Runner dilemma #34 Garmin Can Show How Much Battery My Body Has Left
Runner's Log | Runner's Dilemma #34 Garmin Can Show How Much Battery My Body Has Left I trained for more than three months aiming for a sub-4 full marathon. But after 21km it got so hard that I kept alternating between walking and running, and I finally dropped out at 24km. The club president, who paced me, kept going to 35km as a long slow distance (LSD) run. Two days later I saw him again, and after we’d talked for a while, he said this. “I don’t get why you struggled so much. You did three 35km LSD runs, and you trained steadily…” “I couldn’t figure it out either, so I looked around in Garmin and found something called Stamina. It feels like a body battery. At the 24km mark, that battery had only 37% left. I guess it really was hard.” “Huh? What’s that? How do you check it?” I showed him how to find it in the Garmin app. “Oh, I’m at 64%. And that’s after 35km. Actually, I was going to keep going to the full marathon distance that day, but I figured everyone would be waitin...
