Endurance Innovation 18 – Garmin 101 and New Features

Endurance Innovation 18 – Garmin 101 and New Features

Andrew is at Eurobike, so Michael’s flying solo. In this episode, he covers his favourite new Garmin wearable and bike computer features before talking about how he likes to set up his activity profile data screens.

New features

  • Body battery
  • Sleep tracking
  • Heat acclimatization
  • Music
  • Contactless payments
  • Mapping
  • Sunrise / sunset times
  • Flashlight

Display Screens

  • Is it actionable?
  • Bike
    • Intensity – power / HR / Ventilatory Rate
    • Duration – distance / time
    • Power
      • Instantaneous power display is not useful
      • 3s or 10s for peak power management
      • Lap power for steady-state power analytics
      • NP vs avg P
    • Cadence
    • Distance
    • Preferred page on an EDGE computer
      • 10s power
      • Lap power / NP
      • Cadence
      • Distance
  • Run
      • Intensity – power / pace / HR
      • Duration – distance / time
      • Pace
        • instantaneous pace poor
        • lap pace better
      • last lap pace
      • wrist-based pace useless
      • stryd or footpod better on trails, track, heavily built-up urban centres
    • HR
      • Used a ceiling for endurance runs or long races
      • Used to guess at recovery state
      • Affected by caffeine, glycogen availability, hydration status
    • Screen #1
      • 10s power
      • Lap pace
      • Distance
    • Screen #2
      • Lap pace
      • Last lap pace
      • HR
  • Turn off smart data recording
  • Auto lap
  • Auto pause

1 Comment
  • Harry Fan
    Posted at 15:02h, 18 September Reply

    Thank you for the useful podcast episode. Useful nuggets of information in there on getting the most out of my Garmin:)

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