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191bpm is the highest recording I've ever seen for my own heartrate, my age-calculated max is 196. The 191bpm incident isn't something I recall as being particularly taxing (a short, stiff hill-climb, but not one I was really going for it on). Climbing in the Italian Dolomites this year only took me to 186bpm and I was blowing out my arse then so I can only assume the 191bpm reading was an error.
My resting heart rate is 52bpm which puts me in the "athlete" category for wimmin, prompting gales of laughter from anybody who's ever seen me crawling up a small hill at 3mph with a face so red that vehicles mistake me for a stop light.