Experience with daily suggestions for marathon training?

Hi,

I've been using the daily suggestions with no goal in mind for the last couple of months and so far so good. I added an event to my calendar (a marathon on June 2023) and I noticed that the daily suggestions were automatically adapted to the event and the plan even has different phases now. Does anybody have any experience using the daily suggestions for marathon training? If so, would you mind sharing your experience? Can I trust that at the appropriate times, it will recommend long runs (for example, 2H30 base sessions)?

  • Yeah, it didn't give me any hill work which would have been very helpful. I did throw my own hill work in further down the line as I realised it wasn't getting me to do any but it turns out it wasn't enough. Slight smile

  • I just changed the target metric from Pace to HR and did many workouts on steep hills/trails

  • Which watch did you have? I still have the fenix 6 and while it gives me suggested workouts and I have my (first ever) marathon input on my calendar I can’t see my suggested workouts ahead of time. I also can’t send the race to my watch, it says it’s not compatible. Can i trust that my daily workouts are going to prep me appropriately for this? So far the first two weeks it’s been pretty consistently base runs of 33 minutes. Hoping I don’t need to upgrade to a newer watch just yet 

  • The F6 does not have any of those capabilities unfortunately and will not prep you specifically for a race

  • I used an epix Gen 2. May I ask when is your marathon? Because I believe that the DSW start to take into account a marathon 6 months before the event. It is also supposed to factor in your training history. Just to provided a little more context, I used the watch to train for my first marathon after 8 years after my last one. In the period in between, I used to run consistently twice a week, that's it. Now that being said, I remember that at the beginning of my training it consistently recommended 47-53 minutes "base runs", anything in the 30-36 minutes range was called a "recovery run" by the watch. 

  • It’s in mid-November. It used to recommend a lot of longer base runs alternating days, now it’s more every day 33 minutes. I also do a good bit of cross training - skating, riding peloton etc that I don’t know that it factors in 

  • So yes, by now it should be recommending workouts for the marathon, but according to one of the replies to your post, the F6 does not adapt the DSW... are you doing the cross training in addition or instead of your running? If it's in addition, maybe the watch is detecting the additional stress on your body and hence recommending easier runs.