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I’ve been using them for a while and they seem to work well.
I’ve no idea about training, I was just going out for a run a couple of times a week, sometimes slow, sometimes less slow. I wasn’t really improving much and was just plodding around 5k-10k distance.
I found that if you put an event in the calendar on your Garmin, it’ll make daily run suggestions to get you up to whatever target time you’ve set.
I used it for about 3 months for a 10 mile race at Easter. I was hoping for sub 1h30 but after mostly following the watch suggestions it gave me an estimated time of 1h22. I ran a 1h24 so was more than happy with that.
Followed the watch again for a trail 10k a few weeks back and managed a good time in that as well.
Needless to say, I’m pretty happy with it and plan on trying to use it to get my 10k time sub 50 and my 5k to sub 20.
My only criticism of it is that it’ll often have multiple back to back base run days, sometimes six or seven in a row. For me that’s just asking to be injured but it may work well for others.