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Auto stop after workout complete

Max57547
1 month ago

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

  • 0 27 days 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 27 days 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.