After over 7 hours of trail marathon the training status...

Yesterday I did this trail marathon https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1717575153

Hear rate was low but still, over 7 hours and I feel my muscles are in need of a break. Just that the training status told me I am in the LOW are, like nothing just happenend. I am on 3.21b, I wonder if this is the culprit!

0 Dr Phil over 8 years ago

We weren't racing when we did our 60km on Saturday so recovery is much easier than the 30km mountain trail run the week before. No DOMS!

I had an easy 60km bike ride the day after. Gave myself yesterday off, but will be back out for an easy 10km tonight. If that feels alright, I'll look at 10km with some tempo efforts Wednesday morning and an hour on the wind trainer if I can get motivated in the evening, an evening run on the trails on Thursday for an hour. Friday off. Pre-parkrun 10-15 as usual but volunteering this week so no parkrun. Club cross-country in the afternoon - long and short courses so about 12 km all up. Wife is over from NZ for the weekend so easy ride on the flat trails for about 80km Sunday and maybe a run of about 15km.

Basically lower volume and intensity for a week or so and see how it goes before building up for another 30km mountain run in early June and a trail marathon near the end of June.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

So am I interpreting correctly that V02 does not track and calculate for a trail run? So I have to select just a regular run to get V02 to start working again? I also assume that I can't edit the activity trail run to a normal run to retroactively get my V02 on those trail runs? Either on the watch or the connect app?

0 carl.andersson over 8 years ago

So am I interpreting correctly that V02 does not track and calculate for a trail run? So I have to select just a regular run to get V02 to start working again? I also assume that I can't edit the activity trail run to a normal run to retroactively get my V02 on those trail runs? Either on the watch or the connect app?

Correct - VO2max is calculated during the activity only and the relevant data isn't saved in the FIT file.
There are good reasons why Garmin disabled VO2max calculations for trail runs. So yes you could just use the standard run activity (and then change it later in Connect to trail if you want to keep trail runs and road runs separate in your history tracking) but the VO2max information you get may be wonky.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Correct - VO2max is calculated during the activity only and the relevant data isn't saved in the FIT file.
There are good reasons why Garmin disabled VO2max calculations for trail runs. So yes you could just use the standard run activity (and then change it later in Connect to trail if you want to keep trail runs and road runs separate in your history tracking) but the VO2max information you get may be wonky.

TY! I was about to send the F5 back and go back to my 235HR

0 meste7 over 8 years ago

Out of interest, what would you normally do in the days after a 7 hour run?

Furthest I have gone is 50K in a bit under 5 hours (including a few stops) and the next day I "ran" for a few miles but unsurprisingly it wasn't pretty...

The next day I did just walk and drive back home, but following day some low intensity recovery spin and swim. Today I will do something similar I guess, so stay quiet for a while :-)