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I want to set my intervals for the Jeff Galloway Run Walk Run plan, but it doesn’t look like there is a way to do this, help?

9310957
29 days ago

So in the Jeff Galloway plan it says to pick the interval that matches the pace you want to achieve. So for me, I want to do 30 seconds of running followed by 30 seconds of running. There doesn’t seem to be a way to edit the workout to include the intervals and you can’t just manually add an activity with those intervals and have it count towards the training plan. So here I am on these runs looking at my watch every few seconds to see if my interval is over, when I know my watch has the capability of doing this for me. Not sure if there is a fix right now, but if anyone could like this, maybe software engineers can get on it please! 

  • 0 13 days ago

    Try this to set run walk run intervals. Don't know why they don't do this for you tbh. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/fitness/setting-runwalk-feature/

    However working out what your intervals should be is a different story.

  • 0 13 days ago in reply to 8246862

    That link just took me to how to set up run walk intervals outside a Garmin training plan, which I know how to do, I’ve done it before. It makes me frustrated knowing my watch can do it, there is just no option to set up it up within the Garmin training plan or an option to have a manually recorded activity count towards the training plan and progress me on the training plan. 

  • 0 12 days ago

    It's probably not a perfect solution but you could use this 3rd party CIQ data field to measure run/walk intervals during a workout: Run and Walk

    EDIT: "measure" is probably the wrong word here. I mean that the data field allows you to set run/walk intervals and tells you when to run and when to walk

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to 9310957

    Pretty sure it applies for all runs and that's all it is inside the workout . Annoying it doesn't update the training plan dynamically. You can see a run/walk detection stat after your workout under stats.

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to 8246862
    8246862 said:
    Pretty sure it applies for all runs and that's all it is inside the workout . Annoying it doesn't update the training plan dynamically. You can see a run/walk detection stat after your workout under stats.

    No, run/walk intervals and run/walk detection are 2 separate and independent features

    - run/walk intervals = the watch tells you when to run and when to walk. This doesn't work when a workout is active (that's OP's complaint)

    - run/walk detection = the watch determines when you ran, walked, and stood still. This works all the time, even when run/walk intervals are not specified

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Thanks, I've just tested it and indeed it didn't work inside the workout, how stupid. It's probably such an easy fix as well. I bet they disabled it for some bizarre health and safety reasons.

    I'm not sure about a 3rd party app. What protection do we get for our data? 

  • 0 12 days ago in reply to 8246862
    8246862 said:
    I'm not sure about a 3rd party app. What protection do we get for our data? 

    When you install a 3rd party app, you're asked to agree to a set of permissions that the app needs to function. You can see these permissions on the app page. The run and walk app needs the following permissions:

    apps.garmin.com/.../280057f8-e5f2-4913-be15-5c7c43718b60

    Permissions

    This app requires access to:

    Your Garmin ConnectTm fitness profile
    Record additional information into activity files

    The app description explains why:

    With the layout "1 field and 2 fields" the heart rate within the current heart rate zone can be displayed additionally. The color of the arrow corresponds to that of the heart rate zone. Access to the fitness profile is required for this.

    Access to the activity data is required for saving the data for the average pace and the graph of the running and walking intervals.

    FYI:

    - no Connect IQ app can read detailed activity history stored on the device. (By this I mean apps can't read the details of timed activities stored on the watch, other than basic info like start time, duration, distance and sport. Information like the location of activities is not available, for example.)

    CIQ apps are highly restricted in the data they can read, and again, when they do need to read personal information, there's an associated permission that the user has to agree to

    - if a CIQ app wanted access to your current (not historical) position/location, it would need to ask for permission (but the run and walk app does not request this permission)

    - in order for a CIQ app to send any data back to the developer, it would require internet access. This permission would look like this: "Send/receive information to/from the Internet". You can see that the run and walk app does not request this permission, which means it's not able to send or receive data on the internet, and there isn't really a conceivable way for it to send your personal data back to the developer. [But even if it could, there isn't much data they could access in your fitness profile, other than things like age, weight and HR zones. For example, your name isn't in there.]

    - CIQ apps are also highly restricted in what they can actually do on the system, which tends to avoid situations where a CIQ app causes an activity to crash or the watch to reboot, for example, except in the case where there's some Garmin bug

    Ofc, since bugs exist and exploits are always theoretically possible, the only way you can be 100% safe is to not use a 3rd party app in the first place.