PacePro strategies not suitable for slower runners

I have just tried to set up a PacePro strategy for the recent CCC 2019 course(just a hypothetical). I have noticed that compared to the official cutoff time it only allows "crazy fast" paces to be inserted. The official cut off for CCC is >26 hours, and puting this course into PacePro it alows only like 15h with an avarege pace of 8,12 min/km. Now< i have no doubt that there are those who can manage this tempo up and down for 100 K, however I think it should be more flexible. Also I am not sure if it realy takes into consideration the differences of up and down- it seems pretty even for the whole 100 K? Any thoughts as to what am I doing wrong? Apart for being to slow....

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drkglb over 4 years ago +2

That's a good point. Pacepro is a great feature for trail running, since it takes elevation in consideration... But if it's not possible to use low pace it's completely pointless. I have run a skyrunning…
martowl over 4 years ago +2

I do 100 mile races and need slower paces. I am doing very well if I average 18 min/mile. My 6XPro arrives Thursday and I have been using Suuntos for many years. This is one of the main reasons I wanted…
martowl over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

hi moe67er. You may recognize me from Suunto forums. A real bummer as this was something I would have been interested in. Seems that PacePro is unsuitable for general trail racing. Wonder if Garmin will…

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0 Former Member over 4 years ago

Same for me. Tried to setup PacePro for a 5,5km and 1000 vertical meters track, but 8:40min is the slowest pace I can choose which is really tough for me. I would need some slower options.

0 martowl over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

hi moe67er. You may recognize me from Suunto forums. A real bummer as this was something I would have been interested in. Seems that PacePro is unsuitable for general trail racing. Wonder if Garmin will change this. If I remember when the original fenix came out there were issues with slower paces and running events as well.

0 nmyeti over 4 years ago

I just selected a course and started building a pace pro plan. I can go up to 14:00/mile

0 philipshambrook over 4 years ago

There's already been a couple of other comments about the duration of PacePro plans. Best to follow that up with Garmin Support. It's a new option so possibly longer durations/distance have been overlooked.

If you put in a course with elevation then you get the option to make the hills easier/harder resulting in a more realistic assessment of pacing up/down the hills.

0 drkglb over 4 years ago

That's a good point. Pacepro is a great feature for trail running, since it takes elevation in consideration... But if it's not possible to use low pace it's completely pointless. I have run a skyrunning race this summer (42 km, 3500m positive climb) with pace sometime as low as 25:00 per km :) I understant that's a bit extreme but it would be interesting at least to go down to 15:00 or 20:00 min/km (which depending on the elevation can be not so bad !)

0 markdotai over 4 years ago in reply to nmyeti

14:00min/mi is equivalent to 8:45min/km - so the same as the others

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to martowl

Generally pacing by the older GPS chips in the Fenix was a mess. Yesterday I tried it out and I put the PacePro Datafield beside a „current pace“ datafield on a 6-field activity watchface. The PacePro field shows the planned pace and the current pace, when I understood correctly. But current pace of the PacePro and the Pace field were different values. So it seems there are still some bugs or misunderstandings on my side^^

0 nmyeti over 4 years ago in reply to markdotai

markdotai said:
8:45min/km

Sorry in the original post i missed the /km

0 martowl over 4 years ago

I do 100 mile races and need slower paces. I am doing very well if I average 18 min/mile. My 6XPro arrives Thursday and I have been using Suuntos for many years. This is one of the main reasons I wanted the Garmin. Not sure I will open the box now.

0 nmyeti over 4 years ago in reply to martowl

Seems like a reasonable request to make to the developers. Guessing eventually there will be a Fenix6 email address, but until then i'd email [email protected]