How do you know if you’re making progress on your running goals? And do you rely more on objective data (such as pace and heart rate) or subjective feelings (such as perceived effort or enjoyment)?
I am training for my first marathon and I also use garmin. SImilar to your metrics, my race predicator and VO2 max started trending downward as I got deeper into training. I was worried I was losing fitness but it seems to be a common thing for garmin. Good luck in your training and marathon!
Yea for sure man, I feel like over time the data that Garmin collects on us gets saturated with the typical limitations and inaccuracies of the watch (especially when it comes to heart rate and sleep data, for example) and at some point various metrics get thrown off and never really gets corrected, so I always thought it might be handy if one day we were able to recalibrate those metrics through some type of fitness test or benchmark run, though I don't think that'll resolve the issue entirely since it'll likely just resurface later on (maybe this is a feature on newer watches but I wouldn't know - my Forerunner 245 is still hanging on for now haha)... in any case I still find it fairly cool to have access to a bunch of data and analytics, and sometimes the trends make sense, sometimes it doesn't but it's all good I guess... Thanks again for stopping by and hope your training goes well for your first marathon too!
Haha yea man there's only so much we can ask for from our running watches hey, it's probably trying its best given what it can log in terms of data and also the likely inaccuracies from the usual suspects (such as heart rate and sleep data) that come along with it!
I m using Garmin 965 and still take all these to a face value Rob as I don’t see them as accurate or doesn’t expect them to be. Vo2 I can see it matches to my fitness improvement over a period in my marathon training block - maybe you can rely on few things like a dead watch showing correct time twice a day kinda situation. I go by feeling and if my watch say I m ready even if m feeling low I just go - if I feel good and watch say I m low or poor I still go 😂.
How do you know if you’re making progress on your running goals? And do you rely more on objective data (such as pace and heart rate) or subjective feelings (such as perceived effort or enjoyment)?
I am training for my first marathon and I also use garmin. SImilar to your metrics, my race predicator and VO2 max started trending downward as I got deeper into training. I was worried I was losing fitness but it seems to be a common thing for garmin. Good luck in your training and marathon!
Yea for sure man, I feel like over time the data that Garmin collects on us gets saturated with the typical limitations and inaccuracies of the watch (especially when it comes to heart rate and sleep data, for example) and at some point various metrics get thrown off and never really gets corrected, so I always thought it might be handy if one day we were able to recalibrate those metrics through some type of fitness test or benchmark run, though I don't think that'll resolve the issue entirely since it'll likely just resurface later on (maybe this is a feature on newer watches but I wouldn't know - my Forerunner 245 is still hanging on for now haha)... in any case I still find it fairly cool to have access to a bunch of data and analytics, and sometimes the trends make sense, sometimes it doesn't but it's all good I guess... Thanks again for stopping by and hope your training goes well for your first marathon too!
Rob you are definitely in the minority with Garmin race predictor underestimating how much of an absolute beast you are 😅
Haha yea man there's only so much we can ask for from our running watches hey, it's probably trying its best given what it can log in terms of data and also the likely inaccuracies from the usual suspects (such as heart rate and sleep data) that come along with it!
I m using Garmin 965 and still take all these to a face value Rob as I don’t see them as accurate or doesn’t expect them to be. Vo2 I can see it matches to my fitness improvement over a period in my marathon training block - maybe you can rely on few things like a dead watch showing correct time twice a day kinda situation. I go by feeling and if my watch say I m ready even if m feeling low I just go - if I feel good and watch say I m low or poor I still go 😂.
Totally agreed man!