#Garmin Coach

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L'application Garmin Coach se met à jour !

Garmin procède à la mise à jour de son application Garmin Coach, mais également de ses montres connectées epix (Gen 2), fēnix 7, Forerunner, vívoactive 5 et la série Venu 3 ainsi que des compteurs GPS Edge 540, Edge 840 et Edge 1040. Avec la nouvelle version de Garmin Coach téléchargeable aujourd’hui, les cyclistes auront désormais accès à des programmes d’entraînement spécifiques, via Garmin…

[runveganwankerrun]

Wed 30th Nov '22

For someone who says the numbers on the scales aren't the be all and end all, I'm pretty fucking obsessed with the numbers on the scales! This morning I got my lowest number since I started blogging on 12 Sept, when I was 172.4lb. Today I was 162.6lb. That's decent! I'm happy. Getting close to a stone off.

It was my club 800s interval session at the track tonight. Damn, that was tough. Twice round the track is soul sucking. Hard enough to go round once, while you're fresh, but it's hell to know you've got another lap to do. (Imagine doing a track 10,000m! That'stwebty-five fucking laps!) On top of that Coach wanted me to do 4 mins 40 secs per interval. I wasn't sure I could attain that, but thought I could give it a decent shot. However. As my bad planning would have it, it looked like my Garmin was out of charge, so it was a no no for tonight. Well damn! My Samsung is no good as a running watch except for basics. It's definately no good for intervals. It was my only option, and just marginally better than nothing. It turns out, the Garmin might have had enough charge, it was just that the battery indictor showed as empty. When I plugged the watch in to charge, it was saying 47%. I might have to send it away to be looked at. The long and the short of it is, I have no proper stats to give Coach in my run report.

The session was a good news, bad news situation. Good news, I ran the session, I ran faster than if I was on a full on run, and I managed to do four reps in the twenty-five minutes. Recovery was full standing recovery, no jogging or walking it out, standing still for half the time it took to do the 800m. Bad news is, as inaccurate as my timing was tonight, I reckon it took me five mins or a litttle longer to complete each rep. Well short of what Coach wanted. So i pass because I ran the intervals, I get an epic fail on pace. Blah! I went, I ran. I'm happy with that.

Food was good today. Porridge bars for breakfast, raw stuff for lunch, veg soup after club. I snacked on tinned lentils sprinkled with nutritional yeast before club. Hey! Don't knock it till you've tried it. It gives me the savoury hit that I want and staves off hunger before running, without being too heavy.

All in all, a good day. And marcothon starts tomorrow. I'll explain that then. Ah, a cliffhanger! Mwah ha haaa!

[exitrowiron]

Return to Running

Although running is my favorite athletic activity, I haven't done it regularly since I started training for my cross country ride in 2022. Then I tore my meniscus and needed surgical repair and started training for my cross Pyrenees ride which I completed a few weeks ago.

Now all of that is behind me and I am enjoying a pain-free return to running and hopefully soon, racing. My time away from running and increasing age have eroded my VO2 max, but I'm optimistic it will improve over time.

I'm using the Garmin coach to train for the Seattle half although it is tempting to ramp up my mileage more quickly than the AI suggests.

I know I'm in the minority, but I enjoy running on the treadmill. It is convenient, temperature controlled and I have access to entertainment. And I can strictly match my pace to the designated workout.

[hoe4sports]

Leave it all on the field

Ruesha Littlejohn x reader

A/n: No trigger warnings detected.

Ruesha had camped in you apartment for the rest of camp, and you didn’t usually mind but it was getting very depressing. Since she saw the picture of Katie and Caitlin a few days ago, she had turned into a shadow of her old self. She was not her usually bubbly self, and you were trying everything in you power to brighten her mood. You had told jokes, danced or jugged, sang and made food. When you woke up the last morning of camp before you headed to Australia, The land of Caitlin Foord, you decided that you needed to do something to try and bring the old Ruesha back. “Okay pretty girl” you said as you opened the blinds while she was still sleeping. “Today is the day” you said and she huffed from under the cover. It was not your dream scenario to live with her, sleep next to her and spend ever awake moment of your life next to her as her bestfriend, but life has a funny way of making things play out just as it wasn’t supposed too.

