Using Garmin’s Daily Suggested Workout for running – Week 9

“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 9 of what I will be doing from this test series. Exactly 2 weeks to go until my first A race for this season. As mentioned already, I will stop doing daily workouts afterwards and will switch to 3-4 times a week only. Want to rest and do some gym maybe, need to strengthen my core a little.

Peak phase will last until June 8: “The peak phase includes workouts to focus on speed and further increase the intensity of your training.”. Followed by Tapper phase between June 9 and 17.

This week I had 2 hard days, with a sprint and an anaerobic workouts. After the anaerobic workout, my lactate threshold changed to 4:37 /km at 161 bpm.

Here are the training stats details after 8 weeks of training. Info taken from Training Status on Garmin Connect page. Under ReportsAll activities.

Running VO₂ max: 53. “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 steadily.

“HRV status provides a 7-day average of your overnight heart rate variability compared to your HRV baseline.”. Something happened during 2 days and it went to Unbalanced state but it managed to recover and get on track.

Week 9MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
PlannedRecovery 30:00 @6:35 /kmVO2 Max 40:00 7×2:00@4:15 /kmBase 42:00 @5:45 /kmThreshold 42:00 3×6:00@4:35 /kmRestBase 42:00 @5:45 /kmBase 39:00 @5:45 /km
ActualRecovery 30:00 @6:35 /km but I restedVO2 Max 42:00 4×4:00@4:15 /kmBase 46:00 @5:45 /kmThreshold 38:00 18:00@4:35 /kmRestBase 46:00 @5:45 /kmBase 46:00 @5:45 /km
This week’s plan as seen on Sunday afternoon (after the morning run) and the actual workout seen from the watch on each specific day.

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