I did a 26 mile ride on Zwift yesterday and it has gone across to Garmin connect and my watch fine. However, it shows that my exercise load was 174 and yet this has not been reflected in my training load at all. My training load decreased when really it should have increased. I’ve tried deleting the ride and reuploading, editing minor details of the ride…nothing makes a difference. So now all my metrics are wrong and there’s no way to get the exercise load to update to training load. Any ideas. It definitely should have increased. Training load before ride was 399 so adding on the 26 mile ride it should have increased into the 500s. No idea why this one activity isn’t working. It always has before. Now my watch tells me I’m unproductive and exercise suggestions are all wrong.

Exercise load not updating my training load

9495499 22 days ago

I did a 26 mile ride on Zwift yesterday and it has gone across to Garmin connect and my watch fine. However, it shows that my exercise load was 174 and yet this has not been reflected in my training load at all. My training load decreased when really it should have increased. I’ve tried deleting the ride and reuploading, editing minor details of the ride…nothing makes a difference. So now all my metrics are wrong and there’s no way to get the exercise load to update to training load. Any ideas. It definitely should have increased.
Training load before ride was 399 so adding on the 26 mile ride it should have increased into the 500s. No idea why this one activity isn’t working. It always has before. Now my watch tells me I’m unproductive and exercise suggestions are all wrong.

0 9495499 22 days ago

Also, I have synced everything multiple times. It seems like an error, like connect is not counting the exercise load at all! There doesn’t seem to be any way to fix this. I have contacted support but it takes ages for them to respond to an email. Am I just stuck with incorrect data until they respond?

0 trux 22 days ago in reply to 9495499

Some troubleshooting tips are available here:

Can Third-Party Activities Impact My Garmin Training Metrics? | Garmin Customer Support

0 9495499 22 days ago in reply to trux

thanks but I’ve tried all this. The activity is there, it shows the exercise load. It’s just that the exercise load hasn’t changed the training load. It’s really weird.

0 druidh 20 days ago in reply to 9495499

Have you checked your Max HR and LTHR? I've not yet done the maths but my reported LTHR erroneously increased to 188 (from 166) a couple of weeks ago and seems to have thrown out all of my Training Load calculations.

0 clonetrooper 19 days ago

That happened to me many times when I used my Edge 1050 for a ride and after saving it and the ride showing up in Garmin connect, I hade no data sync with my watch no matter how many times I tried to sync. Only after I did another activitiy and saved it, the ride data showed up on my watch.