Using Garmin’s Daily Suggested Workout for running – Week 5

“Daily Suggested Workouts are workout recommendations made by your watch to provide a level of challenge to help you maintain or improve your current fitness level.”. This is the description of this feature from here https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=oYknGZ910l1pfBNzkDHX6A.

This is week 5 of what I will be doing from this test series. Well, well, well… 4 weeks done! Overall, I liked it and I’m feeling good, better, stronger 🙂

So far, this week shows two 1h runs, a tempo and a long run, and time increases for all base runs. I guess the plan is starting to increase the intensity; enough with mileage to build endurance. As the watch shows it, I’m in the Build Phase during 28 Apr to 18 May: “The build phase ramps us the intensity of workouts to increase your aerobic capacity.”.

Here are the training stats details after 4 weeks of training. Info taken from Training Status on Garmin Connect page. Under ReportsAll activities.

Running VO₂ max: 52, no changes since last week. “VO₂ Max is a good indication of your cardiovascular fitness and should increase as your level of fitness improves.”

“Exercise load measures how much oxygen your body consumes for recovery after an activity. The longer or more intense the activity, the higher the score.”

“Acute training load is a weighted sum of your recent exercise load scores. It’s rated low, optimal or high based on your fitness level and training history.”. The green tunnel seems to be heading up now.

HRV Status graph appeared out of nowhere… “HRV status provides a 7-day average of your overnight heart rate variability compared to your HRV baseline.”

Week 5MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
PlannedRecovery 28:00 @6:45 /kmTempo 1:05:00 4×9:00 @5:00 /kmBase 34:00 @5:55 /kmBase 34:00 @5:55 /kmRestBase 47:00 @5:55 /kmLong run 1:11:00 @5:55 /km
ActualDecided to take a rest insteadTempo 1:05:00 4×9:00 @5:00 /kmBase 34:00 @5:55 /kmRestSprints
7×0.10 @3:00 /km
Base 46:00 @5:55 /kmBase 1:10:00 @5:55 /km
This week’s plan as seen on Monday morning and the actual workout seen from the watch on each specific day.

Monday: The Recovery workout today says “Active recovery or rest suggested”, so I chose the later 🙂 probably above planned workouts will change due to this.

Thursday: Plan changed from Base to Recovery but I decided to rest because tomorrow the plan added sprints instead of my well-deserved rest day.

Saturday and Sunday: I spent the weekend in the Pyrenees, on the French side. The two training sessions were done at 1700 altitude and it was great! My VO2 max seems to have suffered but this is normal when training to higher altitude than usually.

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