Comparing Workouts In Garmin Training Center
I had a good FIRST speed workout tonight. I went to LA Fitness and hit the treadmill for a (6) * 1/2 mile at a 6 minute mile pace with a (slightly fuzzy) 90-110 second rest period (walking at 3 MPH). I know that I had completed an identical workout in the beginning of the month, and was curious how the stats compared. I thought I would end up pulling up two separate graphs and eyeballing the data. I was pleasantly surprised when, after loading my data into Garmin Training Center, I right clicked and saw there was a builtin “Compare Activity” feature which I had never noticed before. I was able to select my current workout and the one I had done earlier in the month, and then graph different statistics for the workouts. Cool stuff.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
It appears that your heart rate got slightly lower at the same pace? That would be cool!
December 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Yeah, it looks like it dropped by about 4-5 BPM, which is pretty nice when you are running anywhere near max. In this case it took me from running at about 95/96% max HR to about 92/93% max HR on the final two intervals. I’m looking forward to trying this again at the end of next month and see if I can get the HR to drop another BPM or two.
I feel like one month of the FIRST workouts did a lot more for me than the three months of higher mileage (150/165 MPM) but low intensity workouts I did over the summer.