<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.52 year old male, 212 pounds, 6 foot 1, run 25-40 miles per week, completed 53 marathons and set to run another Sep 25, had blood pressure reading today of 14269, pulse 64. Should I be worried about the 142 part of the blood pressure reading. I know that 69 is in the normal range.  <response>: First make sure the blood pressure is accurate:1 rested. Most people the 64 means its rested in you. Probably NOT.2 NOT takingmoving during the taking of the blood pressure; it throws off the reading, and it gets artificially high on the top number.3 might want to take it lying down. When I was 20 I had a worse reading when demonstrating how to take a blood pressure reading in front of the medical school class nerves. Lying down and taken correctly it was 12682. 