Epix Gen 2 Continued

Today I went for a run and the Garmin Epix Gen 2 labelled it as unproductive. Yesterday I went for a 5k run and I wore the Garmin Instinct Solar with the HRM-Pro Plus and it was just marked as a wrong. I was curious to see if I would get more running with this belt and the Garmin Instinct Solar and the answer is "nope" so the heart rate strap is not an Epix Gen 2 replacement.

Cycling is the reason I wanted to get an HR monitor belt. When I cycle with the Garming Edge Explore device it connects to various sensors but not HR, which is why an HR strap makes sense.

It seems paradoxical that the Epix Gen 2 watch and Garmin connect would class today’s run as unproductive when it was meant to be a recovery run. The paradox is that I got a low score anyway, because the pace was too slow so I got a 49 percent completion score.It’s easy to run that slowly when going uphill but not on a flat surface in a town with morning traffic. I tried to slow but I didn’t manage. If I tried walking it would be too slow.

Training readiness, especially when it comes to sleep is seriously flawed. If you get up for any reason during the night it will mark the time you got up as the time you woke up. This means that the watch is under-counting sleep hours and sleep time. This means that the readiness score cannot go up. Meanwhile with the Garmin Instinct Solar a few hours are enough for the body battery to count me as being at 100 percent.

And Finally, the Garmin Epix Gen 2 is the type of watch that you should wear for at least a month before it gets to really know you. It’s interesting to compare what it says compared to what iOS apps say. According to the Gentler app I’m fine and according to the Training today app I’m also good. In another two weeks the Epix Gen 2 should line up with the other apps.