Can anyone explain the difference/advantage of adaptive Garmin Coach over daily suggested workouts?
I run at least 5k every day, mostly at recovery pace, through adaptive coach. I'm using auto sensing Lactate Threshold HR based training and a chest strap. I've a marathon and goal time scheduled for late September. I've previously used DSW for successful marathons in the past and it's always accounted for unscheduled runs. I'm finding that this doesn't seem to be the case with Garmin adaptive coach.
A difference I've noticed is that if I don't do the scheduled run, the adaptive program records a rest day, even if I've pushed a hard manual workout threshold session instead. It doesn't seem to account for this in my next days scheduled run. That is, it thinks I did nothing and gives me a run based on that.
For example, 2 days ago I did a hard scheduled 2x19m threshold session. Yesterday, I pushed a hard threshold parkrun with extra miles warmup/cooldown instead of the scheduled short recovery run. Today, I was given a 33mim base run. My event is 7 months away and I'm usually given another recovery run (25mins at 11m30s ish pace) if I've done a recovery run even 30 seconds a mile quicker the day before.
I'm considering ending the adaptive Garmin Coach training and reverting back to daily suggested workouts as it might be more aware. Does anyone have and experience of this or above to get the best out of my training program?