Ruesha threw her pillow at you, and you decided to change my tactics. If there was one thing she loved, then it was a good breakfast. You made sure to leave her alone in her, or rather your, depression room as you whipped up easy breakfast. Toast, eggs, paprika and watermelon. You made sure to make her favourite kind of blueberry tea, and then you went back into the bedroom. This time, you felt more determined . She was going to get up. You grabbed her covers by the corner, and yanked it off of her. “Shite, Y/N, won’t you leave a mournin to woman rest now will ya” she hissed. “Yes, I would. But you are not a mourning woman nor do you need to rest anymore. If you rest anymore then I’m worried that you will become one with mi bed.” she sighted loudly and tossed around. You walked around the bed and hunched down on her level. “Ruesh, I’ve made breakfast. Your favourite kind, I’ve even made tea. You would never let a good tea go to waste now would yah?” You said as you stroke her matted blonde hair, she sniffled as she sat up. “Okay, but only because I don’t like to let a pretty woman down.” she said as she marched to the kitchen. In your house, from your bed, in your clothes. Yet somehow, all she could talk about was Katie McAss.

You sat down next to her as a you bottomed a sugar free red bull while eating a protein yogurt. “Are yah ever gonna learn to eat real foods?” Ruesha teased, and you shrugged. “Why would I? Nobody is seeing what am shoving down my throat when I’m alone.” You said and winked. She just shook her head as she devoured the breakfast. You examined your garmin watch for a hot second only to realise that you were running late. You threw on your jersey, and Ruesha threw on hers as we panicked our way to the arena. “Jesus, if yah would’ve gotten that pretty butt up from bed the first 23 times I asked, then Maybe we wouldnt have this issue.” You said as you tied your cleats next to her. She laughed, but was quickly taken back by the view of Katie. Her now ex girlfriend.

“Ruesha, stop droolin’ would you, it’s not a good look” You teased as we walked out on the field. The coach shot you a weird look, which had you confused. “Is there a reason for your shenanigans now?” she asked as she raised her brow. You and ruesha would often do dumb stuff to lift the spirits of the group, but this time you were confused. You shot her an even more confused look, as she pointed to the number on my jersey. “Is this yet another joke about mi number?” You asked as the girls earlier had teased you for your high number, asking if it was your number or the amounts of yellow cards you had attained . You looked at Ruesha confused, and realised that she was wearing your number 30. You looked down to see that you were wearing her number 8. “Well, I suppose yah there is only one thing left to do.” You stated as you got into a weird stance with my phone in my pocket. It was already connected to the team speaker as i was the designated DJ. You then slapped on some “Tell me ma” and did a classic Ruesha jig across the circle the team was standing in. Everyone knew Ruesha was famous for her jig, so naturally that was the easiest way to resemble her.

Everyone including Ruesha was laughing hysterically, almost practically crying. Well, everyone excluding McCabe. She looked furious, but you gave no flying fuck as you went towards her and jigged around her in a circle as she tried to stumble you. “ yah have to work harder then that” you sang as you skipped over her legs. You then giggled your way over to Ruesha as you pulled her jersey of yourself mid jig, showcasing your visibly toned arms and six pack. You did a last high kick and spun around going out in an extravagant pose as you held the jersey out to Ruesha. She was now hysterically laughing and her eyes were watering, some of the girls were even laying on the ground laughing. “Alright alright, miss comedian over there, let’s practice now shall we.” The coach said as she too dried off her eyes after your little show.

“Yah mad woman” Ruesha stated as she was still trying to compose herself. You waited for your jersey but it became clear as day that you weren’t going to get it anytime soon. “I know you love a good view, Ruesh.” You smirked. Instead you warmed up without the jersey as we ran across the field and did our static stretching. Eventually, you put her shirt back on as it was boiling and you didn’t feel too excited to be burned by the sun. You caught Ruesha looking on more than one occasion, and honestly you didn’t mind.

