Starting Workout/Interval Mid-Run

Hello,

I just purchased Fenix 7, coming from Suunto 9 Peak. While I am happy with my purchase, there is one thing that I found completely sub-par for a flagship watch. It is really not possible to start workout mid-run?? This is a serious omission from any serious running watch. Example use case: I run a hilly course and want to do my interval training as soon as I hit the flats. Or I run a course and I feel like doing the intervals more towards the end of the run. Or a complex "hill" interval - I don't know how far the hill is or on what hill on the course will I do the intervals beforehand.

Is there any workaround to this? This basically limits the watch usage for me :-(

I don't need NFC or music, I just need a proper training watch...

Thank you

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CommanderKeen over 3 years ago +2

You can't load a workout during a run, but a simple workaround is to create your workout with a warmup "until lap button press". Then you run all over the hilly course, hit "lap" when you get to the flats…

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0 CommanderKeen over 3 years ago

You can't load a workout during a run, but a simple workaround is to create your workout with a warmup "until lap button press". Then you run all over the hilly course, hit "lap" when you get to the flats and you're off to the races.

If you don't know the time/distance you'll cover for a hill workout you can just set the interval portions also to be "until lap button press" and you can call them off whenever you need/want to.

0 9893109 over 3 years ago in reply to CommanderKeen

I will try it, thanks!