Signs of improvement

My last 3 runs (Saturday and Sunday and Monday) have actually felt pretty good.  I'm think that the last couple weeks of slow, steady, and consistent work are starting to pay off.   I also made another tweak this weekend with my cadence.  I made a focus to up my cadence and wound up averaging about 177 the last 3 runs instead of the typical 170 I had been running at.  While it takes some focus and doesn't feel completely natural, it does seem easier and also my hips are less sore. I ran 6 on Saturday, a workout on Sunday, and 3.67 today with hardly any fatigue.

The Garmin auto-coach still seems kind of wonky.  I ran an easy 6 on Saturday at 8:43 pace after a rest day on Friday.  Then I woke up Sunday, it told me to do another rest day.  I wasn't going to waste a Sunday training day so I set up my own workout: 

• 10 minute warm up at 8:45 pace
• 10 minutes at 7:12 pace
• 5 minute recovery at 8:43 pace
• 5 minutes at 6:51 pace
• 6 minute cooldown at 8:55 pace

It seemed to be the perfect workout for my current condition that day.  I ran hard but never really hurt to much and remained in control and had no problems with exhaustion.  

I woke up Monday and was expecting the watch to tell me to do a rest day since I ran a workout on my rest day but nope, instead it told me to run 32 minutes at 9:20 pace.  I would up running 32 minutes at 8:43 pace and averaged 139 HR for the run which made it one of my best "easy runs" for a while.

Garmin has me scheduled for another workout tomorrow.  I'll be shocked if I wake up tomorrow and it still recommends a workout but who knows.  If not, I can start ignoring the watches suggestions and run my own workouts from time to time until the training algorithm sorts itself out.