Garmin 101 - New Features and How-Tos

New features

• Body battery
• Sleep tracking
• Heat acclimatization
• Music
• Contactless payments
• Mapping
• Sunrise / sunset times
• Flashlight

Display Screens

• Is it actionable?
• Bike
  o Intensity – power / HR / Ventilatory Rate
  o Duration – distance / time
  o Power
  - Instantaneous power display is not useful
  - 3s or 10s for peak power management
   - Lap power for steady-state power analytics
   - NP vs avg P
  o Cadence
  o Distance
  o Preferred page on an EDGE computer
   - 10s power
   - Lap power / NP
   - Cadence
   - Distance
• Run
  o Intensity – power / pace / HR
  o Duration – distance / time
  o pace
   - instantaneous pace poor
   - lap pace better
   - last lap pace
   - wrist-based pace useless
   - stryd or footpod better on trails, track, heavily built-up urban centres
  o HR
   - Used a ceiling for endurance runs or long races
   - Used to guess at recovery state
   - Affected by caffeine, glycogen availability, hydration status
  o Screen #1
   - 10s power
   - Lap pace
   - Distance
  o Screen #2
   - Lap pace
   - Last lap pace
   - HR
• Turn off smart data recording
• Auto lap
• Auto pause

Check out or interview with Scott Cooper of 4iiii for more on cycling power meters, and our recent chat with Steve Palladino on the Stryd running power meter.

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