in short: Garmin plans on watch and app disagree, how to fix? Tangentially: how to keep better records of the plan and its workout details?
I've found a lot of confusing Garmin Coach plan behavior in the past where the next week/10 days of workout fluctuates rapidly and without explanation or breadcrumb (ie: nothing like a "you had a 'base' today but we updated to 'threshold' in order to..."; even without explaining reasoning: just some evidence that I'm not imagining it would be a lot less disorienting of a UX).
However now I'm seeing a more serious issue where suddenly my watch and my app are outright disagreeing with each other. It's in the screenshots I'll attach but basically:
- Watch believes I'm at day one of a "peak" phase
- App believes it's still multiple more weeks before I'll enter "peak" phase.
This apps' current view is what I've been seeing since I started the plan over a month ago, and the watch has never disagreed with it. Today is the first time I've seen something like this.
I tried syncing the watch via the Android app's sync button (top-right if main screen). Any ideas what else I might try to get them reconciled?
And more generally/tangentially: any ideas for keeping better track of the changes to the plan? As a sloppy hack: I've been taking screenshots of the plan every Monday just so I can go back and compare. But ... Seems subpar. Same for activities actually: I'll do a workout and it's difficult to dig up the text-prompts/notes/etc that were attached to the workout once it's been recorded as an activity.
Here's the screenshots I mentioned:
- garmin app's training plan overview, showing I'm in "base" phase for 3 more wekes and then have a few of "build" phase, and THEN will be in "peak" phase:
- garmin app's training plan for just this week, where we can see a "threshold" scheduled for tomorrow (this part is in agreement with the watch, so far..):
- fenix 8 showing i'm at the start of a "peak phase"
- fenix 8 "peak phase" detailed screen: showing I'm on week 0
