Garmin Status - what does Garmin say about you today?!

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EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Feb 2023
9:00am, 1 Feb 2023
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EvilPixie
What's this virtual race I keep hearing about?
Ness
Ness
Feb 2023
9:12am, 1 Feb 2023
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Ness
It's a series of virtual miles that Fenland Flier has put in the race listing, Pix. One mile each month. I'm doing them to track my progress. Here's a log where he mentions them....

fetcheveryone.com/blog/67905/2023/1/462136
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Feb 2023
9:13am, 1 Feb 2023
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EvilPixie
OIC!
ta I may do some
Jaks
Jaks
Feb 2023
9:26am, 1 Feb 2023
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Jaks
HRV balanced.

Training status maintaining

Resting HR a bit higher than normal but still in range.

Body battery 77
Sleep score 80 good (this is brilliant for me)
tipsku
tipsku
Feb 2023
9:53am, 1 Feb 2023
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I got the elusive 100 BB today with a good sleep that brought it back up from 25. Still, Garmin tells me off for not sleeping enough. I have told Garmin my normal sleep time (2-9 am, so 7 hours, not 8 and pretty late) but it still harps on that I'm not getting enough sleep and I'm going to bed too late. Nope, that's just my schedule.

I'm still recovering, 39 hours to go, despite doing only easy runs yesterday. Training load is optimal but I'm in recovery mode. The algorithm is confused.
SPR
SPR
Feb 2023
10:08am, 1 Feb 2023
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SPR
From observation, Garmin thinks you need at least 7 hours of sleep and this excludes any portions when you're awake during the night (although these will feed into sleep rating). It doesn't care about your schedule AFAIK. Presumably if you're going to bed with a 7 hour window you never actually get 7 hours?

The going to bed late is in theory about sleep quality but not sure whether it truly reads that or just automatically thinks late sleep is bad.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Feb 2023
10:08am, 1 Feb 2023
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Velociraptor
Yesterday while sitting in a friend's house chatting I got my first ever "your recovery time has improved because you've been nice and relaxed" message. From which I deduce that I need to spend more time socialising and less time trying to get my head round other people's echo chambers. It's not been impressed with my HRV for the last few days but says I can do a little bit of training today after telling me to rest for the past three days.
tipsku
tipsku
Feb 2023
10:47am, 1 Feb 2023
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tipsku
SPR, in an experiment to 'normalize' my sleep schedule, I went to bed before midnight for a few weeks and got the worst stretch sleep of quality Garmin had ever recorded. My sleep was restless and interrupted for the first couple of hours and I didn't get into deep sleep until after 2 am. So the theory, that the deepest and most restful sleep happens early, doesn't apply to me - if Garmin does a good job recording that. It probably measures that I'm restless in bed and my RHR is high. It was as if I was coming down with something, 5-10 BPM higher as usual. Subjectively, I didn't feel rested and my concentration suffered as a result which is why I moved my bedtime back after midnight. RHR went back to normal and my concentration is better, too. 2 am is the backend of the window, I aim for 1 am. Since I'm fine with 6:30-7:00 hours of sleep, getting up around 7:30 or 8:00 still works, if I have to be up. I'm on a flexible schedule.
SPR
SPR
Feb 2023
10:52am, 1 Feb 2023
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tipsku sounds like Garmin automatically classes late sleep as a possible issue from that. It certainly seems you're getting good recovery if you got from 25 to 100 in less than/ around 7 hours yesterday.
tipsku
tipsku
Feb 2023
11:00am, 1 Feb 2023
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tipsku
Yes, that's what I suspect. It takes the averages of the population as the gold standard and doesn't work with individual data - by now, it should have understood what normal is for me. As an owl, I'm getting bad ratings by default even though the actual data captured shows that I had good and restful sleep. So I'm ignoring those digs at my schedule.

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Maintained by EvilPixie
According to my Garmin this morning my body battery was at just 41 and I was "strained"
I have been strained for most days in the last 2 weeks
My body battery has also been low

So today it suggested a threshold run of up to an hour!

What's your Garmin say?

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