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Week 6 of marathon training. Everything going ok although I get confused by Garmin's training load graph even though I know how it's supposed to work.
Looking at new shoes too but no clue what to get yet...
No ice on the roads anymore so that's a plus too!
I use my Garmin as a fancy stopwatch, I don't find its analytics are particularly useful. My forerunner has literally recorded me running a half marathon in 1h 55m, but it predicts my half marathon time would be 3h 17m?
I find Garmin's data and charts very useful. I've never been an "instinctive" runner: I don't know what I'm capable of, and I don't exactly know how I'm feeling past the basic post-running feeling... strange, I know. So I need to see the data to get a clear picture. Using the device's data has taught me a lot, and has made me connect the dots between my training and my performance. I fully credit my improvement in running (pace, economy, endurance, etc) for the past few years to Garmin's metrics help.
That said, it takes a while getting used to them. Personally, I use the data as a guide, but I never take predictions and such at face value. They can be a bit off, either positive or negative; I've seen both. For example, I think it tends to overvalue long distance training runs for performance prediction.
But I think I'm at a point that I can understand what it's trying to tell me, and find some correlation with how I actually am. I think that's the way to go with Garmin.