Fitness heart rate and weight loss rs700

This is nature's way of telling you it's time to get a keelboat.

P.S. I sail keelboats.

Being on rack position 5 on the rs700 with baby bars means you get wet if you make a mistake. On rack position 3 I could stay dry by climbing up the inside of the boat quickly and going between racks no baby bars. I am trying to lose weight to get on position 6 so that I can go between the racks after a mistake as they are wider apart.

The Main point of the sunnto t6 for me is to stop overtraining,

 I hate the gym and have now found out that sailing is a great way to keep fit and lose weight without going to the gym. If you look my heart rate on a laser 1 race it looks like interval training. 160-140 bpm upwind then a 120-100 bpm downwind.

I sail for 5 hrs at a time, now by using technology I now know i am overtraining.

Its like gps just for fun, but it could help me get fit to sail for four days at lake garda without get ill.

I wish I had my t6 on at the masters at swanage a few years ago in a laser 1, two days of force 6 with big waves, then a three hours drive home, legs like lead and that cluch in a traffic jam.

sample below saling laser 1

I hit 173 bmp heart rate 3 times on that race but suunto t6 has no gps, so i think it was went gaz went past me in his IC leaving me for dead on that reach, then when he put his foot down on the beat leaving me in his exhaust . ic rule ok,go gaz go

iv found in the past with the laser 1 that sailing in a blow training hard is always a lower heart rate than racing, could not pinpoint why,may be you donot feel pain on a good race day?

im going to take my forerunner 305 with me next time. its like the fortrek but has a heart belt as well. ill be able to see heart rate as i go around the course on the computer later. 

on sunday  HR went between 160 and 130 and got a highly inproving result on the epoc training effect. most of the time spent in the moderate or hard training zone for first race, then wind dropped off staying at 140- 120 for next 3 hours then went in well cream cracked.

I will take more fluid with me next time but what  goes in must come out and it hard work going in between races and less fun as we had 4 mini races between race 2 and 3 ,thee RS700 and one ic.