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You’re familiar with the feeling of your heart pounding in your chest, your blood pulsing through your veins with increasing frequency when you’re scared, stressed, or sweating it out at the gym.

To get a sense of what average running heart rates look like for the pros, we peeked at some of their public Strava posts.