I dont know how this thing can be so off, i don't even look at it anymore because its off by at least a minute in the 5k alone and 3 minutes from my 10k. I only bring it up because a friend of mine had layoff and was tripping about how much his vo2max dropped on his garmin. I couldn't help but scratch my head about it.
I've found that it gains accuracy with long hard tempos or race pace efforts, but that it will actually decrease my vo2max even if my interval and rep work improves unless I do one continuous hard effort every week or two. So yes its worthless.
Maybe you are using it wrong. Why are you so quick to blame others instead of yourself?
At what point was OP blaming anyone of anything?
Mine was actually pretty close on my 5k and 10k times (within 15 second on my 5K).... However, I definitely do not think I could have run the half marathon or marathon times it predicted.
I noticed mine is super optimistic, but I didnt set the HR ranges properly
Have reset and will revisit. Right now it says I can do an 18 flat 5k though [almost 3 minutes under my PR, lmao]
still, I like looking at that number.
To be specific: the HR that it thinks is my maximum is [7] beats too high. Makes a huge diff
Observer of stuff wrote:
At what point was OP blaming anyone of anything?
It is in the title of the thread. Did you not read it?
Another reading comprehension failure. it's a question, not an attack (blame)on anyone. OP did not say "garmin race predictor is a joke to anyone who believes it to be true". OP asked a question about his opinion. Still not "blaming" anyone try again.
And yeah i do think the race predictor can be a little too generous at times. I too rarely look at it and often forget about that feature.
I find it very accurate. Mine predicted a 12:08 5000 meter time, which was also close to my Strava estimated 12:15 5000 meter time. Based on these results, Nike gave me a sponsorship along with a WR bonus, and I promptly retired to run a goat farm.
I fund the race predictor and VO2 max predictor to be in the ballpark. The problem I have with it is that it only works when I run on roads. I do a lot of my running on trails and these runs are 1-2 min slower per mile. So when I do lots of trail running my race time predictions go way up, and my V02 max prediction goes way down.
I've had it err both ways. Most comical is on the few occasions when I've reset it, then run a race as the next run. In those cases, it then predicts a race result SLOWER than the race I've just run. Can't figure that one out.
poodling wrote:
Observer of stuff wrote:At what point was OP blaming anyone of anything?
It is in the title of the thread. Did you not read it?
Not very smart, are you?