Fatigue, Form and Recovery wrong values for Hiking activity.
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Hi, as every year, I had some days of hiking on the Alps. I definitely believe that the estimations concerning Fatigue, Form and Recovery for that activity are wrong: after a couple of days, the first one skyrocketed, consequently the Form dropped into the Going too Hard zone and Recovery reached 1%. So, I should be barely able to crawl on my knees, instead I continued to walk other hikes, bit tired for sure but not nearly dead. My sleep and HRV were within my normal values, so I really don’t understand what’s wrong …
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@Stefano-M64 I’m guessing you were using a “Hiking” profile to record the activity? What was the duration of the activities? I recently posted about my experience with the differences between “Hiking” and “Walking” and TSS scores (Difference between walk, hike and trek?).
Both use TSShr as the default, but Walking allows you to change the calculation to TSSr. Hiking does not allow this option. For me, this results in abnormally high TSS scores despite having my HR zones properly set. A multi-hour hike would yield TSS scores on par with a difficult trail run. So I use the “Walking” activity profile for almost all of my activities that are done at a slower-than-run/jog pace. This seems to yield far more believable TSS numbers.
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@duffman19 yes, you are right, I use the Hiking profile for my hikes(!). I read your post, but having already a lot of recorded hiking activities I don’t want to start the new ones as walks. Suunto should definitely correct this problem and provide a way to compute a reasonable TSS score for this kind of activity.
By the way, why Walk gives a VO2max estimation while Hiking doesn’t!? -
@Stefano-M64 I completely agree. My only guess as to why hiking doesn’t allow TSSr (and, therefore, cannot calculate VO2max) is that it can be assumed one might be carrying a large, weighted pack that would result in inaccurate measurements (higher HR for similar non-weighted paces)? But if we can edit our activities, we should at least be given the option to use TSSr if we so choose. Seems rather arbitrary to omit it all together.
