Originally Posted by Mr. Life is too short to play crappy guitars
...My question is what should my heart rate have been going up a 5 percent grade for a mile and a half....
Depends: Was a bear chasing you while dragging a mint condition 1950s Les Paul in the gravel up that hill? If so you'd blown an artery or two in anger. Since there was no bear and no guitar involved, your heart rate should have been about 75-85. Was it higher?