Scheduling eat/drink moments, alarm during activity

I managed to set something up during marathon training but iirc it only worked during a run, not during a workout. No idea why it wouldn't work during a workout but it seems that's how it's set up. 

How did you do that during the race? Because that is what I want to do.

Unfortunately the drink / eat alerts don't work if you are doing a structured workout, only works if you are doing a normal run. This has been like this for years - not going to change as they don't' listen .

Its the same for the 'smart' food and drink alerts on the Edge series (which I think is brilliant) - why these are not on the forerunner / fenix devices - crazy

I just ran it as a run, not a race/workout. Only found out when I set a long run up as a workout. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to sort out but whether Garmin want to is another matter. 

MAybe we do not understand each other. It is not a training or work out session that I want FR955 to warn me, but just a Marathon, which I record as normal running activity. So if you say that is the only way to do that, I am wondering how to set up.

if there is no active workout in progress then the default alerts within the run profile SHOULD fire:
Run > Run Settings > Alerts > Add New

thx, you confirmed I took the right steps to set an alarm. I put in a new one and will see what happens next run.

Ah right, so on the watch go to run - run settings - alerts and set it up from there. You can set up as many as you like I think and just activate whatever you need for that particular run. For instance I had drink every 10 minutes and gel every 7 miles but only used it for long runs and the actual marathon. 

Just like the way I want to :-) So you can create them on beforehand, but each time you are going to run you need to activate right?