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Using 840 for TrainingPeaks workouts?

Can you tell me how to make this work? The default workout screen is N.G. as it has only 3 fields and they can't be changed. I set up my own screen, but stuff isn't making sense.

"Duration" and "Time to go" seem to be the same thing. From the field descriptions, I thought "Time to go" was for the entire workout and "Duration" was for the current interval. They are both the time to go for current interval. Is it possible to see the time to go for the entire workout?

Primary target screen has a little graph on the left. What's that?

Is it possible to have cadence show a secondary target?

I have a workout with 16 steps and "Workout step" says 14. Also, when two steps repeat, it shows 1/2 and 2/2 but not which of the 16 (14) steps I'm on. Is there a way around that?

0 ortos over 1 year ago

I don't know how to avoid that, the training screen absolutely sucks, the 30 series screen was much better.

Another thing that I cannot manage is to modify a training session that I have preloaded from Training Peaks, in the 830 series I could modify each step from the GPS but now I am not able to.

Someone knows?

0 looigi over 1 year ago in reply to ortos

"training screen absolutely sucks"

Totally agree. Here's my summation of suckness:

The font size for the interval time and target are very small. I can usually see them fine but not in poor lighting or rough surfaces.

There is no countdown timer for the entire workout on this screen.

The vertical slider pointer on the left of Target lags and jumps too much to be of value. The central block is red whether I’m above or below target. Different color, perhaps yellow for below would be helpful. Have the arrow respond quicker and more smoothly, or use that real estate for something of value

The Up/down arrows to the right of 3 sec power are red whether above or below target. It would be better if the color was different, perhaps yellow for below. Also, they seem backward to me. My intuition is the arrows should indicate what I need to do. e.g If power is low, arrow points up indicating a need to increase power, and vice versa. As it is now, the arrow points up if I’m above the target and down if below the target, showing where I am rather than where I need to go.

When pausing a workout, power averaging isn’t paused so when resuming that interval, the avg power shows much lower during the rest of the interval.

For my purposes, the Workout graph is too short, longer or user settable would be good.

IDK where "Step distance" comes from. It's of no value to me during a workout. I'd rather see secondary target or something. Or, replace it with two user data fields.

Data fields:

With repeats, the "Workout step" shows which step of a repeat you’re on rather than the step number. e.g. 1/2 , 2/2, 1/3, 2/3... If the workout has 12 steps made up of 2x2, 3x2 repeats, you never see which step of 12 you’re on.

“Duration” and “Time to go” show the same thing, the interval time. There should data field for the time to go for the entire workout.

If you add a Workout target field to another data screen, it only shows my current power with the up or down arrow beside it and not the target power.

Training Plan Glimpse on the home page shows wrong days and workouts on wrong days.