
Heart rate varies wildly from person to person.
There is no way anyone can say what your heart rate will be and other people's heart rate cannot be used as an example of what yours will be.
This weekend is too soon to be reliably determining your level of effort based on heart rate. At a minimum you need to have been using it for weeks or months in order to establish a baseline. The proper way to do it is to get a book, learn about heart rate training, test for max heart rate, set up your zones and go from there.
-Tim-