I follow the guide Creating a Custom Workout on Garmin Connect and Interval Workouts creating a Fartlek Run workout. When I try to do this workout in my watch, I need to choose an activity for this workout. However, there is no running option for this workout in the last step, is there anything I miss?
I guess I know the reason, it is because I set the activity type to Custom. When I create a Run type workout, I can see Running option in the last step. Now the problem is how can I edit the activity type of an existing workout?
Now the problem is how can I edit the activity type of an existing workout?
You cannot do it from the UI (in either the Connect website or app).
You can do it using a Chrome extension, if you are comfortable editing JSON files.
1) Install the Share your Garmin Connect workout Chrome extension
2) Install VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
3) In Chrome, open Connect and navigate to your workout.
The extension from 1) will add a Download button to the workout page (in the upper right hand corner)
4) Click the Download button
This will download a JSON file with a name like "Run-Workout.json"
5) Open the JSON file in VS Code
6) Press CTRL-SHIFT-P / CMD-SHIFT-P to open the command palette and select "Format Document"
7) Look for the following text near the top of the file:
"sportType": { "sportTypeId": 3, "sportTypeKey": "other", "displayOrder": 12 },
8) Replace the text from 7) with
"sportType": { "sportTypeId": 1, "sportTypeKey": "running", "displayOrder": 1 },
9) Save the file
10) Go back to Connect in Chrome and navigate to the workout list
The extension from 1) will add an Import Workout button to the workout list page
11) Click Import Workout and select the file you exported and changed
This will create a new workout which is just like the workout you exported, but with a type of Running.
