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How to find 5K time

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Former Member over 10 years ago
Hi Everyone,

First time posting! Actually, I'm new to garmin in general. I just completed my first run with Garmin, and it was really cool. I had been using RunKeeper, and am now going to switch over. I hope Garmin is more accurate because i used both at the same time, and the distances were different.

Anywho... I was used to looking at a particular distance and seeing what my time was at that time (i.e. 5K= 27:00 minutes). I know how to do that in RunKeeper, but I was wondering how to see that in Garmin connect if I did not have a personal best time. Hope this makes sense, and I would love some help. Thank you.

Using Garmin Forerunner 220

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  • 0 over 10 years ago
    Well - depends what you are expecting - I'm not familiar with Runkeeper. In connect there are set distances for which Garmin will try and track personal bests. For running they are 1k, 1M, 5K,10K Half-Marathon and Marathon. Connect will look for an activity that is near to these distances (not sure what the tolerance is) and if it detects that the time is better than any existing PB then it will ask you if you want to replace that PB/PR. You can also manually select any activity and set it as a PR for a distance - but only for one of the standard distances - so if you want PRs for 8 Miles or 10 Miles then you are out of luck.
  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I would like to easily find 5k time etc in an activity.

    Now I can only drag the cursor to 5k distance and try to find the cumulative time...

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to ge0kas
    ge0kas said:
    Now I can only drag the cursor to 5k distance and try to find the cumulative time...

    If you just want to see the time of 5k from the start, the you can use CGOverrides - it then shows both the distance and the time in the tooltip over the graphs:

    Another way, which allows you to cut out any 5km section from the activity (not only from the start, but also in the middle), is using the Trim Activity option in the activity menu. You can trim from a certain point (it can be the sart, or a specific time, or a specific distance) and you can also specify the distance you want to measure (5km in this case) - the tool then tells you in the top the exact time and pace instantly at the top of the screen. You do not need to save the trimmed activity, simply abandon it without saving the trimming. But even if you did save it by mistake, the operation is reversible, so you do not need to fear losing any data.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Manual Search is Understandable. Not viable though.

    I d like GC to search and find the BEST 5k part in my activity and present he results like Strava does

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to ge0kas
    ge0kas said:
    I d like GC to search and find the BEST 5k part in my activity and present he results like Strava does

    GC will only show the best 5k part if it is a new personal record. If you need it for every run, just look at it in Strava.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    I can't see my 5k times in Strava. Maybe that's only for paying subscribers. 

    In GC, I can see my best 5k in my profile, but it only says the year it happened. Pretty sure it was my most recent run but there doesn't seem to be a way to find out.

    Think I need to set 1k auto laps so I can work it out myself 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member
    In GC, I can see my best 5k in my profile, but it only says the year it happened. Pretty sure it was my most recent run but there doesn't seem to be a way to find out.

    Make sure you've sent your curent PR's to the device from the page Personal Records, after having approved the last  ones. The best times for 1km, 1mile, 5km, 10km, .... PR's are detected directly on the watch, but need to be kept up-to-date.

    If you want to look for the best 5km time yourself manually, just open the concerned Ativity in GC Web, select the option Trim in the cogwheel menu, switch the triming mode to Distance, set the starting point somewhere after the slower warm-up, set the distance to 5km, click somewhere on the screen to get the numbers refreshed, and you'll see the corresponding 5km time instantly. You can repeat the process as many times as you want to adjust, and find so the fastest 5km section. You can then save the trimming (don't worry, it is reversible), to set the 5km time to it, then activate the function Set as PR, set the 5km record, and then you can reverse the Activity back to the original (the record will remain preserved).

    The search of the fastest 5km section for the PR happens automatically, as long as you keep approving your new records and sending them to the device.