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Cannot see recovery after activity

hangover
over 4 years ago

I searched through the forums, looks like it is supposed to be under training, but I only Cycle/MTB, I don't run.

After cycling it gives me an estimated recovery, and if I don't sleep well or I have a stressful day it will pop up and say my recovery has been extended, but I cannot find anywhere to check my current time to recovery. Where can I look on the watch/in app/in browser? If I got to "Training Status' I get the following screens...

"Run outdoors with heart rate twice to see your status" (I have a dozen cycling activities, no running)

"Training Status: No Status"

"V02 MAX --"

"7d load" with appropriate information from my cycling activities

"Load Focus" With appropriate information from cycling activities

and that's it. I know it is storing my recovery time somewhere because it pops up after activities/stressful days/little sleep, but I cannot find it.

Semi related, is there any way to make use of the training features for cycling without a power meter? I primarily MTB so a power meter isn't practical

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I always use the watch itself to find my current recovery time:

    Training status widget > Scroll down to the 5th (last) page for recovery time.

    I haven't found a way to view it on the phone app. And if that 5th page isn't showing up in the Training Status widget, I'm not sure why that would be.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to C.sco

    Yeah, that fifth page isn't showing up. I only have the first 4 that I mentioned

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to hangover

    Weird... I don't have a training status currently, either, because I haven't been running outdoors, but I still get the 5th screen showing recovery time (even with my recover time saying "0 hour; fully recovered").

    Hopefully someone else can help, I'm really not sure what's going on

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to C.sco

    I use my Fenix 6 for walking and an Edge 530 for cycling (with the f6 worn passively on my wrist).

    I actually have SIX pages in the Training Status Widget on the watch (nothing in the phone app shows recovery)

    - status (productive)

    - VO2 max

    - 7 day load

    - 4w load focus 

    - Recovery (currently 0 hours)

    - Heat Acclimation

    edit: recovery now shows 5 hours. I thought 0 hours was a bit weird as I rode last night and my Edge was showing 5 hours. Had to do a few syncs on GCM between the two devices and now they line up. Unfortunately data (including Load etc) doesn’t always sync as seamlessly as you would expect.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Tim_B_

    I am almost guessing it may be because I have only logged cycling, never logged running, but it still seems odd as it gives me a recovery time after activities. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Tim_B_
    Tim_B_ said:

    I actually have SIX pages in the Training Status Widget on the watch (nothing in the phone app shows recovery)

    - status (productive)

    - VO2 max

    - 7 day load

    - 4w load focus 

    - Recovery (currently 0 hours)

    - Heat Acclimation

    Ah yes, you are absolutely correct - mine usually shows 6 pages, too, when I have a heat acclimation score. But when I don't have that score, then I only have 5 pages. Currently, it's too cold still to have a heat acclimation score, so that page went away on my watch.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Not sure why, mine is on the 4th page.

    But I will say Garmin have a huge amount of work to do around all their first beat and in-house metrics - its an absolute mess. I guess they initially licensed the stuff to devices which probably seemed lie a good idea at launch, but they didn't think through what would happen if people own more than one device, and so lashed a load of tape around the whole system with things like 'physio true up' to try and get things working as it evolved.

    The reality is a person/body is the centre for all the data, and not devices. All the metrics should sync to the cloud from every device and be shown as a homogenous result.  My Garmin connect still has two training statuses for the edge 830, and the Fenix.  OK they might be synced much of the time, but then things like recovery don't show up there.

    It's probably about time they sorted it all out, from the licensing through to making sure the same data is displayed wherever you look - devices, apps, web version of connect, and stay in sync.  Activities outside of workout plans / coached plans should affect things too - if someone's on a running course and does a few days of 100 mile bike rides, of course that should change the rest and recovery etc. So may things would benefit from a bit of tidying up and making more logical.

    Sorry, that doesn't help the OP at all.