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Level 3 Marathon Heart Rate Training Plan bugs

Hopefully this is the right place to post so that Garmin Technical Support sees it. Please let me know if not.

There are a few errors with the programmed training plan workouts as part of the Level 3 Marathon Heart rate training plans that I wanted to let Garmin know about to be able to correct them. They all involve the workout indicating that there should be a warmup BUT the actual programmed workout does not include a warmup event and instead goes right into the workout. This is a deviation of most of the others.

The workouts in question are the following that most likely need to be updated on the formal Training Plans Garmin through Garmin Connect. I have personally edited them so they are fixed on my side but for others (especially new people to the plan) it would be beneficial if Garmin updated them.

W01D6b
W06D2
W08D2
W11D3
W14D2b
W16D2

0 DrTre over 10 years ago

By the way, W02D4 as part of the level 3 heart rate marathon plan says the Zone 4 segment is at 10 minutes but the program has it at 20 minutes. My guess is it is suppose to be 10 minutes this early on in the training program. So, it most likely should be switched from 20 min to 10 min in the plan's program.

0 DrTre over 10 years ago

Another issue I just found. W04D2b does not have the rest segment within the repeated interval and it should.

0 DrTre over 10 years ago

Here is another while I'm at it. W05D6b indicates the first 10 minutes is to be done at Z2 for 10 minutes but the program has it as a warmup with no heart rate target. My guess is it should be switched to a target to conform with other similar workouts as part of the plan.

0 DrTre over 10 years ago

Here are some more inconsistencies that I have found wight he level 3 heart rate marathon training plan.

In this case, it has to deal with the Threshold workouts. In some cases, there is a "warmup" before a zone 2 segment and then a z4 segment. In other cases, there is just a zone 2 segment that leads into a z4 interval. It looks like there is an inconsistency here and looking over all of the threshold workouts that most likely there shouldn't be a warmup and just have the z2 segment lead to the z4 segment.

The workouts that are in question are the following along with their current setup:

W06D2 has 10 min warmup, 10 min z2 , 20 min z4, 10 min z2

W07D2b has 10 min z2, 30 min z4, 10 min z2

W08D2b has 15 min warmup, 15 min z2, 25 min z4, 15 min z2

W10D4b has 10 min warmup, 10 min z4, 10 min z2

W12D2b has 15 min z2, 15 min z4, 15 min z2

W12D4b has 10 min z2, 25 min z4, 10 min z2

W14D4b has 10 min z2, 20 min z4, 10 min z2

W15D4b has 15 min warmup, 30 min z4, 15 min z2

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

And yet it is unbelievable how much money we give them, and they are in no condition to fix this after 5 years... Well done garmin, well done...

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I doubt anyone from Garmin actually saw these posts. These forums are pretty much user to user support, very little actual Garmin input. (It would be nice if Garmin actually read the issues in this forum, but from others posts, it is apparent they do not).

If you want them to know about this, you should file a support ticket.