home-screen-athlete-zones
The order of the values of 'from' and 'to' of the pace part should be switched in order to match the heart rate 'from' and 'to'. Usually higher heart rate should match 'quicker' pace.
I.e.: current
| Zone | From (min/km) | To (min/km) | From (bpm) | To (bpm) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:05 | Slower | <= | 121 | Recovery pace |
new proposal:
| Zone | From (min/km) | To (min/km) | From (bpm) | To (bpm) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slower | 6:05 | <= | 121 | Recovery pace |
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Thanks for the nice pick-up! We'll definitely be making that change :)
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I am going to hijack this thread as it is related to the Athlete Zones too and an improvement which disturbs me from the first day I am using Athletica 
These are my Athlete Zones, I played a little with the Critical Pace to get a better HR to Pace alignment, but this is not the focus for this one 
What I am really having troubles with is the fact that for example the heart rate of 143 is in Zone 2 and Zone 3a. For me I can either have 143 being Zone 2 or Zone 3a but as we do not have decimals for heart rate, this whole table does not work.
Same for Pace, is a pace of 6:19 now Zone 2 or already in Zone 3a ?
I know this is perhaps me super picky, but I am unable to tell Garmin to use one heartrate limit for 2 zones and also the Coach puts 143 into what - zone 2 or zone 3a now, it makes a difference on compliance and meeting the workout target.
Thanks
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Dear @herbert
If your upper limit of Z2 is 143 you know that you should stay way under 143. Once you are teetering around 143 you know you’ve got to slow down if your target is aerobic development without additional stress from zone 3. so if you are running at 138 you’re in good intensity with plenty of buffer. Heart rate varies from day to day depending on many factors like your nutritional status, hydration, stress, external temperature etc. you have two levers within control: pace and your attitude/ego. You are harvesting gains when you stay within your zone 1-2 without dipping into z3 for its additional stress. Instead of focusing on what your upper limit is, pick a heart rate range in the middle of your zone 2 and enjoy the gains hitting the Golden middle … thoughts? MJ
Good Morning,
I personally and from a “feeling” do understand the concept of the zones and their limits, but how does a watch like Garmin decide on this. Especially if the same value should be used as an upper limit in Z2 and the lower limit in Z3?
143 for example, is it Z2 or Z3 for our watches or the AI coach ? In which zone do I end up if I run in 143 HR? Z2 or Z3 ?
So it not really know about how the Athletica system works overall, but it is more about me being picky after syncing the Athletica zones manually to my Garmin watch.
There, if you enter 143 as a limit for the Zone, Garmin automatically assumes that 142 is Z2 and 143 is Z3 - which makes sense, but Athletica Athlete Zone Overview is not that precise.
And yes, these are things in a modern world, with numbers, which confuses me. The upper limit of one zone cannot be the lower limit in another zone - at least not for beats per minute as far as I understand the concept.