Daily Suggested Workout progress level lost/reset last week after 18 months of use

I have been using daily suggested workouts for more than 18 months. The interval and long runs have been progressing forward. Long runs to over 2 hours. The base run progressed to 38-40 minutes.

Last week the suggested workouts REDUCED to:

- a base run of 30 minutes [previously 38-40 mins]

- a long run of 33 minutes [previously around 2 hours]

- a recover run of 26 minutes [previously 30 minutes]

- an anaerobic run of 42 minutes (5 x 1min @3.45min/km) [previously 55-70 minutes]

I'm guessing it has lost my progress and reset to beginning levels.

I was finding the pace of progress quite effective. Taking into account sleep/stress/workouts etc. I'm finding this very frustrating, as I'm now back to programming my own sessions.

Has anyone else experienced this? Even more interesting, for me, is there a way to restore this to my previous levels, or at least close to them?

Garmin Forerunner 945LTE

Software Version 7.11

0 TheRoman over 2 years ago

0 RockBastard over 2 years ago

YES, same thing here. E.g., my long runs before last Friday were around 75-90 minutes and base runs around 45 min.

- now base runs are 34 min and long runs around 70 mins and insted of a recovery run the suggestion is a rest day!

0 TheRoman over 2 years ago in reply to RockBastard

Now that you mention it. I have been getting suggestions that "you have been working hard... have a rest day tomorrow" after light base runs where my recovery time is under 20 hours and my training readiness is moderate to high. It then changes the schedule to have a rest day tomorrow (this happened for my run today).

0 TheRoman over 2 years ago

Looking a bit deeper. I noticed all the elements of the training readiness are high resulting in a score of 80. This is classified as high readiness. Except ACUTE LOAD. Which results in a recommendation of rest even though the training readiness is high.

Looking into acute load I noticed that the OPTIMAL RANGE fell off a cliff last week. Why this has changed is what I would like to know, and have rectified?

Training load is based on EPOC (excess post exercise consumption). I doubt this would have actually changed, and therefore, there is no real world reason for this.

Garmin, please assist in correcting this.

0 TheRoman over 1 year ago

If you ignore the Suggested Workouts for about 3 weeks it seems to re-calibrate itself. I really hope this doesn't happen again. I expect better from a product like this, or at least a response to the issue.