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Feature Idea: Option to reset VO2 MAX

Hi Garmin,

I am one of the runners affected by a behaviour of the VO2 MAX algorithm which took very old VO2 MAX readings as a baseline to adjust from. Thus it takes months (!!) to get the VO2 MAX up or down to the actual value which makes the watch's metrics unusable in the meantime (and very discouraging. It's constantly telling me that I train wrong because my VO2 MAX keeps decreasing).
There are many more cases in which such a problem could occur: You just got covid and have to work your way up again. Or maybe your initial measurement was wrong because you were sick during those workouts.

Thus it would be extremely helpful if there was a button to reset the VO2 MAX and force it to recalculate like it does when you have a completely new watch, without having to completely reset the watch or even create a new account (because obviously, then you'd lose all your history of everything and also your HRV baseline would be off).