That's cheered me right up!

[Lizcanrun]

Well! I've just looked at my VO2 doodah. I've never looked at it before and I don't really get how it works, but it tells me that I have the fitness age of a 34 year old and I'm 50! Love it! 😂👏😀

[Jools2020 Graduate10]

It makes you smile, doesn’t it it 😊. Mine is just too ludicrous I can’t take it seriously 😂

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Jools2020]

What is it? We Must take them seriously! It's science at its best 🤣

[Jools2020 Graduate10 in reply to Lizcanrun]

38 Superior, top 5% for age and gender, fitness age 26!

Oh, I’m 67 😂😂🤣

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Jools2020]

Wow!!!

[Jools2020 Graduate10 in reply to Lizcanrun]

Haha, it’s not possible, I don’t believe it 😂

[Week7 Graduate10]

The rule is that you take it as serious science when your fitness age goes down and disregard it as inaccurate when your fitness age goes up.

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Week7]

🤣

[Lookslikejames Graduate10]

Mine’s depressing me, it hasn’t changed for the 6 months I’ve been running, then all of a sudden the other day it changed so I’m older 😩 it was 36, now it’s 40. I’m currently 34 😭

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Lookslikejames]

Nooooo!

[Lookslikejames Graduate10 in reply to Lizcanrun]

I actually feel older so I’ll take 40 🤣

[Jools2020 Graduate10 in reply to Lookslikejames]

Is your maximum heart rate correct in the app? Just a thought.

[Lookslikejames Graduate10 in reply to Jools2020]

A good suggestion, thank you, but I have checked and it’s right. I’m not going to get too hung up on it anyway, as long as I can run then I’m doing ok

[Jools2020 Graduate10 in reply to Lookslikejames]

That’s very true! 😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Wow that’s fantastic, I was almost blue once but mid green is better than orange

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Oooh, I hadn't noticed the colours😊. It was your party that inspired me to look!

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Lizcanrun]

When you are orange for what feels like forever green is great and blue woo hoo you are so fit

[HeavyFoot Graduate10]

This VO2Max business has had me stumped for a while. It seemed the harder I ran, the older I became which was rather discouraging.

Last Saturday I decided to take my long run a bit easier: at a steady pace rather than off like a bat out of hell and coming back like a semi destroyed insect.

It took 2hrs 06 rather than the usual 2hrs 02. No big deal but I remained in Zones 2 and 3 for 90% of the time rather than 3 and 4 with a couple of minutes of 5 which I normally do.

Result: I was much fresher for the rest of the day and knocked a year off my fitness age. 😀

[nowster Graduate10]

As a broad brush simplification, if you are able to run fast at a low heart rate, the watch will award a good number. So if you do a fast 15 minute run, it will rate it better than a slower two hour run, even though it might require greater overall fitness to complete the longer run.

[BOBOZ Graduate10]

It's nice to see the VO2 improving - and you are getting younger, hahaha.But of course a watch in your wrist cannot really measure VO2. You need to be in a lab on a treadmill for that.

But it does give some indication fitness levels over time.

I wish I was the age my Garmin says.