Garmin's more advanced training data/features

Duck_Puddle

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NorthCascades wrote: »

For what it's worth I've done one trail run this year, I spent a week in a wilderness with no bikes and it was too cold to swim. I got a VO2max estimate from it, a few points below normal. I was a lot slower on the trail so I thought it made sense.

I have a VO2max estimate, but it doesn't seem to be using data from the last few week (basically, since my road miles stopped). I also have no training status for the last few weeks.

Seems that, once again, Garmin is just a bit too fussy/specific for me. But this time, that's ok... because I bought the 935 knowing that I could wear it as an every day watch in addition to using it as a training tool. So I'm still getting my money's worth. But I'm still a little annoyed.

From what I understand (may have come from DCR's review and/or the comments section), Garmin won't calculate a VO2max estimate from trail running. So if you're specifying your runs as trail runs, that would explain the lack of data.

[ETA:] Not sure how that relates to/affects Training Status.

That’s correct on the trail runs. People complained back in the Fenix 3 days that trail run vo2max calculations were messing up their data so it’s in the documentation now that trail runs don’t calculate vo2max. I think there may have been a brief snafu early in the Fenix5 release when they were producing vo2max calculations (I vaguely recall reading something about that on the Garmin forums). My experience is consistent with that (no vo2max for trail runs).

And training status is a plot of training load (vs compared to your normal) and vo2max compared to prior vo2max. If your training load is within normal range and vo2max is consistent, you’ll get “maintaining.” If your training load is lower but vo2max is the same, you’ll get “recovery”.If your vo2max is higher than last time, you’ll get “productive” (for normal/higher training load) or “peaking” (for lower training load). If your vo2max is lower than last time, you’ll get “unproductive” (for normal training load), “overreaching” (for higher training load) or “detraining” (for lower training load). I may have missed one or two. But that’s the gyst.