Summary Stats on Garmin Connect different from the charts

BrianDorans said:

however the summary stats data and intervals data was wrong, as it recorded the first part as a warm up which combined the first interval and first recovery

When you manually press lap between alternating periods of high/low intensity in a run activity, your watch assumes you're running an interval workout (which you were) and tries to auto-categorize your intervals (which you didn't ask it to do), and that's why you're seeing that issue. (It thinks the first work interval was too slow to be a work interval, so it categorized it as a warmup instead.)

If you had instead followed a programmed workout, the intervals would've been categorized based on the workout steps.

Strava just shows your laps as-is, ignoring any interval categories.

Here's a Garmin support article on interval auto-categorization: https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=QF6ojxsT3523NqpQsqZhT6

This feature can't be turned off, but what you can do is edit your intervals in Connect and recategorize your 1st work interval as a "run" interval instead of a warmup. (You'll also probably want to change the 1st rest interval to "rest" or "recovery.)

In the Connect website:

- open your activity

- select the gear icon in upper-right hand corner

- select Edit

- select Edit Intervals

In the Connect app:

- open your activity

- select the 3 dots icon

- select Edit Activity

- select Show More Data

- select Intervals

Yes that worked, thanks. The first interval was 400m and reasonably quick, 7:30 per mile, so unsure why it logged as warm up, but anyway it's been amended through as above. I do understand that pre-loaded workouts wouldn'tt have this issue, but there are ocassions when I turn up to a team track workout and yiu don;t know the session until you arrive, so use the lap button. I was confused as I didn't have to amend anything on my Garmin 935 and ive just uograded to a 965

No problem!

BrianDorans said:

, but there are ocassions when I turn up to a team track workout and yiu don;t know the session until you arrive, so use the lap button.

Oh for sure, I use manual laps for basically every group workout, especially bc the distance/time for each interval may not be exactly as planned when you're training with a group. (e.g. nominal rest might be 90 seconds, but actual rest could be shorter or longer depending on how fast you were compared to your similar pace group/)

This new feature is def annoying - lots of ppl have complained about it and wished there was a way to turn it off. (Especially because it messes up your ability to look at all your laps on the watch after a workout, since you can't expand intervals on the watch, only in Connect.)