I have discovered several problems using workouts and structured repeats on the Garmin 255
1. Structured repeats:
If you edit a structured repeat after selecting an activity it does not update and keeps the old settings. If you exit the activity and then re-enter it it updates.
2. Workouts:
a) If I create a running workout in the phone app and send to the device it says my device is not compatible so you think it has failed. Despite this the workout does end up on the device, but without a reassuring confirmatory tick animation. Workouts based on other activities seem to work OK, such as pilates (interestingly I didn't notice this problem until I downloaded a pilates app)
b) I did this on the track with a simple six repetitions of 1200m + 400m, the active phase with a target range of pace, free for the recovery phase. Bizarrely, after the first active phase, it went into another identical active phase and I had to use the lap key to advance to recovery. This happened each step. I have checked the workout and it only has an active and recovery phase in the repeats. The fit file produced is corrupt. I get an absurdly high average pace which exceeds the peak pace. When observing the graph of pace vs time, all looks OK. When observing pace vs. distance, there are bizarre artefacts with long overshoots after the end of the active phase, all at the same pace after which the distance actually rewinds for the recovery phase. I presume this extra artifactual distance is increasing calculated overall pace.
I am using a custom data field but it functioned normally during the workout and no error log file was produced (YAML)
c) If selecting a workout from the race appli ALL custom data fields fail to run with the IQ app error.
It leaves me asking, who provides the software quality assurance role at Garmin. I would love to meet him or her and find out what the problems are! I am a retired former embedded systems software engineer. We used to thoroughly test software. I don't think I would have been retained if my performance had resulted in the above.
P.S. you have my permission to view my data on your server in order to investigate these issues.
