Auto stop after workout complete

Hi all,

ISSUE

When a workout has been completed Garmin does not stop corrupting therefore all data. For instance, if I execute a 5 km workout, when 5 km are reached Garmin continues to register information corrupting all data. If I manually stop the workout once completed, a new lap is created anyway corrupting all data. If I insert a Warm Up and Cool Down, Garmin Connect executes a Summary of all data (Warm Up + 5 km + Cool Down), which then are also shown with all workouts under Activities, therefore providing a wrong vision of the workout (this is a real nonsense. If I execute a 5 km run I want to see Time, Avg Pace, Avg HR, etc. of the 5 km run and not the average including Warm Up and Cool Down).

WHAT IT IS RIGHT TO DO IS PRETTY LOGICAL

Garmin should stop when a workout has been completed. As a result, the workout Summary will be perfect and the workout data shown under Activities will be perfect. Suppose I have executed 100 times a 5 km run, I can easily check under Activities all my filtered 5 km workouts and immediately compare all variables (Time, Distance, Avg Pace, Avg HR, Max HR) to see how I am doing. Today that is not possible as all data is CORRUPTED. It is a nonsense, a bad design.

SOLUTIONS

1. Create an "Auto Stop" parameter so each user can choose. If Auto Stop is ON (that should be by default in my opinion), once the workout has been completed Garmin stops. So, If I execute for instance a 5 km run, once completed I will get clean data. This is so obvious that I really do not understand why GARMIN works in a way to corrupt all data. I really cannot understand this poor design.
2. Ability to DELETE A LAP in Garmin Connect.

FINAL COMMENTS

Hope this is clear enough. I tried to talk with Customer Support and it is like lunching a stone on a rubber wall. "This is the way it has been designed" and they try to end the call or chat in the fastest way as possible. No one take responsibility. No one really listen. A company should listen to their customers. My experience so far position GARMIN as an arrogant company which does not listen to their customers. Many users complains about the issue here expressed and it is still unresolved.

Please listen, please fix it.

Thanks

Best,

Massimo

Top Replies

FlowState 6 months ago +1

If it makes you feel better, many people have asked for this over the years.

[https://www.google.com/search?q=garmin+workout+auto-stop]

[https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner…
e7andy 3 months ago in reply to LeytonSpencer +1

For a Cooper test you can create a workout with a warm-up, the Cooper test and a cool down. Then you can very easy see how far you ran during the 12 minutes test. The watch will automatically log it.

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0 Max57547 6 months ago in reply to FlowState

Many thanks for your reply first of all. I see your point regarding complexity. The thing that I do not like is to have paid 500 USD and being not able to get precise time when I complete my 5 km. I know it is just 1-2 seconds more due to the manual STOP but every time I see that extra lap I am not happy with my Garmin. I guess the easiest solution might be the ability to delete the last lap / interval in Garmin Connect. Even better do not add any option but just auto stop when a workout has been completed which make sense.

0 FlowState 6 months ago in reply to Max57547

Yeah I get it, I can be pretty OCD about my data too. Maybe Garmin will make this an option one day, since it’s such a polarizing design decision. I think the best place for the option would be in the workout itself, since that’s usually created in Connect, where there’s more room for complexity.

0 Max57547 6 months ago in reply to FlowState

Agree 101%

0 LeytonSpencer 3 months ago in reply to Max57547

!00% Agree. This was how all my Garmin watches behaved. It should be an OPTION to allow the User to choose what they need. I was out for a Cooper test run this morning and although the difference between me listening for the countdown and holding my watch ready to pounce on the button and just running is not huge - it is, in my opinion an inconvenience. I want to be able to concentrate on RUNNING, not operating the watch.. :). Logged a call wot them on Friday ( 2024.08.09 )and none of the Technical Support team knew a way to work around this problem of the watch continuing to record. It is not beyond the capabilities of the Development Team to re-instate an existing feature that they have already developed in my humble opinion.

0 e7andy 3 months ago in reply to LeytonSpencer

For a Cooper test you can create a workout with a warm-up, the Cooper test and a cool down. Then you can very easy see how far you ran during the 12 minutes test. The watch will automatically log it.

0 Max57547 3 months ago in reply to LeytonSpencer

I cannot agree more with you Leyton. Unfortunately GARMIN does not listen.

0 LeytonSpencer 3 months ago in reply to Max57547

0 LeytonSpencer 3 months ago in reply to e7andy

Thanks Andy,, would I be correct in thinking that when I see my summary of activities isi g this method, it will show the actual distance at the 12 minute mark.? For example : “20240810 Cooper Test ( my title ) then in today’s example, Distance 2.41 km Total Time 12 minutes?

0 e7andy 3 months ago in reply to LeytonSpencer

You will see the total distance and time including warm-up and cool down. To see the distance for the 12 minutes part you have to look in the laps for the activity. So, it will not be displayed in the way you like, but you will automatically get the distance for the 12 minutes without any handling of the watch.

0 LeytonSpencer 3 months ago in reply to e7andy

Ah okay, might give that method a go. Thanks