Using Garmin’s Daily Suggested Workout for running – Week 8

“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 8 of what I will be doing from this test series. 3 more weeks to go until my first A race for this season. Afterwards I will stop doing daily workouts and will do 3-4 times a week only. My body asks me for some rest.

This week will kill me! It looks like we’re all in with longer runs, no more 30 min runs… And intensity…, let’s not start this discussion 🙂

I’m still in Peak phase until June 8: “The peak phase includes workouts to focus on speed and further increase the intensity of your training.”.

Here are the training stats details after 7 weeks of training. Info taken from Training Status on Garmin Connect page. Under ReportsAll activities.

Running VO₂ max: Still at 53. Lucky me!

“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 8MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
PlannedTempo 56:00 36:00@4:55 /kmRecovery 28:00 @6:55 /kmSprint 51:00 9×0:10@2:55 /kmBase 1:05:00 @5:55 /kmAnaerobic 50:00 7×1:00@3:55 /kmLong run 1:30:00 @5:55 /kmBase 42:00 @5:55 /km
ActualTempo 56:00 36:00@4:55 /kmRecovery 28:00 @6:55 /km but I took a rest dayBase 1:07:00 @5:50 /kmSprint 44:00 7×0:10@2:55 /kmAnaerobic 50:00 7×1:00@3:55 /kmLong run 1:27:00 @5:45 /kmBase 42:00 @5:45 /km
This week’s plan as seen on Monday afternoon (after the morning run) and the actual workout seen from the watch on each specific day.

Tuesday: Took a rest days instead of active recovery. Due to this, my plan changed a lot! I now have more intense workouts during the second half of the week.

Friday: After the Anaerobic workout my threshold got updated, as a result of this my “base pace” is not 5:45 instead of 5:55 /km

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