

Since her earliest years, Molly had attended University Lake School, a small K-12 school in Hartland with a high-school enrollment of less than 100 (plus some classes at St. But mostly, it's just hard to definitively forecast success at that age. Sometimes they were the product of some embellishment from an excited sports community member. I covered high school sports for a decade and a half, and I heard a lot of enthusiastic stories about up-and-coming talent. I'm sure I nodded, but I also remember being quietly dismissive. I was sports director at the time covering the area, and Cynthia had kids roughly the same age as Molly Seidel, who won the Olympic bronze medal in the marathon Friday. Joan of Arc Parish track team in Nashotah, that she might be worth a profile story. My colleague at Lake Country Publications, Cynthia Luksich, tried to tell me how special this middle schooler was on the St. In fact, runners often cruise through the first few stages of stress tests-cardiology exams that require increasingly hard efforts on the treadmill.View Gallery: Tokyo Olympics: Molly Seidel takes bronze medal in women's marathon Ruwanthi Titano, a cardiologist with Mount Sinai Health System. Regular runners tend to have lower heart rates at rest and at every level of physical activity, from light to moderate to intense, says Dr. RELATED: How to Use Heart Rate Training in Your Workouts Like a Pro Regular training can boost your stroke volume over time, but in the moment, the only way for your heart to meet increased demands is to pick up the pace. That figure is the product of your heart rate and one other factor: your stroke volume, or the amount of blood pushed out with each pulse. Elaine Wan, Esther Aboodi associate professor of medicine in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons and attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

To get it there, your heart needs to increase your cardiac output-the number of liters per minute of oxygen-rich blood it pushes through your arteries, says Dr. But when is a high heart rate, especially on an easy run or jog, cause for concern?Īs you increase your effort level from a walk to a jog and beyond, your muscles require more oxygen to produce energy. And a ramped-up heart rate during any type of exercise is not only normal, it’s necessary. That heart-pumping, give-it-your-all feeling is one of the reasons many of us run in the first place.
