So, I did not dare to update my watch firmware from 18.xx to the actual one (20.26) until last week. The opinions on this forum were the reason for that. At last I hit the update button, and today I had my first long run (28km), using:
- watch fw 20.26,
- Garmin Connect app v5.5,
- Jabra ELite Active 65T bluetooth earbuds,
- Spotify app 8.9.76.538 and
- HR strap Garmin HRM Dual
I have a training plan for Marathon, based on HRzones. I plug in the earbuds, start playing spotify podcast, start the running profile, select the training run for today, select the course I want to run, and hit the tart button. HRM-DUAL is confirmed to be connected, also LiveTrack has started. I do this for many many times in the past! Neveer had a problem with it.
During the run I normally get directions to run, and audio notifications for tempo of last round, average tempo and heartbeat. The poscast is temporaraly paused when a notification is given, and continue when the audio prompt is done. Beautyfull features.
What happened today:
- My heartbeat went wild a few times in the first hour of my run (should be around 140-145, but rises to 170+). My tempo does not explain that.
- I got audio prompts for the directions (used to be only on the watch). I read that is a new feature;
- The audio prompts get stuck in a loop. Like "Soo...soo.soon you...soo...soon." Or "your ave...your aver...you....your ave...". The audio prompt is only the start of a sentence over and over again. The only way to stop that is to kill the spotify app on the phone. So no podcast during my run today :-(
- when I look at the statistics after the run, my training load has dropped quite a bit, although I have run 1.5h in zone 2 and 1h in zone 3 (28km). Unexpected behaviour looking at runs in the past.
I can use your help with explaining this. in 4 weeks I run my marathon, and I am not happy the way my device is acting now. Heck, I do not even know what causes this. Is it Connect app, the firmware of the watch, my HR strap, something changed in BT-codec? Or all?
Here some pics:
HR vs Tempo (flat terrain)
Training load, last bullet is today.