Agreed, this is especially bad for interval workouts, where you're guaranteed to have periods of slow to no movement (unless you pause your watch during rest intervals, which I don't want to do.)

Funnily enough, the Connect mobile app handles…

Disclaimer: I am an interested amateur and there may be mistakes in what I write here.

There are good explanations of the science (by Firstbeat technologies which is used by Garmin) behind these stats: https://www.firstbeat.com/en/science-and-physiology…

BLASBIKE said:

What is working for sure is distances prediction feature for 5k - 42k. The graphs are changing daily. But I dont know how big the correlation is.

Having good race predictions is an excellent sign that your VO2 Max is well estimated and that…

subra said:

Then I don't understand why in your graph above, where you compare the speeds, the light gray line oscillates very strong. With this raw data, an accurate speed can't be reasonably calculated, because it strongly depends on the algorithms used…

5998677 said:

1. I often do the same training route but I can't find any way to overlay instances of running on the same route to compare why one run was better than the other - did I go out too fast in one run? or slow down up a hill? what trends am I…

Thanks for your input.

First of all, it appears that the wording in my initial post has not been clear enough. When I wrote: 

However, for the past 2 months my TL has increased.

I did not mean that it suddenly increased all by itself. What I actually meant…