Garmin

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EvilPixie Jul 2024 11:45am, 19 Jul 2024 56,085 posts	0 EvilPixie That’s why I was wondering if it was a “keep training and you could …” time!
Velociraptor Jul 2024 11:48am, 19 Jul 2024 69,964 posts	0 Velociraptor Mine tend to be just slightly optimistic now, and a lot less wild than they used to be.
larkim Jul 2024 11:48am, 19 Jul 2024 25,220 posts	0 larkim Broadly it is a measurement of you, today, without really incorporating the context of what your training load has been for the last x weeks, what specificity you've done to achieve the times etc. Must admit I never pay them any attention!
EvilPixie Jul 2024 11:49am, 19 Jul 2024 56,086 posts	0 EvilPixie Thanks Food for thought
AndyS Jul 2024 11:57am, 19 Jul 2024 2,862 posts	0 AndyS I've just taken a look at mine - they're all significantly quicker than my PBs at each distance. All of which were run between October 2019 and March 2020 - right before I got covid. I'll never get anywhere near any of those again.
Ness Jul 2024 12:08pm, 19 Jul 2024 43,145 posts	0 Ness My race predictor on Garmin are crazy! 5k Half 22:43 1:53:31 10k Marathon 48:07 4:30:48 I don't know how these figures are calculated but I'm not even close to those!
Ness Jul 2024 12:10pm, 19 Jul 2024 43,146 posts	0 Ness Oops the format of that last post didn't work well... 5k - 22:43 Half - 1:53:31 10k - 48:07 Marathon - 4:30:48
SPR Jul 2024 12:14pm, 19 Jul 2024 45,280 posts	0 SPR larkim wrote:Broadly it is a measurement of you, today, without really incorporating the context of what your training load has been for the last x weeks, what specificity you've done to achieve the times etc. Must admit I never pay them any attention! That's true of the new predictor that takes training load into account. It's just a very cookie cutter formula which will mean it expects two people with the same VO2 Max that have done the same training to run the same time. Even assuming that the VO2 Max is correct, that might not be true. For me it's not very good at what it's supposed to do and is too slow.
SPR Jul 2024 12:14pm, 19 Jul 2024 45,281 posts	0 SPR Sorry, that's not true of the new predictor.
larkim Jul 2024 12:31pm, 19 Jul 2024 25,225 posts	0 larkim SPR wrote:Sorry, that's not true of the new predictor. Ah, ok - do we "know" how much that is played into things? Or is it just a volume / load measurement?