REM came in at 68 minutes, 14 above your 54-minute average, alongside deep sleep scoring 97, efficiency at 95, and restfulness at 76. The night ran cleanly through all stages without meaningful disruption, and the result shows in every downstream marker: Garmin readiness at 94 is 14 points above your 14-day average, Body Battery fully recharged to 100, and resting heart rate at 38bpm, 2 below your recent average.

HRV balance scored 90, above your 14-day average of 85, and overnight HRV at 53ms sits above your baseline of 49ms. All three cardiovascular markers, RHR, HRV, and HRV balance, are pointing the same direction on the same morning.

No sessions yesterday and an Oura stress reading of normal for the day, with only 0.5 hours of detected high stress. A quiet day with no training cost means the overnight recovery cycle ran without competition. The previous day activity score came in at 90, confirming yesterday’s activity level was well-matched to recovery needs rather than adding overnight cost.

The REM rebound is consistent with the weekly pattern: the two lowest REM nights this week followed harder session days, and a clean rest day allowed the later sleep cycles to run fully. The timing contributor scored 50, with bedtime at 22:41 on the later side, so the strong REM and deep sleep totals were achieved despite, not because of, sleep onset timing. An earlier wind-down on session evenings, where session load already pressures the second half of the night, remains the most consistent lever in your own data.

With today’s strength session planned and readiness, HRV balance, and Body Battery all above your recent averages simultaneously, the markers support a full-effort session. This is what a well-recovered baseline looks like in your data.

Tomorrow’s hard outdoor run sits on a morning where conditions are forecast to be warm (feels-like 32°C), so today’s strength session is the lower cardiovascular-demand day by design. Heat compounds cardiac cost in ways Body Battery drain alone does not reflect, and tomorrow’s perceived effort will run higher than the readiness score alone would predict.