Critical bug: Load double counting for multisport activities triggers 'Overreaching' training status

Is this bug fixed? A Multisport watch should not ruin the training status with a single Multisport activity.

Adding to this post to hopefully grab some attention to the issue. This bug completely diminished the value of the FR 945 as a multisport watch. I'm hoping for a speedy resolution. Here's a summary of my experience with a custom Bike-Run-Bike multisport activity. It resulted in a daily Training Load of 2,892, a ridiculous outlier that has made it difficult to trust my Training Status ever since.

Sport 1 (Cycling): 137

Transition 1: 144 (7 gained in transition + previous 137)

Sport 2 (Running): 559 (415 gained running + previous 144)

Transition 2: 570 (11 gained in transition + previous 559 )

Sport 3 (Cycling): 732 (162 gained cycling + previous 570)

Overall Multisport activity: 732

Later, I did a separate Walking activity, which registered a training load of 18.

137+144+559+570+732+732+18 = 2,892

Stop whining, knock off the multi-sport activities and work out less and the problem goes away.  Seriously though.  This is a problem and has been for quite awhile.  Garmin, we need a fix!

It's not a critical bug. At most it's an annoyance. I can't understand why Garmin have been unable to sort this out, but it's not stopped me from doing anything or changing my training. I trust my program. The watch is there to record data. Yes I know the watch has its foibles. But I can work around them.

I'm about to start swimrun training which has proved interesting in the past because of this bug. So yes, I do experience it. It is a bugbear (pardon the pun) but it's not critical nor catastrophic.

Have you ALL reported this to Garmin? Are you just whinging here?

CrazyLegs said:

a ridiculous outlier that has made it difficult to trust my Training Status ever since.

These disappear in a couple of weeks, maybe less once your chronic load is recalculated anyhow. 

Hi philipshambrook,

I'm new to these forums and to Garmin in general, so could you give me some guidance on how I can report this to Garmin? 

Thanks for sharing your knowledge about Training Status. I'm reading here that Chronic Load Focus is a 4 week period. 

Plus, in this video, they say that "the device also keeps track of your longer term training load as a baseline, and compares your current training load to this longer term base." It is unclear how long the "longer term training load" is.

I'm just trying to learn how to use my new device. The money I spent on it was not insignificant to me. I'd like to know how to use it properly. For a while, this issue made me think I was doing something wrong in my training, but I've just now learned that it is a bug.

CrazyLegs said:

Chronic Load Focus is a 4 week period. 

It's a rolling 4-week period so it's always looking back 4 weeks. For more information you're probably best placed to get hold of the First Beat papers that you can find on their website https://www.firstbeat.com/en/

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