Anyone feel Training Status is wonky lately since 20.86 / 21.00 onwards?

For the last 6 weeks or so I seem to be in a cycle of recovery / maintaining - no sign of Unproductive or Peaking.

The run below was an extremely tough 16 mile run on Saturday 21st May on a technical trail - yet despite it being very hard as the stats below show, the Training Status remained on Maintaining. That run I feel should have been Unproductive.

This is how the last 4 weeks looked

I am on alpha 21.71 now and have just done a hard session on my Wahoo Kickr and that one was rated as Recovery which again feels wrong. MaxHR is definately correct and hasn't changed, so I am ruling out MaxHR getting changed somehow in a recent update.

Just me?

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5135968 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil +1

I disagree this should be shuffled of to 21.71 as the Connect Screenshot shows this has been going on for 4 weeks but 21.71 has been only out 2 days! This spans production software mostly.

If no one else…

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0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago

5135968 said:
I am on alpha 21.71 now

The correct thing to do is to post this as a bug report or for community discussion in the 21.71a forum in the Beta Program. There, you should find a community of people who have 21.71a loaded.

0 5135968 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

I disagree this should be shuffled of to 21.71 as the Connect Screenshot shows this has been going on for 4 weeks but 21.71 has been only out 2 days! This spans production software mostly.

If no one else is seeing this, then Occum's Razor says its unlikely to be a bug so no point wasting Garmin's time on it IMHO.

0 2465814 over 3 years ago

Same here, always has shown training load as low

0 mcalista over 3 years ago

There is no inherent reason why a tough run should be rated as unproductive.

As for maxHR, change it in Garmin Connect to something else and sync, then change it back and sync again, just to be sure.

0 5135968 over 3 years ago in reply to mcalista

Well I disagree.

I ran like crap with an HR far higher than normal - slow pace / high HR is the posterboy for an Unproductive rating.

A training load of 323 should not be maintaining for me either, otherwise that would mean a typical week would be 2100+ per week just to keep things on an even keel. I'm not that fit sadly!

0 5135968 over 3 years ago

This is still ongoing

Yesterday (Saturday 28th) I did a 5k parkrun and noticed even though it was a reasonable effort, watch Training Status stuck on recovery (screenshots post-run, but pre-sync as my phone was at home)

In GC

Have been stuck in maintaining / recovery for ages even though I don't feel I am doing 'recovery' type activities.