Is my Heart Rate Monitor working??

Hello

I just purchased a Polar F5 Heart Rate Monitor. I have configured it
but I have a slight problem:

When I see my heart rate it remains around 65-67bpm, but occasionally
it spikes to around 120, for a second, and then goes back down.

What does this mean, am I a super hero? Or, alternatively, is it
telling me something else?

Thanks

Tony

In article <46bec5fd-00ba-4fe8-b8d7-6ee1e4e6b376@m44g2000hsc..com>,
<tony.bastick@> wrote:
>What does this mean, am I a super hero? Or, alternatively, is it
>telling me something else?

I've found that my Polar HRMs will occasionally spike
(although 120 isn't much of a spike) when 1) there's poor
skin contact, or 2) I'm near a power line.
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