Garmin Status - what does Garmin say about you today?!
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16 Apr
10:34am, 16 Apr 2025
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Big_G
Velo, I have DD in mine, although I’ve no intention of following what it says. When I put it in, Garmin got the race details from a verified source, but it appears to have no knowledge that it’s a hilly race. The training suggestions aren’t saying anything along the lines of ‘get out on the hills’, and the paces it’s giving aren’t at all possible on the kind of hills that the DD has. Basically, it is useless.
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16 Apr
10:36am, 16 Apr 2025
23,719 posts
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Gooner
I am yet to ever listen to a suggested run from mine. They often seem random and often counter productive, but then I never put planned races into it, not that it would seem that it changes much.
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16 Apr
10:42am, 16 Apr 2025
44,992 posts
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Nellers
Running is such a small part of my overall training that the daily suggestions are pretty much meaningless (2 runs per week against 7 or 8 non-running "cardio" workouts and 3 or 4 weights sessions). I guess if it ever gives me something tempo-ish on the right day I might give it a try instead of what I would have been doing anyway but what are the chances? |
16 Apr
10:43am, 16 Apr 2025
74,808 posts
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Velociraptor
I've put DD in now, @Big_G. Garmin found the existing listing so I've accepted that. This is just ghoulish curiosity. I know I'd get more sense out of ChatGPT or any random person who posts on Fetch. @Gooner, I haven't found that adding races has changed much. It does tell me it's doing training blocks from time to time, then takes no notice of them. |
16 Apr
10:45am, 16 Apr 2025
65,517 posts
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EvilPixie
I have fenix 6 and Garmin confirmed that training suggestions do not take any notice of events in this model. Which, given what I read here, makes me wonder if it does on any watch 😂 |
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16 Apr
10:52am, 16 Apr 2025
74,809 posts
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Velociraptor
@Nellers, I probably accept a suggested session about once a month, but I almost never look at a suggested session and think, "It wasn't what I had in mind, but it's a good idea."
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16 Apr
11:01am, 16 Apr 2025
17,836 posts
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Badger
Mine does tell me that it has put me in a taper phase, which is something. Today's suggestion hasn't changed (but it isn't entirely unreasonable at an hour easy). Tomorrow's is now a threshold session which, if you added another 600 metres, would say "Go out and run 10k 6 seconds outside your all time PB". There's a tempo session on Monday, and the week from today to next Tuesday adds up to 55km, which is on the heavy side for this late in the taper IMO. I'll watch what it comes up with for the last few days. #mywatchisstilltryingtokillme |
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16 Apr
11:02am, 16 Apr 2025
17,837 posts
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Badger
I do reckon that if I followed the sessions in general, I'd have reasonably varied training, which is good, but I don't think the long runs are long enough and I think the speed sessions are overambitious (that threshold session is typical).
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16 Apr
11:35am, 16 Apr 2025
44,993 posts
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Nellers
The fact that so many of us have "anaerobic shortage" or "High aerobic shortage" for the training focus so often says a lot about what Garmin's algorithms think running fitness should look like. They seem to be (and justifiably to some degree) aiming at the majority of users who are going to be running 5ks and 10ks and maybe the odd Half. They're not looking at data with all that many ultra runners I guess. You'd think it would cope reasonably well with a marathon, though. They must have a pretty big data sample for marathon distance. |
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16 Apr
3:26pm, 16 Apr 2025
23,724 posts
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Gooner
I'd suggest it seems to work off an overall numbers basis and whilst it will have plenty of people that have completed marathon distances to work off, that percentage will be quite small compared to the amount that regularly run 5-6k a time and so it looks like it just caters to the masses rather than individually. Though maybe it is right as for the most part, people should be doing more strength training. As an aside, personally, mine seems to generally show a high aerobic overload with low and anaerobic being optimal. Probably due to strength training being my main focus at present and my running fitness being quite low so even easier efforts show as high aerobic for the most part. |
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