Anyone Completed a Garmin Coach Plan?

I'm approaching the end of my plan and noticed it created a workout for my 10K race. However, I'm hesitant to actually run this workout on the watch during my race for two reasons:

I'm not sure if it will give me auto-laps every 1 mile. I imagine it will, but I have had auto-lap turned off for all of my prior Garmin Coach runs since they are sort of split up into different segments/intervals, so I did not want auto-lap to override getting my pace for those full section of each workout.
I'm worried the run will completely stop after it hits the end of the workout (measured by 6.21 GPS miles). I've had prior races where my GPS distance will be beyond 6.21 miles, and I would not want the watch to stop short of the finish line.

Any one have any experience with the above? I'd love to have my race stats saved into the archived version of my Garmin Coach plan, but at the same time, I want 1-mile splits and I don't want my saved workout and GPS course to be messed up because the workout ended short of my finish line.

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silver11a over 5 years ago in reply to chris_in_cal +2

I finished the 10k plan last night. The Garmin does stop at 6.21 miles and I have mine set to lap every mile which it did. The first data screen has a large distance left and smaller average pace and total…

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I am 7 weeks out from finishing my 10k plan.

1.) I have my auto-laps setup for 400m (.25 mile) and when the plan calls for some odd distance or time that doesn't coincide with this, the lap is marked with the plan. If for instance the segment of the plan is longer that 400m, that plan step is split at the 400m and then at the remainder. So it shows up as "Recovery" for 400m, and then "Recovery" for another .04 miles (or 22.4 seconds to round off the 2:30 minutes of "recovery).

2.) If the workout ends, immediately hit the "start / stop" button and it will continue to record as part of the workout.

0 AllanOlesen67 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

2.) If the workout ends, immediately hit the "start / stop" button and it will continue to record as part of the workout.

I think the OP knows that this is the behaviour of a Garmin Coach workout, but he doesn't want that distraction during an actual race and is consequently hoping that the behaviour of a Garmin Coach race is different.

...which would probably not be entirely impossible, since a normal workout actually lets the logging continue past the end of the end of the workout definition. I have never really understood why Garmin wanted a different behaviour in a Garmin Coach workout, but at least it shows that their workout handling supports both behaviours, so they can choose.

0 xray79 over 5 years ago

Good question i'm wondering teh same as i'm doing a Half Marathon via coach Amy in 8 weeks.......In the workouts I've disabled auto laps as they caused to much vibrations and are not needed as i need the workout plan not lap times. When the workout ends indeed the watch stops recording, but when you hit stop again it starts again. I've missed a few hundred meters due to this....

What it also is not doing is auto pause when you have that enabled and you stop in the workout. After the workout in the same session auto pause works again. Which makes sense. I expect that in race auto pause is switched off as you don't want time to stop as you stop for what reason... But am not sure. I'll just turn it off in my race activity ;-)

0 chris_in_cal over 5 years ago

I have the same concern. My race is in four weeks, and Garmin coach makes strange watch face requirements, and it has some strange behavior. During my race, I would like to have it set up just the way I like. If they have a race day "workout" i have the choice of ignoring the pinnacle of me sticking with their plan "the race" or using the race and potentially having the distraction at the race.

For the sake of us users, you could suck it up and use the 'race day' workout and carefully report back to us here what it does?

0 silver11a over 5 years ago in reply to chris_in_cal

I finished the 10k plan last night. The Garmin does stop at 6.21 miles and I have mine set to lap every mile which it did. The first data screen has a large distance left and smaller average pace and total time