Garmin

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SPR 19 Sep 10:55am, 19 Sep 2024 46,171 posts	0 SPR It's still you, it's just telling you how it reads your capability. If fairly accurate, it could even serve at a starting pace cap. If my watch had predicted something more reasonable than circa 1:25 for HM last year, I might have used it for that. Of course I might have still got sucked in by something faster. I think 78 was a reasonable target but I started thinking about 76 but hadn't done the training to hold that pace. I did an 8 mile training run at 77 min pace 18 days before though and that got me thinking greedily, lol. McMillan predicted 1:16:43 from my 3000 that year.
Big_G 19 Sep 10:58am, 19 Sep 2024 4,023 posts	0 Big_G Yes, I agree with what you’re saying SPR. Larkim, if it was accurate, it would be a useful datapoint amongst all the other data points you probably pore over A bit like when looking at weather forecast apps - look at 4 and then choose the most appropriate one
larkim 19 Sep 11:02am, 19 Sep 2024 25,639 posts	0 larkim Yes, agree with that. It's a bit too "black box" for me at the moment though. Let me play around with how the various inputs are working towards the output and perhaps I could engage with it better.
Sam Jelfs 19 Sep 11:11am, 19 Sep 2024 1,493 posts	0 Sam Jelfs Interesting issue with my watch this morning, it decided that I had a route loaded with 50,000m of elevation. Strange that it shows right on Garmin connect.
chunkywizard 19 Sep 11:28am, 19 Sep 2024 17,541 posts	0 chunkywizard Hi SPR, here's my predictor for the last 4 weeks. It doesn't show the same step as yours but it is trending upwards!
SPR 19 Sep 11:38am, 19 Sep 2024 46,172 posts	0 SPR @chunkyblizzard probably worth checking if you have the right update in System - About and via the Garmin forum to confirm the update version number for your model. I imagine for some people the update didn't change anything though if the calculation change still somehow produced the same result.
Gooner 19 Sep 11:59am, 19 Sep 2024 20,809 posts	0 Gooner Mine has a distinct shift to being slower on all distances recently which is definitely closer to real world best efforts but still not close enough fore to take seriously
chunkywizard 19 Sep 1:34pm, 19 Sep 2024 17,542 posts	0 chunkywizard Yep, just checked, I'm on the latest, 20.29
NordRunner 19 Sep 4:02pm, 19 Sep 2024 4,565 posts	0 NordRunner I forced an update on the Epix this morning. I just noticed my one race has disappeared from the watch calendar, with the effect that the daily suggestion would not be geared to the race. Grr! Luckily, if you go to the calendar entry on the app you can send it to the watch and resync and then it appears again. As for the predictions, I have seen no change.
SPR 19 Sep 4:33pm, 19 Sep 2024 46,174 posts	0 SPR chunkyblizzard wrote:Yep, just checked, I'm on the latest, 20.29 So you're someone where nothing changed. It would be nice to have more details on the change.