Pausing a workout without pausing the activity

Yeah intervals outside is a bit difficult. You can skip a step or repeat a step through the menu. It's quite fiddly though, quite a lot of clicks:

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/edge530/EN-US/GUID-DA139DEC-5B83-410E-ADF5-51880B22FA4B.html

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Using Lap Button Press as the duration for recovery intervals can be useful if you need  to extend the recovery, or you aren't sure how long it will take you to get back to the start position (eg. if you are doing hill repeats).

You can pause a step in the workout on the 530 by using the context button.

While on the workout page push the context menu button (top) right.

This brings up the following menu options.

These allow you to pause the current workout step. Go back a step or forward a step.

If you scroll down there is also an option to see the step notes.

Thanks for the great tips! I think however that it wouldn't be difficult for Garmin just adding the option in the context menu  of pausing the workout while the activity is being still recorded. surely many users would appreciate it.

Just a suggestion

The above feature is currently implemented on the 530.

1. Yes.I noticed that. However what we are asking for is just one option to pause the interval without stopping recording the activity. Now, the option is to go back to the beginning of the interval and press the lap bottom to jump to the next interval when ready. Or to design the workout using the press lap option for changing interval as is available in training peaks

Nice tip, thanks.
But won't "Pause Step" make the overall timer/recording pause as well?

No. The activity keeps recording