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Match Activities to Their Corresponding Workouts, Marking them "Completed"

This is something that SportTracks does really well, and shouldn't be hard for Garmin Connect to implement too.

When an activity is completed, an attempt should be made to match that activity to a workout scheduled for that day (match on activity type, and possibly other things like duration / distance). Once matched, the user should be able to review the match and correct it, in case there was a mismatch. The notion of marking a scheduled workout as "completed" would have to be introduced, along with the association between that workout and the activity that "completed" it. Again, users should be allowed to review the matches, and even manually make matches on their own.

This should be especially easy if the user, on his Garmin device, is using the "Do Workout" option. In these cases, there would be no ambiguity about the "match". But still, reviewing / changing matches should be allowed.

You could then show the user things like:
- You planned to run 50 miles this week, but you only ran 40.
- You had hoped to complete today's run with a 8:30 pace, but you only did an 8:45 pace.
- Etc.

0 JSRUNNER_ over 6 years ago

@samccauley if you schedule the workouts and then execute on your watch this should be very simple for Garmin to do and has been asked for many times on the forums. I guess it is just not seen as important enough. Garmin coach does exactly this sort of thing showing the workouts ticked off in your coaching schedule and removing them from the calendar when completed. and I agree that the next level of comparing executed to planned would be nice too - perhaps if more people start asking ......

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to JSRUNNER_

Actually, my Garmin Coach isn't doing that. I came searching for an answer as to why, or a guide as to how I can manually mark it as complete because I've done the benchmark run two days in a row and I'm still getting a reminder that my next workout is a benchmark run. I'm very frustrated.

0 patrickd123 over 3 years ago

I found the answer! After your workout, before you press Save on your watch, make sure it is connected to your phone. Your activity will only match at save time when connected to your phone.