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Why did Garmin report this as a recovery run instead of BASE?

I did a suggested activity that was meant to be BASE at 7.05 pace - My pace was a fair bit higher at 7.59 however my heart rate was 62% in zone 2, 20% in zone 3 and still said it was recovery?

Here is my activity, hoping more experience garmin users can shed some light on why

connect.garmin.com/.../7236562325

0 johnj08840 over 4 years ago

I am not an expert on "Training Effect" but perhaps it's simply that the duration of this workout is only 28.32 minutes.

0 b_fitnik over 3 years ago

Zone 2 is recovery. The majority of your run was there

support.garmin.com/.../

0 2567932 over 3 years ago in reply to b_fitnik

zone 1 is recovery, zone 2 is base... zone 3 is tempo

0 b_fitnik over 3 years ago in reply to 2567932

Apparently, you didn’t look at the link I included. Garmin considers zone 1 as warmup

0 JB204 over 3 years ago in reply to b_fitnik

If you read the HR definition in the GC app (select Health, Heart Rate, Help, How to Use.., training with Heart Rate Zones) each zone is explained. Zone 2 ( Easy) is good for recovery hence it reporting your run was a recovery run.

I don't know what your VO2 or fast pace is but that is what it'll be basing the pace of 7.05 on. By running at 7.59 you didn't increase your BASE but did contribute to your body's recovery as GC assessed it as low effort.

If it wasn't low effort then your HR zones are incorrect and you need to adjust them.