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Exercise load seems to get double counted for the run in a multisport/triathlon activity.

rnaude
over 5 years ago

The Training Status report double counts the Exercise Load for the run within a multisport activity. I've done two triathlons with my FR945 and for both the Training Status report includes an Exercise Load for both the run and for the overall multisport activity, both with exactly the same load number. I also noticed that it includes very high Exercise Load numbers for the short transitions. E.g. for a 1 minute transition I get an Exercise Load of 242 whereas my hour bike ride has a load of 236 - doesn't make any sense.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Garmin have yet to manage to deliver training load for a multisport activity

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    For multi sport activities it looks like the load of each activity includes the load of all previous activities.

    The total load should only be the multi sport activity and not the multi sport activity plus each individual activity. I hope this gets fixed soon!

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I have the same load double counting problem with multi-sport activities on my 945.

    This is a critical bug because the double counting triggers an 'Overreaching' training status, and mistakenly prompts the user to reduce their training load.

    Software version: 2.70 (0b33fae)

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jome90

    jome90 -- you're exactly right, it's a cumulative sum of each of the phases of a multisport activity. The more activities in the multisport, the more anamolous the training load calculation will be. It's really a terrible bug. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Hello,

    I had the same issue, until my last swimrun. Now there is virtually no load recorded in the training load, but each individual activity has a separate load. (With some strange, very high loads for short periods of transitioning and running.) For some reason these aren’t added up and included in the training load. So there has been a change, however I’m uncertain whether it’s an improvement...

    Software version 4.40 (f6dbc2c)

    Best regards,

    David

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Same issue two years later. Any solution by now?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 4836305

    They seem to have solved the problem you're talking about.  Looking at a recent sprint triathlon, exercise load accumulated over the legs, but was not double-counted.  That is, Swim=Swim; T1=(Swim+T2); Bike=(Swim+T1+Bike); etc.  Looking at "Exercise Load" for the event, it shows as "17.4 mi activity" -- which seems about right -- and shows the same total as the separate "Run."  Looking at the bar graph, it corresponds to the stated exercise load.

    Are the numbers right?  Probably not.  My watch says my exercise load for Swim=79, and for Swim+T1=120.  I'm pretty confident the load wasn't 41 just for T1.  By way of comparison, T2 was 3.

    For kicks, I checked a sprint tri from 4 weeks earlier -- which had a longer T1 --  and saw a similar pattern, but not quite as extreme: Swim=78, Swim+T1=97, and T2=7.  (Also interesting to note that the totals for the whole race differed by just 1 point.)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Mrose
    Mrose said:
    I'm pretty confident the load wasn't 41 just for T1. 

    I'd believe it. Getting out of a wetsuit while running can be a whole sport in itself. Laughing

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 4836305

    Same here. Happened in two triathlons the past month. Massive Loads for each (1500+) throwing off Training Effect for subsequent weeks

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Yeah, my wife had a tri just last weekend, and it did this same thing.  Pretty amazing Garmin hasn't fixed this yet.