Pacepro Strategy

Hi folks

it doesn’t look like anyone has mentioned this here before. You can load a course in Connect and then generate a pacepro strategy which is great for trail runs as it adjusts your pace depending on terrain and how hard you want to go at the hills so that you stay on track for a target time. I think it’s a really nice feature but it doesn’t seem to allow you to send these to the instinct watch? I’m not sure which watches it does work on but it seems like an odd decision? I can build a workout in connect which does the same thing using the pace info from the pacepro strategy but this is really tedious especially for longer runs e.g. trail marathon means you have to build a workout with 26 individual mile segments - even worse if you use km! It also isn’t as flexible. This seems like a strange thing for Garmin to have done as all the infrastructure to support this seems to be there already and it would presumably just need a software update?

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0 Dan.Boilermaker over 4 years ago

PacePro works with my son's FR245 but not my Instinct. I'd love to use the feature also. Is strange that you can setup on Connect even though one doesn't have a capable device in one's device list.

0 6399314 over 4 years ago

It would be nice to have this option! I do believe it can be done with a software update!

0 3619127 over 3 years ago in reply to Dan.Boilermaker

I’ve gotten PacePro to work (in a much less pretty way) when I do my Garmin coach workouts. When I start the portion of the work out that has a pace goal the little PacePro meter shows up. I’m not sure if it can be used outside of the workout plans. Perhaps if you create a workout with a pace goal, but I’ve never done that before.

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago in reply to 3619127

You can create your own workouts using pace as the metric. The pace "bar" will show up on the Instinct during your created workout just like the coach planned workouts. Once you've created a workout, you can send to your device or put the workout on the calendar and it will sync with your watch through GC (wireless) or Garmin Express (wired). This method mimiks the simple PacePro distance plans.

The obvious advantage of PacePro is being able to use a specific activity or pre-planned route that includes the elevation data and then the pace is automatically calculated for the terrain.

0 4906382 over 3 years ago

It's called market segmentation. Axing features that the device is perfectly capable of having in order to force you into buying more devices. Instinct is not a specialized "running watch" so omitting pacepro is to be expected unfortunately

0 3854086 over 3 years ago in reply to 4906382

I think you’re right but it does seem more useful to trail runners who might be more likely to own an Instinct? You can set them up manually as pointed out above but it’s a real pain for long runs.

0 4906382 over 3 years ago in reply to 3854086

Yeah, so they could enable it but only for trail running.. If they ever do. Also if you set up the segments manually there is a big disadvantage that the watch won't calculate new strategy based on your performance as is the case for the watches that natively support pacepro..