As warm up was getting close to being over you could see Ruesha visibly struggling with her focus as she kept losing the ball. You went over to her as she whacked the ball in the ground. “Aye, ruesh, what did that poor ball do to you?” You exclaimed as you catched the ball before it bounced away to never land. “I can’t focus, I keep thinking about things I shouldnt think about, and then I drop it.” She complained as you listened carefully. “Alright” you said, “let’s try to use this to your advantage. Use all that negative energy to work your hardest. Use it to proving why you are going to be the one on the starting roster.” You said as you dropped the ball down and kicked it up high to her. “Leave it all on the field, love”. She nodded and catched the ball as she started tricking it.

“Yeees, Ruesh!!!” You cheered as she kept tapping the ball showing her incredible ability to control the ball like no other. As she dropped the ball, you nudged her. “You are totally gonna get your spot in the roster. Believe me babe.” You winked as you continued practicing.

[faithhopeloveandtherapy]

The emergency 1yo placement went home to his carers yesterday. He was a delight but I’m very happy to have my child free life back for a while. The first few days of having him, I was not really feeling it, but by day four I was back in the swing of baby life and I’d figured out which groups we could go to to keep ourselves entertained. I took him swimming on Friday which was fun.

Saturday afternoon, H and I and four friends went out for bottomless brunch. We had such fun, drank far too much prosecco and cocktails. I am officially the biggest lightweight of us all, as we all drank the same number of rounds of drinks, yet everyone else was far more functional than me by the end. I came home and fell asleep on the sofa for four hours. Then I had horrible alcohol-induced vertigo a few hours later when I went to bed. And all day today I have not felt at my best and the thought of any more alcohol makes me feel ill. I had such a fun time but I’m not sure it’s really worth it to wipe out my entire weekend! Perhaps I should have just stopped a few Proseccos earlier.

Despite the bleary head, I took myself out for a 6 mile run at lunchtime. My half marathon training has officially started. I’m using a Garmin coach plan and I’m in week 2 now. When I got home I did some yoga for my back. We ate loads of carbs and not a lot else yesterday - bottomless brunch is only bottomless on the drinks, and there never seems quite enough food to soak it all up - so today I decided we need to eat something more balanced and nutritious. I roasted up a mountain of vegetables (carrots, peppers, mushrooms, kale and spinach) and mixed them with couscous and topped it all with a tahini dressing. Such a rainbow feast. I’ve eaten two enormous bowls and feel very satisfied. Hopefully I’ll wake up tomorrow morning with a clear head and fresh motivation ready for the week.

[robinruns]

I think I'm gonna invest in a theragun. Garmin ran that "challenge" this month where if you complete it, you get a coupon for 30% off. It's a pretty good deal since they tend to be expensive, but it beats never actually foam rolling. I asked my running coach her opinion on it today and she was like "omg yes I love mine!!" Which is a good endorsement. I just have to do it.

[womansfilm]

We need more older lesbian representation in the garmin watch 5k training plan coach options

[liesmyth]

OH I love talking about running plans! @halosudne you've Unlocked a Special Interest, I'm afraid.

Current schedule

My current base building schedule is very chill. Mostly easy pace, not many workouts, fully allowing myself to take as many walking breaks as needed. I try to run 5 times a week, though I don't stress if I have to make it 4. My long runs went from 40% of total weekly mileage (back when I was doing, like, 15k to 20k a week) to 30% now that I’m running more.

For example, this week it’s like:

DAY 1 — 7 km easy run (If I can’t sing along to my playlist I’m going too fast) DAY 2 — Workout. 10 min @ tempo pace, 6 km total (1.5 km warmup, 10 min @ tempo pace, easy pace cooldown) DAY 3 — 9 km easy run  (If I can’t sing along to my playlist I’m going too fast) DAY 4 — 6 km easy, including strides (5K easy pace followed by 6x100m strides — short bursts of accelerations until you’re nearly out of breath, hold that pace, gradually slow down. Jog or walk until your breath is even, repeat. Cooldown jog at the end) DAY 5 — Long run, 13 km (Start @ recovery pace; I go by heartrate and vibes. Then gradually increase pace through the run, end up at a slightly faster than easy pace. Just a bit winded.)

