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

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MudMeanderer
MudMeanderer
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1:23pm, 9 Sep 2024
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What's your intensity look like? I don't know Garmin's specific metric, but TSS is linear with duration and quadratic with intensity. So any drop in HR for a given pace will need a bigger increase in volume to achieve the same aggregate load.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
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1:31pm, 9 Sep 2024
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It's not all plodding, about 25% was classified as High Aerobic. But even if it was all plodding, 54 miles of running isn't a low volume of training for a casual athlete.
Jaks
Jaks
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1:57pm, 9 Sep 2024
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I’ve got the opposite V’rap
MudMeanderer
MudMeanderer
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2:14pm, 9 Sep 2024
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It's not a low volume, but the metric is looking to see if the aggregate load is generally increasing (a small positive ramp rate). It's a way of indicating whether there is sufficient stimulus to produce improvement, or are you heading for a plateau (accepting things like periodisation, maintenance, tapering).

It's the personal trend in load it's looking at. An interesting exercise maybe to calculate the total number of heartbeats per week during exercise over those weeks and see the shape of the resulting curve.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
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Impressive, Jaks, even allowing for you having spent August walking rather than running :-O I get such a small score from walking that I'd have been down in single figures by the end of August,

Interesting, MM :) A runner could get into quite a pickle with overtraining if they relied on the Garmin headline announcements alone.
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
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2:37pm, 9 Sep 2024
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I’ve said it before …. Garmin metrics do seem to be random number generators of doom!
MudMeanderer
MudMeanderer
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2:47pm, 9 Sep 2024
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Yes, periodisation doesn't seem to be well incorporated into the Garmin system. Like TSS it's a reasonable monitor for transitioning between volumes, but probably not for continuous use.

There are other subtle implications if you're making a switch to very high intensity (e.g. if incorporating lots of anaerobic/sprint work), as it doesn't overly well account for the muscular damage that can do. strava has an interesting adaptation to its intensity calculation that helps slightly, but it still needs care with monitoring.
Ness
Ness
9 Sep
4:00pm, 9 Sep 2024
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Ness
My Garmin seems to have lost all my training load data! Don't Know why! 🤷‍♀️

EvilPixie
EvilPixie
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4:01pm, 9 Sep 2024
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You can’t be doing anything then @Ness 😂😂
Ness
Ness
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4:01pm, 9 Sep 2024
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Ness
Exactly! 🤪🤣

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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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