The recovery advisor thing seems a bit annoying to me. I have one on the 735XT and also on the Edge 530 but they never speak to each other.
DCR said it’s a feature that’s held on the device and not within connect but if I’ve spent a week running, using TrainerRoad / Zwift then go out for a cycle, the Edge only sees me as having done excercise once that week. Same with the watch in similar circumstances.
Surely it wouldnt be too hard to programme connect to download recovery times to each device.
Sort of yeah, basically it’s saying you won’t be up to peak performance until around x hours, and as you get closer it moves from “take a break” to “easy stuff” to “get off your ass you’re detraining!”
Personally I don’t use it - the output of Zwift isnt reliable data to me. I don’t think anyone is synching data well enough to maintain a consistent system. I record treadmill/indoor bike on Garmin, and connect things to TR/Zwift/Rouvy etc separately.
Slightly off topic, but see that SRAM has just bought Hammerhead. I have been using Hammerhead Karoo 2 for past 6 months (after frying my Garming Edge 1030 on electric fence). Hammerhead is far better than Garmin
Yeah i saw that. Aren’t they the size of a small caravan though?
In what way are they better? That’s not a dig, just genuine curiosity as to what features the Karoo has that the Garmin doesn’t, or is it down to UI and user friendliness?
How is it better?
Screen is clearer and has more fields
Navigation is infinately better, its strange as Garmin comes from a navigation company, but I really don’t like routing in the 1030
Garmin takes an eternity to calculate routes, karoo is almost instant
Karoo doesn’t crash
UI doesn’t feel like it is 20 years old
Karoo was much cheaper than the 1030 plus
There are some features that are better on Garmin, for example Karoo doesn’t have a lap feature. Another thing that is better on Garmin is autopause, on the karoo it is set globally for all profiles, on the Garmin it is unique to a profile, so on my MB profile, Autopause is off, for commuting I have it set at 5kph, and for club ride set as pause when stopped