This all adds up to 41 / 42 km. Next week I’m aiming for 46-ish, the week after 48 to 50, and then I should be plan ready.

My upcoming plan

I’m base building for the Pete Pfitzinger HM plan level 1. I’ve already done a few of his plans, including the HM level 2 plan, but I would NOT recommend them because they’re so mileage-heavy and pretty tough. Just the level 1 half marathon plan starts at 50 km/week, and peaks at 76 km (31 mpw to 47 mpw, if you believe in freedom). It can be a lot!

However, I DO recommend reading his book if you are interested in the science behind running training plans, because he really lays it out in a very accessible way, and explains the rationale behind his training plans and how to tweak them for any necessities. He also has base training plans that really worked for me.

I have a spreadsheet and everything from the last time I did one of his plans, lol, and my schedule will look a bit like this. As I said... it can be A LOT.

Various plan recs

If you like something lower volume, I recommend the Hal Higdon plans! They’re staples for a reason. Once again, though, I recommend 1) reading the book if you can swing it OR 2) look for information about the plans (r/running is a treasure trove for that!) just so you’re familiar enough with the logic behind the programming to be able to change whatever you need if you miss a few runs or have to scale it down or up.

BAA (the Boston Athletic Association) have a wealth of training plans free on their website.

Also, I trained for my first race ever following the “Garmin Coach” adaptive plan on my Garmin smartwatch – I know this is a long shot BUT if you happen to own a Garmin I really recommend the adaptive plans if you’re struggling to build mileage. The programming changes week by week depending on how you’re proceeding and it’s a neat feature

Time goals etc

I have no idea what kind of time to aim for for my HM, mostly because I really haven’t run seriously for a while so I have no idea what my running fitness baseline is right now. Next week I’m doing a lactate threshold field test to help me figure out where I’m at. I like to do all my easy runs and recovery runs based on heart rate AND my workouts based on goal speed, so that’s a cool data point to have! 

How it works: it’s a time trial run — 20 minutes warmup, then 30 minutes ALL OUT EFFORT RUN. No goal pace, just run at max sustainable effort for those 30 minutes, then cool down for as long as you need. 

It’s a low-tech, no-throwing-up needed alternative to any “max HR” kinda field test, and it’s useful (TO ME) to determine what effort / intensity / time goal I can expect to aim for during my next training cycle. I’ll report back on how that goes :D

(Here’s a more detailed guide, just ignore the part about how you need a chest strap because I respectfully disagree). 

[stepxstepxstep]

Wiping the slate of December, since I forgot to post about anything I ran, if I in fact ran at all. (Not much tbh.)

Decided to go for a Garmin coach plan, and after a tiny benchmark run a few days ago, really started today:

I went with Coach Galloway because sure why not.

A ten minute warm-up jog, half a mile of run/walk (90/30 seconds), then a ten minute cooldown jog:

The goal is to run a whole 5k at a decent pace, so we'll see how that goes — and if I stick with the plan as winter settles in... ❄️

[anmolsmsblog]

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[falcorskeeper-blog]

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[runveganwankerrun]

Wed 7th Dec "22

Conspicuous by my absence yesterday. I didn't run, therefore my Marcothon is over. I went for a walk after tea with TGG instead. Walking doesn't cut it in Marcothon. The point is to run at least twenty-five minutes EVERY day in December. I just couldn't make myself do it yesterday. Sometimes I just want to go for a walk with my man and hold hands.

Other than that, it was an okay day. The batteries on my scales have died, so I MUST remember to get some tomorrow. I have to weigh myself again after the Monday figure pissed me off.

I was up at 5.30am an was out the door for a 6.5k run by 5.50am this morning. It was okay. At three of four k, I was asking myself yet again if the twelve k run at the weekend will be possible. So much for the confidence gained by completing that very distance on Sunday, not to mention the great hill session only on Monday night. I can of course do twelve kilometres again.

I got home from work to find a Mancherter marathon training tee shirt had arrived. I won't be able to wear it to club for a while if I'm still intent on keeping schtum about the training, but it was nice to see it.

