When I start a training and want to take a lap manually (with the usual right down button) it doesn?t take a lap but stops the training. How can I take a lap manually during a training?
That's strange. If you have the lap button turned off under run settings, then hitting lap would just back you out of the running app and display the clock screen (with the running app still recording), but I don't think it should ever stop the workout.
Try it. I can take a lap manually while doing any activity (because I have turned lap button on), but during a training this button hasn?t this function. I have sent an email to Garmin too, we?ll see.
Do you mean specifically the strength training activity? Unlike other activities (running, cycling etc), the lap button is used to switch between sets and rest period, so for example you'd do 10 reps, [lap button], 30 seconds rest, [lap button], 10 reps etc. There's no way of marking actual laps, though I can't see what 'laps' you'd be doing in a strength routine?
1. Starting the running app ....lap button works as it should do. 2. Starting the running app, going to training/my trainings and starting a training ....if I press the lap button "training finished".
When you're doing an interval session or other planned workout, generally, pressing the lap key advances you to the next step in the session or completes the session if you are in the final step. What kind of workout do you have? Is it something like a tempo run, with one section of specified time or distance?
That's the explanation, then; if it's one single segment, hitting lap ends that segment, and therefore the activity. The main reason it's designed that way is for workouts which have sections with no duration or distance specified, for instance warm-up and cool-down at the start and end, or recoveries between hard segments; you need to tell the watch to move to the next segment, and the lap button is the least useful one during most workouts, as the segments will often be shorter than your autolap distance usually would be. Of course, it's different for something like your case.
Auto-lapping does not make sense in my case ...it is/was a special point that I wanted to measure and compare. Obviously there is no way to take manually a lap-time while doing a training. At least I know that ;-)
Not like that, no. But the steps in a workout show up as laps in Connect. So you could make a workout with say 20 steps which have no fixed time or distance and have heart-rate zone 3, press lap at your special point each time you pass it, then press Stop and save the activity when you've done your hour and a half. (I can't remember the maximum number of steps you can have, but I think if they're repeating it's a lot).
In this special case it is a pretty simple training: running for example 1,5 hours within heart-rate zone 3.
As your workout is pretty simple, why not do it as a normal run and add HR Zone 3 alert via Run Settings->Alerts. You could also add a time alert for 1.5hrs. This way the lap button works normally and no problem with stopping the activity.
