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User Guide for Training Plans?

alexpez
over 7 years ago
Hi,

The 16 week deadline to my first marathon is coming up, so I've decided to use a training plan from the Garmin website along with my 935 to keep track of what I'm doing.

Via the Garmin Connect website I've added the Marathon training plan to my calendar (Training/Trainging Plans/Find a Training Plan/Marathon). Using Garming Connect on my Iphone I sent that training plan to my 935, and today began the plan.

I wasn't sure whether I needed to do anything else, but had read about issues with AUTOLAP ON (I usually run with Autolap set to 1km), so I went into the Run menu and disabled AUTOLAP.

Not sure how to start the training plan, I clicked the Start/Stop button from the clock screen and the watch displayed "Today:W01D2a-EasyRun" (ignore the d2 bit, couldn't get out yesterday for d1). I selected DO WORKOUT, and started to run for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, the watch told me to warm down until I pressed the LAP button (BACK button?), which I did after a few minutes. What surprised me was that the clock was then still running for my run session. This confuses me a little - If pressing the lap button at the end of the warm up is supposed to mark the end of the session, why doesn't the clock stop?

I've noticed in the past when telling the watch I wanted to run 5 or 10km that the clock continues to run after completing the distance, and this confuses me a little - and messes up average pace etc if I don't hit the start/stop button at the exact same time as the distance completes. Am I doing something wrong in this and the above training plan case?

After hitting the LAP (back) button at the end of the warm down in W01D2a-EasyRun, after the jingle, and after realising the clock was still running, I eventually hit start/stop, and saved the run. I have synced with my iphone and the run has uploaded.

Following this I expected the watch to show W01D2b-Intervals when I next clicked Start/Stop from the clock screen, but it doesnt. It still displays "Today:W01D2a-EasyRun", with the options DO WORKOUT, VIEW, and SKIP. If I select SKIP it just takes me to the standard RUN interface showing the timer and pace, battery, GPS, phone and heart rate icons.

How do I get the next part of the training plan to come up on the watch? Did I not finish the first part correctly?

Anyone else following the Garmin/Full Potential plans at the moment?

Cheers for any help,

Alex
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Hi! Congrats on training for a marathon! I still use auto lap when doing workouts like this. You are doing everything correctly as the watch was designed to work with a scheduled workout. Yes, you have to press the stop button at the very end and that is done purposely because if, say, you were done with your workout but you were still a half mile away from your car or home you could keep running and record the extra miles. Then you stop it when you reach your destination. If it stopped when your workout stopped then you'd have to start a new run activity to record the extra distance. Older model watches worked the way that you thought it was supposed to, and I thought so too from my 920xt days, but now I like the way they have upgraded that on the 935.

    As for being able to see your next scheduled workout, you won't see it until the day that it is on your calendar. Even if you have completed today's scheduled workout you won't see tomorrow's until that day.

    Good luck!
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    I agree with what Linda said about the older v newer watches and how they handle the end of a structured workout. You can press stop, or you can let it continue to log the extra miles as you run home, giving you a more accurate assessment of your overall training load.

    If you turn off autolap, then a "lap" will be each interval of the workout. This allows you to analyze your performance during each interval.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    How do I get the next part of the training plan to come up on the watch? Did I not finish the first part correctly?


    You finished it correctly, I think. Are you stating that you had a second workout on the same day? That's what I'm assuming. Either way, to get to the next scheduled run you would need to hold down the middle button (left hand side) from the Run menu. From the menu that comes up select Training, then Training Calendar, then find the run you want to do. Hope this helps.

    I haven't been able to find any good documentation and have pretty much learned everything the hard way through trial and error. You should have it mastered once you finish your marathon training.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Ok, so I misunderstood what you were saying about the next scheduled workout. I put a marathon training plan on my calendar and notice that it actually has more than one workout on some of the days. So I start the day 1 workout and complete it. Then I go back into the Run activity profile to start the next workout of that day and I DO see the next workout, not the first one that I already finished. But once I complete that second one of that day it doesn't show me the next day's workout yet, it stays on the one I just completed and I imagine I won't see the next day's workout until the next day.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    You can always go into your training calendar on the watch and see ahead for the entire training plan and choose your workout.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Thanks all!

    My training plan is the level 3 Marathon plan (non HR based), and includes two sessions on most days. The watch kept showing me the 1st of the days sessions if i just clicked START/STOP from the clock screen - "Today:W01D2a-EasyRun", despite me having done that earlier in the day. So I took the advice above and went into the Training Calendar on the watch last night in order to start the second session of the day "W01D2b-Intervals" (fun!).

    With regards to ending a session, I'll use the example of yesterdays intervals - 10 minute warm up, then it went into 5x 5min threshold with 1min rest, then it went into cooldown, and asked me to press the LAP button to end warmdown. The thing is, I warmed down en route to my house, so wanted that to end when I got home. Could I press START/STOP rather than LAP to end it? Would that mess up the training session that is in there?
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    With regards to ending a session, I'll use the example of yesterdays intervals - 10 minute warm up, then it went into 5x 5min threshold with 1min rest, then it went into cooldown, and asked me to press the LAP button to end warmdown. The thing is, I warmed down en route to my house, so wanted that to end when I got home. Could I press START/STOP rather than LAP to end it? Would that mess up the training session that is in there?


    Yes, definitely! There's no point in pressing the lap button at the end of the last split, because you'll still have to press the stop button after that to stop the workout, and the time between pressing the two buttons will count as a separate lap. Just press the stop button and you'll have your final split time.