I was sort of outed on FB, re Manchester though by a comment Coach made under one of my posts and Sonic is now convinced I'm training for a marathon. Of course, she's right, but I'm still not going to tell anyone, not even my family, yet. She asked me about it and I fudged my answers and didn't answer directly. She just said she'd be interested to see my longer runs in future. Fucking hate that. I don't want her checking out my longer runs. I wouldn't have minded if it had happened naturally, but it's come up through a slip of the tongue, and now she'll be looking out for it. I'm considering making my Strava private. And my Garmin connect. I envisage a certain amount of smugness when it turns out she was right. Ah well, can't be helped. And it's my issue. It's not her fault she's right and I don't want her to be.

I started knitting a jumper this evening. How middle aged! It will keep me occupied and stop me eating rubbish after dinner, so I dont care if it makes me seem like a granny.

[exitrowiron]

Riding two abreast on a road with traffic is the bicycling equivalent of reclining your seat in coach on an airplane. It isn't (usually) illegal, but it is inconsiderate. In the case of biking however, you aren't just irritating another passenger, you're irritating the driver of 2-4,000 lb hunk of 50 mph metal.

During my cross country ride several bikers insisted on riding two abreast or solo in the middle of the lane. A few riders had the Garmin rear radar and would ride two abreast until the car got close and then move to the right. I refused to ride with them because in each case the driver became irritated or anxious or both. In my experience irritated, anxious people lose self awareness and make poor decisions - a bad combo when driving the giant pick up trucks which are common where I live. If you haven't noticed this kind of behavior, I encourage you to spend a few hours at an airport.

The roads near me are all chip-sealed which creates dangerous conditions on the narrow shoulders. The best riding surface is where the cars' right wheel travels the lane. I split the difference by riding the paint.

(Ignore the timestamp, this is Saturday's ride.)

[dimensionsvelo]

L'application Garmin Coach se met à jour !

Garmin procède à la mise à jour de son application Garmin Coach, mais également de ses montres connectées epix (Gen 2), fēnix 7, Forerunner, vívoactive 5 et la série Venu 3 ainsi que des compteurs GPS Edge 540, Edge 840 et Edge 1040. Read the full article

[outdoorovernights]

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[robinruns]

It's such a small thing, but when I was driving home from work I had to stop off to pick up my prescriptions. I couldn't be bothered to connect my phone, but the radio did not disappoint. On one channel I got Joywave, the next had Hozier, then Cage the Elephant, then AFI. Like this is essentially what my spotify would have provided anyway, so this is very convienent.

Also I got my crown this morning. The temporary was so rough, but this one is so smooth, it almost feels weird lol I'm also glad that the sensitivity seems to be mostly gone now.

I felt like my run this morning wasn't good, but once I got the data uploaded, my coach pointed out that I negative split AND my heartrate was good throughout. This alone is why I need a coach, to provide the context to me that I miss because I'm hung up on "my legs felt tired and therefore this was Bad." Which reminds me, I can't remember if I have scheduled my pre-race call with my coach. I also need to come to that call with an A goal, a B goal, and a C goal. The A goal is like how do I wanna perform with every single part of the race being a best case scenario (weather, fueling, rest, etc). B is like what if things aren't perfect, but not awful. C is like... not "just finish" but like a step above that because I know I can complete the distance unless I suffer an injury on the course (but I finished my half marathon while my knee was trying to quit on me soooooo I don't think that would be a problem). I know I want to finish under 1 hour 20 minutes. I think that will be my B goal because it's a safe goal. My like big, pie in the sky, but I know I'm not there yet, goal is under an hour again. I'll get there, but probably not until next year. I'm not even gonna set that as my A goal, it's just not worth it.

I may actually get to meet (jfc why did I type meat lol) my coach in person either at the expo before the race or at the race. She's gonna do the marathon, so she's gonna be starting before me, but I'd love to get there early and cheer her on, or hang out until the end and cheer her across the finish line. I think it will depend how cold it is that morning lol

I should also probably dig into my garmin data and confirm how much mileage I have on my shoes. Like I've said before, I know I'm almost due for new ones, but like how due? Ya know?

This post really ended up being mostly about running huh? I wasn't really expecting that, but that's ok. I guess I have a lot of running related thoughts at the moment.