Having a Cold with Garmin and Apple

Yesterday I woke up feeling tired and both Garmin and Apple said that I neded to rest. What I thought were allergies turned out to be a one day cold, I hope. According to the Apple Watch my HRV crashed down and in the evening I definitely had a cold/flu dream.

My dream, paradoxically, was sorting through a list of photos via checksum or some other technology. What I spent my waking hours doing made it into my dreams.

You can tell how under the weather I was, firstly by being too tired to go for the group ride, and not caring, and by the fact that I thought the First Saturday was yesterday when yesterday was the last saturday of the month. It shows that I wasn’t in my plate, to use a French expression.

My sleeping heart rate sometimes drops to 38 or lower. Yesterday it was at 56 BPM. According to Suunto it was 61BPM and according to Garmin it was just 45 BPM. Which one should I trust? I’d say Garmin.

If we ignore the details and look at the trends then Suunto, Apple and Garmin saw that I was fighting something and told me that I should rest. I was sick enough to confuse next Saturday with yesterday. Luckily I didn’t get to Geneva. That would have been a mistake.

If I felt good, then today I could have enjoyed a via ferrata. As I did not I stayed home. I want to rest today ahead of tomorrow’s run. If I wake and devices tell me to rest I suspect I will.

And Finally

And finally, today I am toying with the idea of a real rest day. I will still walk, but a short half hour circuit.