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How to add laps to Garmin Coach workout?

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over 4 years ago

Hi, I just got the Forerunner 945 and I am doing the Garmin Coach half marathon plan with Greg. My workouts so far have mostly been easy runs and the first workouts scheduled had a standard 5 min warm-up, 10 min run, 10 min additional run (press lap button if you feel like running more) and a 5 min cool down.

I have tried twice now to add laps to extend my workouts for longer time, but I seem to mess it up - so my intervals look like this when I'm done:

Warm Up 5 min

Run 15 min (goal pace)

Cool down 5 min (also with the goal pace since I don´t stop)

Run (slow pace since I have to stop to press all the buttons in order to figure out how to resume the workout and not let it stop, plus the cool down in the end)

How do I add lap correctly during the "additional" run so I still get the cool down in the end? Now my total average pace is slower than the goal pace because of this. Thank you for your help!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I think you press the lap button if you don’t want to do the extra part. So just press nothing and you will get the extra by default. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It's not clear to me as to why you would choose an adaptive plan like Garmin Coach as your training plan, then promptly override it with your own high intensity work.

    I'll happily admit that I don't know enough about run training, and will use the expertise of the various coaches with Garmin Coach for my training plan.

    And I totally get that many people want to design their own plan, or import it from 3rd party resources like Training Peaks

    I can even understand rearranging things within the Garmin Coach plan because you don't have enough time for a long run that day, are feeling fatigued, etc.

    But the logic of wanting to use an adaptive plan, and then ignoring it in favor of your own planning escapes me.

    All that aside, many Garmin Coach workouts have an explicit optional step to extend your run if you want. And if that is not enough, the Cool Down step has no specific pace target - you can just run this at your goal pace if you want. And at the end of the workout, you only need hit the start/stop button to Resume your workout. This is the biggest and easiest button on the watch to hit, and Resume is the default option - I can hit this button even at full pace without looking at my watch.