Is creating intervals without defined repetition time possible?

I don't see a way to do this.. when i edit one of my trainings the webpage says i have to enter 1-40 for the number of repeats. And i think the lap button will always end the current intervall so there is no way for the watch to know if you want to end the intervall or the repeat.

However your wife could create a training with max repeats and then press menu and select "end training" after 5/10k .. i think the remainder of the run should then count as cooldown

I once had a suggestion to make run trainings more similar to strength training where you can "skip a exercise" but never got any response..

RobCuadro said:

She wants to run for 5 min and walk for 30 seconds. The thing is we want to set this up so the watch keeps track of the intervals UNTIL she presses the lap button (or some other trigger) so she can use this if she is running a 5k or a 10k.

You do not even need a workout for this if the watch supports built-in Intervals (though you can do it with a classical Workout too). Typically, intervals are in the Run activity menu » Training » Quick Workout » Intervals » Structured repeats » Edit. Set the 5 min run and 30s rest, and set the repeats to a number high enough to cover any relevant distance (i.e. 20 - that is enough for almost two hours of intervals). Then start the intervals (Do Workout), and run as long as you want. When you did your planned distance, stop and save the activity. Next time you can reuse the same Intervals workout without editing it, regardless of the distance you plan to run.

trux said:

You can skip an exercise (in Garmin's terminology a workout step), by pressing the Lap button. That was always possible.

This is not what this thread is about so it does not really matter.. but i meant it differently.  My problem back then would have been a training like this:

Some days i might only want to do 5 repeats instead of 10.. currently i would have to press the lap button 10 times to end the last 5 repeats of run/other .. or end the training. Or create two trainings.. 

If this were a strenght training there is the option to skip a group..

I hardly ever do 10 sets but its super easy to skip from Deadlifts to Benchpress.. "press start, select skip group".  No matter how many sets a plan to do, i can use this training for training 3 sets, 5, sets , 10.. really would love to have something similar for run trainings.

I understand that both training types are different and that run trainings can have repeats of repeats, guess that why it would be much harder to have s simple "skip repeat" but one can still wish for it..

Sorry for derailing this thread.

Stephan said:

Some days i might only want to do 5 repeats instead of 10.. currently i would have to press the lap button 10 times to end the last 5 repeats of run/other .. or end the training.

Yes, and what is the problem with ending the training, when you already did a sufficient number of intervals (lower than planned)? It can only cause problems if you want to do another workout, and in such case, you simply start a new leg of a multisport activity with a different workout.

trux said:

what is the problem with ending the training, when you already did a sufficient number of intervals (lower than planned)? It can only cause problems if you want to do another workout, and in such case, you simply start a new leg of a multisport activity with a different workout.

Honestly, i simply don't get this to work.. maybe i'm doing something wrong. Happy to learn something new.

What i tried was:

- start a run (no matter if with or without a training)

- long-press menu, change sport, select run

- long-press menu, but now i don't see a way to select an other training.. (my fenix 8 only displays "undo sports change", "navigate", "run settings", 'change sport", "watch settings"

How you do select a training for "a new leg of a multisport activity"? Thanks!

Yes, my bad, it looks like you indeed cannot start another workout in Multisport. Though, if your watch supports multisport workouts, you could prepare the two workouts for separate legs in advance.

trux said:

Though, if your watch supports multisport workouts, you could prepare the two workouts for separate legs in advance.

Yeah, for specific runs like the OP mentioned a predefined multisport-training will work.

But it would be great to do this on the fly.  Now that predefined multisport-trainings are a thing, maybe its a easy change for garmin to allow selecting a new training when changing sports.

E.g. I'd like to combine any training (intervalls) with any pacepro i already have.

First multisport-leg be a warmup, the next leg use pacepro and the last leg some intervall ..  i'm thinking of warming up for a local parkrun 5k, doing the parkrun with a target time in mind and finishing with some intervalls.  I don't want to predefine all the possibilites as multisport trainings..

Maybe its time to visit https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/ 

Stephan said:

Yeah, for specific runs like the OP mentioned a predefined multisport-training will work.

For the case in the OP, you do not need any multisport. You simply do the number of intervals you want, and then stop and save the activity. Whether you do the cool-down phase before or after saving the activity is up to you, but both cases are possible, and you do not need any special handling for that. Just cool down whenever you decide to stop, regardless whether the workout and the activity is still in progress or not.