Anything over 9 miles or so and my chest gets a gnarly rash right in the middle of my chest where my HRM sits. I put a decent amount of body glide, and no change.

Anyone have a way to combat this?

  • @nonresonantOP
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    110 months ago

    Interesting. What are you using? Or, are referring to a Garmin watch, etc?

    • @davidalso
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      110 months ago

      Sorry yeah. Nothing fancy. Just a mid range Garmin. Vivoactive 3 I think?

      • @davidalso
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        110 months ago

        I had an older model watch that required a chest strap before that. I think it was my old Pebble. The way I tested was I wore the two watches at the same time and pulled the chest strap data from the older watch and compared it to the wrist monitor data from the new one. I couldn’t see any meaningful difference over about a week of running, so I happily gave up the chest strap.

        • @nonresonantOP
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          110 months ago

          Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.