Using Garmin’s Daily Suggested Workout for running – Week 6

“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 6 of what I will be doing from this test series. So far, so good! 🙂

This week looks harder than the one before. There is one long run with is way over my available time so I will see how I will squeeze this in.

I’m still in the Build Phase until May 18: “The build phase ramps us the intensity of workouts to increase your aerobic capacity.”. This phase will be followed by “peak phase”, between May 19 and June 8.

Here are the training stats details after 5 weeks of training. Info taken from Training Status on Garmin Connect page. Under ReportsAll activities.

Running VO₂ max: Dropped to 51 during the weekend but it went back to 52 after this morning’s run. “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 quite fast.

“HRV status provides a 7-day average of your overnight heart rate variability compared to your HRV baseline.”. I’m not quite sure yet on how to interpret this data; will need to look into this.

Week 6MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
PlannedBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmRecovery 28:00 @6:45 /kmThreshold 18:00 @4:45 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmLong run 1:27:00 @5:55 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /km
ActualBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmRecovery 28:00 @6:45 /km or RestThreshold 18:00 @4:45 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /kmLong run 1:25:00 @5:55 /kmRecovery 28:00 @6:45 /km or Rest
This week’s plan as seen on Monday afternoon (after the morning base run) and the actual workout seen from the watch on each specific day.

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