How to save the time for my distance Target?

JohnJ said:

Is there a way to pull that time up after I get back from my run, or do I need to memorize it when it pops up on my watch?

You can either enable and use the Lap button, or marking the lap through the Stop menu after the 5k, or you can use the Auto-Lap feature - either keeping the default 1km laps and summing up the 5 laps, or setting the auto-lap distance to 5km.

You can also use the Trim function in Garmin Connect Web. Set it into the Distance mode, and set the distance to 5km. The advantage is (unlike with the laps, or with your alert), that you can also move the start of the section to the place where you've been already running faster, excluding so the warm-up. The trimming is reversible, so you can always restore the original, and trim it as many times as you need. In fact you do not even need to save the trimming result, after having seen the times.

I actually thought of the lap button today, but I still need to add the lap times, and it's not quite right since I'm hitting the button just after I hit 5k, and then (I think) it throws off my next mile autolap, because it's now counting the next lap as a mile from 3.1 miles.

Maybe I'll try setting autolap to 5km. I like seeing my mile paces tho. (While I know what a 5k is, the unit kilometer means nothing to me.) OTOH, I'm doing all heart rate zone running at the moment, so pace doesn't actually *mean* anything, except as a reference.

The thing of it is, the watch tells me when I hit 5k and shows me the time, and then briefly shows it to me again after I'm done running, but then there's no way to actually get back to it again.

Oh well.

I'll try a few things and see what I like best.

Thanks,

John

As far as I remember, the manually marked lap does not interfer with the auto-laps. It means the 1 mile laps will stay where they should be, regardless when you tag the manual lap. But it is a while I used it the last time, so I may be wrong.

Turns out you can trim in the app as well.