Thanks again for having the courage to bring it up, and damn the torpedoes. In the government world you'd be good for a Meritorious Civilian Service Award, I reckon. So here, I'd say a Meritorious Cycling Service Award.

I think that's an advantage of these subforums compared with some other places Web where any deviation from the concept of the idealized cyclist age 18-24 with no health issues at all, is greeted with a great deal of ignorance — almost ignorance of some of the vagaries of aging and genetic tendencies — or worse, derision.

I did discuss the first incident with a couple of doctors, in conjunction with a pneumonia and asthma issue I was recovering from — and managed to get an appointment for a stress test which reveled nothing unusual, except general good conditioning from cycling.

Neither doc mentioned SVT or AFib at the time, but after 2 different HRM straps, a new HRM, and a couple more Tachycardia events that happened recently, I figured it was not just an HRM malfunction and a total panic feeling (is my heart racing because of panic or some other reason, is it really racing, or what), but something was up.

Let's say I couldn't look at the HRM reading 240 after a while, it was freaking me out, I had to take it off.

Well, I'm very glad to hear it's behind you, and I'll get back to reading the remaining pages of this thread and other links that I haven't gotten to yet.