Garmin

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chunkywizard Oct 2020 6:21pm, 8 Oct 2020 10,182 posts	chunkywizard It’s 12 hours to your next hard effort not 12 hours rest. If your heart rate seems ok (ie you are wearing the strap tight enough to get good optical) then it should be pretty good. If you always find the numbers high it suggests you easy runs aren’t easy enough.
SPR Oct 2020 6:26pm, 8 Oct 2020 31,908 posts	SPR It's not even 12 hours to your next hard effort as it says train as normal for anything under about 24 hours for watches that do training status I think it's probably just the time to when HRV will return to a fully tested baseline but you don't need to be at baseline to perform.
SPR Oct 2020 6:30pm, 8 Oct 2020 31,909 posts	SPR It seems the new beta on the 245 changes that though and gives comments on things that have improved recovery eg, "improved by good rest". Don't know whether the bits like easy recommended are still maintained.
Fitz Oct 2020 7:14pm, 8 Oct 2020 2,291 posts	Fitz I think my 620 is dying. Keeps turning itself off when trying to upload training entries by Wi-Fi, will only charge itself to 94% and seems to need recharging far too frequently. Maybe there'll be some bargains on Amazon day next week.
chunkywizard Oct 2020 7:46pm, 8 Oct 2020 10,183 posts	chunkywizard Try giving it a factory reset. That sorts a multitude of sins.
Sigh Oct 2020 8:27pm, 8 Oct 2020 7,491 posts	Sigh I charge mine every 3-4 days, and usually charge it while I'm in the shower, since I don't wear it in the shower anyway!
flanker Oct 2020 12:00am, 9 Oct 2020 19,468 posts	flanker Also worth remembering that the recovery period is cumulative. If you did a hard effort on a Sunday and got "72 hours to recover", and then did an easy run on Monday the recovery period would still be the 48 hours remaining from the Sunday's effort plus any impact from the Monday run. This is why you can do an easy walk to the shop and be told it will take 48+ hours to recover.
Looby Loo Oct 2020 8:38am, 9 Oct 2020 423 posts	Looby Loo Thanks I understand the recovery bit a little more now.
SPR Oct 2020 9:29am, 9 Oct 2020 31,916 posts	SPR Garmin say it's technically not cumulative and it assesses recovery after each exercise* BUT with 24/7 HR monitoring now and adjustment of recovery time during the day I wouldn't expect recovery to drop much if at all from an easy run if you start with 48 hours recovery. What I've personally found is, an easy run the next day doesn't add to recovery needs if I need 20 hr or more (so the recovery hours after the run stay the same. *Presume this was back when you only wore the HR monitor in exercise so it only had date during exercise.
Badger Oct 2020 10:33am, 9 Oct 2020 12,881 posts	Badger Fitz, do you want my old 620? I think it's in better nick than that - tried to give it away a couple of times but it keeps coming back!