Daily Suggested Work outs - Marathon

I had to give up on using the suggested workouts. Put a race in the calendar so the watch knew what was going on. It showed a whole base, build, peak, taper plan; but just like you it never got to any real distance or time.

That's strange. I have half marathons in April, July and August and a full marathon in October (which is my primary race) scheduled on the Garmin Connect app and I'm already having daily suggestions that are 2h30mins on my long run days, base runs between 48mins and 1hr15mins and Sprint interval runs in the 55min range. Sounds like something is screwy with yours. Not sure if it's based somehow on your fitness level (VO2 max or average pace or whatever)? Maybe one of the Garmin folks can chime in...

Thanks for the reply.

For a half I did in October it worked great taking me up to 14 miles.

My vo2 max is 56 and it's saying I should complete it under 3h30 so it's not like I'm a coached potato. 

Feel like I should delete the race and start again as I surely should be running longer with 10 weeks out.

Interestingly my weekly mileage is around 35-40 with the suggested runs which isn't far off what I expect just not that proper long run that I'd expect. 

I had a similar situation last year. So I increase the exercise time on the basis of garmin's suggestion. I ended up getting suggestions for long runs over 2-3 hours. I'm guessing that in addition to physiological conditions and acute loads

Sorry what do you mean? Did you just do more than the watch said?

Haha yes I understand completely. I have a marathon mid-May scheduled, but the run the suggested workout feature gives me on my long run days isn't even the longest of the week!

I gave up as well on this feature, I'd rather follow a structured plan. No specific speedwork suggested and long runs are never enough long for a marathon training. 

I have a marathon as my A race in April and currently it suggests the following:

Monday: 53 min base run

Tuesday: rest day

Wednesday: 1h17 min tempo run

Thursday: 53 min base run

Friday: 1h21 min anaerobic run

Saturday: 1h30 min long run

Sunday: 1h15 min base run

I would never do sprints the day before my long run and also not two tempo sessions in a week. Further, the long run is too short.

I never used the DSW since it really is better to follow a training plan (or alternatively, TrainAsOne maybe)

Mine is not to different to yours. Oddly the weekly milage is what you would expect at this time of a plan for an April marathon but just not the long runs.

It worked fantastic for my half and got me a massive PB but feel like I'm going to switch to a training plan now and go from 10 weeks out. Shame 

I have been following the daily suggested workouts on a daily basis since July 2022, when I received my 955, to train mainly for Marathon races (one completed in November and one coming in approx.. 5 weeks) and a few 10K fun events. I am a slow runner, with a nowadays Marathon time between 3:20 and 3:30 but I still enjoy training on a daily basis for such events (average weekly mileage between 70 and 100km, depending on the training stage). For my first Marathon with the 955, I followed the pace-based suggested workouts and I often had the experience of fast or long workouts disappearing and substituted by "boring" base runs. In the course of the time, I realized that this was happening because the recorded aerobic training effect was higher compared to the value my watch was calculating in advance for the particular suggested run pace (you can see that in advance if you scroll down to the details of the suggested workouts), probably (speculating here) due to higher HR values compared to the expected ones. This could happen for several reasons: headwind, running on hilly courses, switching to lower drop/lower stack/not plated shoes, running while being tired or stressed, etc. For my second Marathon event, I have switched to HR-based recommendations since mid November and things are progressing closer to the weekly plan. I always try to keep the average HR value of the workout segment or the complete run (for "basis" ones) to the proposed value and now I am enjoying several long tempo or threshold workouts and long runs of anticipated duration (up to 3h10min, with a currently estimated Marathon time of 3:25). You can also install as an additional screen the actual aerobic training effect and keep an eye on that while you run, potentially slowing down when you reach close to the target value. Apart from that, I have to admit that I spend quite some effort to keep the rest of the training readiness metrics (and especially HRV, sleep and sleep history) within the healthy range, otherwise the fast workouts are either scaled down or completely removed. Good luck with your Marathon and I hope this helps.