This is a bit of a rant about the Training Status tab...
I took one rest day this week in preparation for back to back 10k & 5k races this weekend, and my Garmin instantly marked me down as unproductive after the day's rest. And now, despite smashing both my 10k and 5k recent pbs on consecutive days, it's still saying unproductive.
I was almost a minute per mile faster than my runs over the last few months, and over sustained race distances and the Garmin algorithm seems blind to this. All it apparently sees is that I missed a day this week. The aerobic training effect for yesterday's run was 4.5 with a 'Way to go!', but this hasn't filtered through to the Training Status tab.
Surely it can't be hard to code the algorithm to spot a clear race pattern – with a taper before and then a faster than usual performance – and just let the Training Status take a chill pill and not try to over-react to the rest day.
The last thing I want to see after two good performances is my personal Garmin telling me I'm unproductive. I've just moved the screen to the bottom of the list on my homepage, because it's just not useful – seems a very blunt tool.