With my garmin still out of action I turned to the Mrs last night in bed, genuinely questioning how I was going to set an alarm for work the next day. I knew I was going to be up early to head into the office and didn’t want to use my phone which would wake her up too!
Even though I’m in winter pale mode, I’ve still got a super white strap mark where my garmin has been for years and years!
Well, you learn something new everyday. I had no idea you can set an alarm on a Garmin.
That is (Garmin) my first and second alarm every day.
So I dont wake the wife up. Wrist vibration.
Im a 24/7 guy 
And I do act on the info if unsure about how I feel.
Feel off but not 100% sure and the metrics confirm I’ll take notice. When I’ve not done so, it doesnt end well.
I can’t remember the last timeI used an alarm to wake me up. You guys must all have great sleep scores!
I’d say the metrics are a bit like asking a mate for a second opinion that you might ignore. Feel shit, Watch says you feel shit too - more likely to rest. You feel like bailing, watch says your good to go - more likely to get on it.
The long term stuff is useful too.
When I was triathlon traing I used an HRV app way before Garmin offered it. Had a finger sensor.
It was largely useless, some days I felt great, it would say nah mate youre cooked. Other days felt like shit and it would say good to go.
Only thing it was good for was you basically got a days warning before you got ill.
I wear it most nights for sleep but not religiously. I don’t need my Garmin to tell me it’s a rest day today - I can feel myself that my legs are fucking killing me today from last nights track session…
I only use it for the early morning wake up calls, but for day to day we both just use phone alarms.
I always set the Garmin as a backup on race morning too, along with my phone
As others have said my phone which I do use drives my wife up the wall - even on the lowest setting it’ll still wake her up. Typically I’m up everyday before her too!
One benefit to being divorced. My wife used the default iPhone alarm which is violent, but worse she set like 10 alarms as she couldnt wake up. Fucking hated that sound.
Which race?
My Enduro has been fine, used it today as normal. The average pace looked dodgy but I don’t think that was down to the watch. 
FWIW I also have an automatic sleep hours on mine to dim the screen otherwise it burns your retina and lights up the room as the newer screens are so bright.
Only a small local one. Which I don’t want to do! 
4 trigs run by Sidmouth running club.
About 16/7km and 1200m elevation I think. They reverse the direction every year and it’s a ‘use your own lines’ to the trigs, fell style race.
And for no extra cost, you get a condescending pat on the head for being a good consumer
I must find a way to turn these off! 
Cool. I was looking at the LDWA event on 27/4 called Sidmouth Strider or something like that. 20/30 mile options and runners allowed.
I had an ex with that. Even over 10 years down the road and I still hate the sound.
Anyone having problems with their Garmin crashing? Lucy Gossage is compiling a list of problems to send on to Garmin.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_S10mtXP5/?igsh=MW0yOXdzdjhocGFlZw==
Looks like Fenix 7 & 7S are particularly sketchy.
Nothing for me.
Any of you lot done any analysis of Garmin Load numbers (directly)?
I’ve copied out a bunch of data from 2021 and some of the load numbers are unexpected, and/or don’t really correlate with what you might imagine would describe the load from the activity.
