The last five months I have been following the recommended workouts quite consistently. I have become a big fan of this feature, and feel I am really improving. I also always take a close look at the recovery time after each training.
Two days ago the workout was a VO2 max training. The recovery time was surprisingly high: 3 days! Yesterday, the recommended workout was indeed to take a rest day. But today the recommendation was a 1 hour base run, even though I had still 30 hours recovery time! My personal feeling was more in line with the recommendation, I felt I was ready for a run.
According to daily-suggested-workouts:
"Depending on the capabilities of your Garmin device, some or all of the following factors will be considered when generating your suggested workout: current training load, load focus, recovery time, sleep data and the profile of recently performed workouts."
My experience seems to imply that the Forerunner 245 is one of the devices that does not consider recovery time. Can anyone confirm that?
I have to say, usually the recommendations fit well to to the recovery times. But usually my recovery times are at most 24 hours or so anyway, so hard to take a conclusion from that. I remember though that when I just started following the recommendations, there were a few occasions where it was the other way around: Recovery time was already 0 hours, but the recommendation was to take a rest day or to do a recovery run. At that time I gave my watch the benefit of the doubt, as I figured that my watch had not much data yet.
Anybody else has seen discrepancies between recommended workouts and recovery times with this watch?
