Unless you live in the Himalayas I’d think that’s quite low. Then again I don’t think it’s accurate enough to draw any meaning conclusions from.
I think I turned mine off on the 945 because the flashy red light was annoying me at night. The sampling rate can be changed though if needed
I’m fairly sure pulseox was really only designed to be of interest for when you’re hiking at fairly extreme altitudes. The only real reason I looked at my number was related to covid, and that fact the gp within our family said spO2 levels were somewhat useful to track
It’ not a watch though, it’s a proper pulse oximeter, could’ve used it as an excuse to buy a fenix 6 as the watch would be the upgrade to see if it was accurate… but no I do assume it’s simply reading low, although it reads fine for Maryka.
Anaemia is not impossible, but no chance of me visiting a doc for any tests, certainly no real breathing side of things, maybe I’ll buy some more steak.
Or kale?
Oh. I mean buy a fenix 6 obviously, but that doesn’t sound good. Unless the pulse ox meter is duff. Or you’re at altitude.
Anaemia won’t affect your spO2. You would have less red blood cells (haemoglobin) but the ability to carry oxygen would be unchanged.
If it’s truly reading between 92-88% (i.e. you are in a good ventilatorynposture and taking good breathes in) and ok on Mrs JJ then I would recommend getting checked out with your doctor. Try other hands, earlobes etc and make sure they are warm and you’ve removed your nail polish.
Will take a couple of minutes to sit down with practice nurse at your gps and have it checked. Likely a misreading but minor inconvenience to be checked.
Didn’t realise this was a feature.
8 months to get 5%, transferring my entry to Ironman 2035 when I’ll be ready to go 
Acclimatisation only really matters if it matters. If you know what I mean. I believe it needs to be connected to your phone at the start of the workout so it knows the weather. I’d imagine if you’re moving into the summer in Oz, it’ll ramp up fairly quickly now if you’re riding outdoors and it’s hotter. Indoor workouts, even in a sweat box, wouldn’t contribute (even though in reality they definitely are physiologically).
There’s an altitude one too, but if you’re not training at altitude then you’d never know about it
What the easiest way to get a weekly hrTSS from Garmin running?
For the last year Garmin exports to Training Peaks (free), then I manually have to open each run and switch it to hrTSS from rTSS, type that into something else to get the sum at the end of the week.
To answer my own question:
Delete the pace zones from TrainingPeaks. It then defaults to hrTSS instead of rTSS
Another Garmin question:
What’s it’s lactate threshold estimate like? For the first time ever (in 7 months or so) the fenix told me I had set a new level.
Any idea why it decided to set one now?
Any idea why it didn’t set one before?
Is this the same as LT1 or LT2?
Etc.
Presumably the last run you did was enough to fill in whatever part the first beat algorithm was missing? Was this after your return to faster running? As that would make sense, remember it would need to be on good for garmin conditions - ie flat or very stable air pressure and on good ground.
You need various paced runs and it looks for your pace where HRV indicates a discontinuity, it would equate to LT2. Accuracy is “who knows” - how do you think it compares?
Yes, it was after the track session but I wasn’t going all out - what I would call around threshold effort, aiming for a pace around my olympic tri 10k pace. Of course, I did that for 50mins back in August for the London Tri and I was faster for longer…on average. Maybe as you say I hit some peaks that I haven’t hit since getting the Fenix back in June. I did kick off the 800s too fast and had to rein it in.
I am feeling very out of shape, so if it’s saying my 10k (roughly) pace is 5:27/km then that’s a touch embarrassing but probably not far off. Would’ve been under 5min/km back in summer. Or maybe it just feels hard because I haven’t pushed it for months, and it’s still there if I go for it…no rush I suppose.
I don’t believe it needs an all out pace to calculate it, just something around threshold, it’s looking for a change in HRV at the point - firstbeat have published a general description of their algorithm.
I was (many years ago) running 39 minute 10km just at lunchtime work jogs and it was saying 4:18 as my threshold - but I turned off the calculation as I didn’t agree with being at all reasonable, so I wouldn’t assume it’s really identifying your 10km pace.
Now I look back at it I think it confirms what you’re saying. Some bits were way faster than I was thinking of under 3:30/km in the WU and even when I found my pace my HR was way high.
I won’t read anything into it now, maybe see how it tracks over time though.
Personally I find a lot of the Garmin estimates yo be total codswallop. I ran a fast (for me) 5K when I got my Fenix. It said you’ve set a new threshold and then said you could run a 5k in this time. 2 mins faster than the balls out attempt I had that minute just finished.
I’d agree with this in terms of the number, but I get fairly regular changes in mine, and it generally correlates with how I’m feeling fitness wise. The actual pace is generally a bit slow.
As for you feeling out of shape, I concur. Garmin gave me a time 30s/km slower than my pb marathon pace last week!
I’ve never tracked my steps on my Garmin, 'cos you know, elite aferleet innit 
However, given my run injuries, I’m going to start doing it. Two questions:
Do you track including or excluding workouts?
How do you get the step count on the face of a 935 and still keep time/date/charge?
I’ve not worked out how to exclude steps from an activity, if you’re running you’re still doing the steps so guess it makes sense to keep them in.
The 935 and my Fenix 5 are the same software so to change the watch face you press and hold the middle button, there is a page called Watch Face, go into that and then you can change the data and layout
Ah perfect, thanks 
