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Manually Split Workout becomes a weird unstructured workout

I ran a workout today where I did 3 x 3 miles with a roughly 1/4 mile jog. I do it on a loop that is ~ .73 miles and split every lap plus the additional distance to get to 3 miles. However looking at my workout after it decided my first 4 splits were a "warm up" then the last .09 to get to 3 miles was my first interval. then my 1/4 mile jog + my first 3 .73 laps were my first "recovery" and so forth. I get that garmin has a structured and unstructured interval setting which the manual states that you go to run->intervals->unstructured intervals start that, but why would it automatically try and guess what my workout intention is if I do not go into that interval setting or use one of the workouts I have loaded onto my watch? I would ideally like to disable that unless I specifically go into that setting, although I can at least get the specific splits on garmin connect (but not my watch)

This is what I am talking about:

  • Yeah, this is the result of Garmin's auto-interval categorization feature which happens when you press the Lap button to create manual laps, and the watch detects that you ran some of the laps at different speeds. Happens to me whenever I run strides at the end of a steady state run (pressing Lap between each one) or when I press Lap manually during group interval workouts or track intervals (I haven't used track mode yet.)

    Here's a Garmin support article about it (unfortunately there really isn't much more information): https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=QF6ojxsT3523NqpQsqZhT6

    Unfortunately it can't be turned off.

    I agree that this is pretty annoying when you want to look at a run on your watch, and instead of seeing your auto/manual laps, you see intervals.

    It is somewhat useful for interval workouts when you press Lap manually (as opposed to using a preprogrammed interval workout on your watch.) I assume this is the exact use case for the feature.

  • I totally get that, but imo it should only happen when you specifically go to training-> unstructured intervals. I don't understand why that would happen during a normal run. Coming from previous versions of garmin this seems like a baffling choice to just automatically do it for any run activity that you split