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Should you split different types of running into separate activities or keep it as one?

Parker
over 4 years ago

This question might sound a little confusing, but what I mean by it is this. What is the best way to help Garmin understand the effort and types of runs I am doing so that it better reflects my training. For example, lets say I do a half mile warm up, stretch, followed by a 5 mile run and then 5 x 100m strides after that. Should I have it set up so that all of those activities are grouped into one event, or should I have three separate running events for all three. I know Garmin can allow you to set up warm up's and cool down's by hitting the lap button during a scheduled workout, but I don't know if Garmin's software is smart enough to see difference in effort placed into the strides and the run or if it would work better as separate running events.Usually when I do strides inside of the running event, for example say I just ran 5 miles, I will just hit the lap button once I begin and end each set until I am done. I recently got a Stryd and when I look at its run it gives you several categories as how to label your activities such as easy run, long run, tempo, warm up and that is what got me thinking about this since to get an accurate measure of your critical power it asks you to preform four different types of running at different intensities. What are your all's thoughts, should the events be split up and labeled accordingly or would it make any difference to have it all as one activity. I can see where this could get annoying on something like Strava by having several activities put up, but it would also be helpful to have individual activities to see effort more accurately reflected since it wouldn't all be averaged for all the events.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    You can make a workout in you calendar without you have to press any butting during the workout. The label in stryd are there for you to tag the run basically how you feel. As for CP, Stryd will take this from a structured workout. If you setup a training in Garmin calendar like "warm up 10 minutes" "8 minutes threshold" "3 minutes recovery" repeat 3 times and "10 minutes cooldown". Stryd will get your CP from the threshold part. Garmin will take from such a training the aerobic and anaerobic part like 2.5 and 2.6. So why split up i might be missing the point here?.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    If you create a workout, each step will be regarded as a lap, and you can analyze each lap separately.

    Alternatively, you could create a custom multisport even, with each phase of the run a separate activity.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Lazybird

    That makes since if I had built a work out in the calendar, and it is good to see that both companies are good at analyzing the data when it is a designed work out, however when I am in season for cross country I often don't know my work out till I arrive for the day so I usually don't have time to build a work out and then send it to my watch. I will show up and select run for the different parts such as one running event for the warm up and one for the work out. Right now I have some freedom in my training plan but I usually don't have the ability to plan my training ahead of time. This works for me because trying to do the warm up then pausing to do dynamics and then resume it for my work out messes up my data screens because I have to filter out in my head the distance and time I spent on the warmup and take that out of the upcoming work out. Right now while I have freedom in my training I wanted to see if it would make a difference in how Garmin views the data if I split the events into different runs or had it all bunched under the same running event.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Parker

    As far as I know, it doesn't make any difference for you training status. I believe that simply looks at the amount of effort, based on heart rate and the time spent in different zones over a period of time. Regardless whether it's one or multiple workouts. I tried both options and found no difference in how Garmin does their calculations. Personally, I find it much easier to just use the lap button in one activity, than having to analyse multiple activities.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Personally I put warmup and cooldown in separate activities and all other sections of a given workout in a single activity. There's no special reason for this, except that:

    - it usually makes the average pace of the workout activity more closely represent the "effort" in strava (depending on whether the rest laps are standing still or jogging)

    - sometimes there's a long-ish gap between the warmup and the meat of the workout, where we're just standing around or stretching, and I don't like to see it in the activity

    Basically when I started logging activities I used to put an entire workouts in one activity, and I just happened to like it better with the warmup/cooldown in separate activities. (Especially for tempo runs.)

    What I do with Strava is set all activities to private by default, and only make the non-warmups/cooldowns public. Given that I usually edit activity name, it's just one extra tap/swipe to make them public. This also means that I can pick and choose which runs, strength workouts, etc. that I want to share with everyone else.