On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 01:25  AM, Jim Swayze wrote:

> 1) In this process, we discovered that I've had the irregular heartbeat
> for years.  When I was a runner, I used to sometimes have difficulty
> getting my pulse right and often had to start over.  I thought nothing
> of
> it at the time, but in retrospect I can see that the heart was
> irregular
> even back then.

I had an irregular pulse when I was in heavy training in college. My
resting pulse was around 45, with a skipped beat every few beats. It
went away when I stopped training so hard. The doctor shrugged it off
as normal for runners.