Originally Posted by
ilikebikes
Not true, I thought I could "read my body" up until just last week when I was diagnosed with a heart condition! I would never have known as I never felt a thing.
so now I need a HR monitor for
every ride as (during particularly hard rides) I could just drop dead without warning!
isn't that just about a *****!
Sorry to hear that man. Definately a good idea for you then.
But for the normal rider, I still say learn to read your body. You can feel when there is getting to be too much lactic in your legs, and you can feel when you are breathing to hard and your chest feels like it's beating too fast.
I just think that reading your body is a very good skill to have in endurance sports.
But to each their own.