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Running daily recommendation extremely slow, I think the AI behind is not reading all my previous activities.

alsiepan
5 months ago

Why my running daily recommendation is too low? Everytime I do my running the watch is recommending me to do an excessively low run (base run above 6’/km) while I am an experience runner, and I can hardly run that slow! I think the AI behind these proposals is not taking into account all the history of my activities

  • 0 5 months ago

    My 2 cents: a lot of runners run too fast most of the time. And ending up in covering lots of middle ground, ending up running too fast when they should run slow and too slow when they should run fast. Of course pace depends on the athlete. For you 6min/km is slow, for others it might be very fast. Last but not least it depends what you are training for. For a marathon most of the training should feel easy. 5k or 10k training requires a different effort.

    I'm recommending to start with some youtube videos of Stephen Seiler where he explains polarized training.

    Having said this I think that Garmin's recommendations are on the safe side, meaning that you probably won't get challenged that much, making sure that you stay injury free.

    Sorry if I may sound patronizing, not my goal, but just my thoughts on this.

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to schmjoe

    Thanks a lot for your answer, I appreciate it and understand your comments.

    And yes, I also know that you must alternate the training patterns and paces, and this is what I do. So my surprise is that the watch is ALWAYS recommending the same pace, too low and therefore my feeling is that is not taking any type of consideration about all the past activities - slow or easy long runs, fartleks trainings or intervals trainings...I do alternate all of them, and my expectations from the AI is that is able to understand, consider and adapt what I normally do (and can do) with what is suggesting.

    My feeling: it has standard training recommendations that somehow are adapted to the runner, but it is not real AI that completely understand the athlet, the history of him/her and therefore is like an coach for YOU..

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to alsiepan

    BTW, I am wearing a Garmin Forerunner 965

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to alsiepan

    Nice watch :-)

    Do you have an event scheduled?

    I just looked into the suggested training for my next Marathon in October. I have set this up as an event in Connect. The paces vary from 6:45 to 4:30 (Target finish time of 3:55:00).

    That is more or less in line with my pace range based on a training plan from Hanson's Marathon Training.

    There are quite a few experience reports with DSW on youtube or via Google search. Maybe some more insights to be found there.

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to schmjoe

    Yes, I do have an event scheduled, and also had in the past.

    Will check those videos, thanks a lot for your inputs! :)