Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Heat acclimation is when Garmin tries to guess how adjusted you are to the heat. Imagine somebody from Alaska visiting Texas for a race, they would want a few days to get used to the temperature and not just for jet lag. It doesn't look at factors like wind and humidity for how stressful the heat felt, and they show it separately from the ride data because it's about you not about that activity.
Good info. Thanks. I don't typically look at my ride data in Connect so wasn't sure exactly how temperature is represented in a post ride presentation; I usually look at Strava -- to your other point, yeah I'd be looking at the temperature graph in Strava 'analysis' tool.