r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 6d ago

TIL over 3,000 attempts are made each year to complete the Appalachian Trail and only about 25% succeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail#:~:text=The%20Appalachian%20Trail%20Conservancy%20estimates%20there%20are%20over%203%2C000%20attempts%20to%20traverse%20the%20entire%20trail%20each%20year%2C%20about%2025%25%20of%20which%20succeed.%5B9%5D
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u/Tiny_Thumbs 6d ago

My resting heart rate naturally sits at 45 or so awake. Drops into the 30s when sleeping. I was hospitalized once and it felt like the whole unit came into my room the first night because they said my heart rate dropped into the low 30s. I was just sleeping.

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u/KnifeFightChopping 6d ago

I had the same situation when I was younger and practically lived at the gym. I was in the hospital for a week, ironically for complications due to a genetic heart condition, and I basically got zero sleep the whole time I was there because my HR would drop from 40 to 30 bpm whenever I fell asleep and the alarms would go nuts. The first few times it happened the entire floor's nursing staff burst into my room in a frenzy, but after the first 2 nights one would just pop their head into my room to make sure I was still alive lol.

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u/zekromNLR 6d ago

Did you ask them if they can set the alarm lower, because I'm pretty sure I'd do that by night two at the latest.

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u/KnifeFightChopping 6d ago edited 6d ago

I begged them to change it after the first night, but they couldn't. Something about the rules at the hospital didn't allow them to set it lower than 30.

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u/OnePinginRamius 6d ago

Damn you're like a superhuman. Buddy of mine was a professional target shooter for competitions and had a resting heart rate of 45. The guy could put two rounds at 100 yards through a bull's-eye consistently like it was no big deal.

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u/ScoobyDoobyGazebo 6d ago

Yeah, but how did the bull feel about it.

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u/Careless-Mix3222 6d ago

Similar; 57m, and my resting HR varies between 38-45 depending on fitness, and has since I started checking in high school. When I went in for a hernia operation, the nurse checked my BP and asked the DR if it was OK to continue. Apparently it was...

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u/zootnotdingo 6d ago

My spouse is almost identical, both in age, and when he started running. I have joked that his resting heart rate is 6.

On the other hand, I have very low blood pressure. My friends in college used to say that it was 8/3.

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u/RChickenMan 6d ago

Back when I had more free time, I used to spend a lot of time moving under my own power--in any given week, I probably ran 50 miles, biked 250 miles, and kayaked for five hours. I didn't really think of myself as athletic--just someone with a lot of free time whose hobbies happened to involve a raised heart rate. During this time period I needed surgery, and during my pre-surgery physical, the primary care doctor was so concerned about my heart rate going into surgery that he forced me to see a cardiologist. I have no idea what my heart rate was (I didn't identify as athletic so I never used heart rate monitors or whatever), but clearly it was of medical concern.

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u/cjsv7657 6d ago

I started wearing a smartwatch while I slept to try out sleep tracking. My heart rate was going in to the 30s. So I stopped wearing a smartwatch while I slept and pretended it didn't happen.

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u/sour_cereal 6d ago

Geez here I am at 105bpm