run/walk a track with intervals on FR955S?

Hi,

I'm training very irregularly and i have a bad memory, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question.I usually want to run 5:1 intervals (5 minutes running, 1 minute walking) but i always have trouble figuring out how to set it up.

I have a specific track that i ran a couple of days ago and it automatically started interval training, when i started it. How did i do that? Where do i find those settings?

This saturday i was out running another, brand new track i just created. That did not have interval training, so i went back home and wanted to change it, but couldn't find the settings for it.

I had to create a training session with 5 minutes running and 1 minute walking and then repeat it 20 times, then start the training on my watch and then choose the track. That just sounds like... extra steps.

Additionally, when the 20 repeated intervals we're finished (i ran 21,99 km for the first time in my life, yay!) i feared the intervals would stop towards the end of my run, but fortunately it continued??? What's that all about? The only thing that changed was the vibration; When the training session was ongoing, i got 5 vibrations to indicate that i had to change between running and walking, but when the training session was finished (and i was still out on my run) it just changed to one vibration.

I am very confused and i hope someone with more experience with the FR955 can point me towards how to properly setup interval training on a specific track and maybe tell me what has been going on with my watch.

Thank you in advance.

Software version Bundle: 23.20

0 blas 2 days ago

I'm assuming the first 5:1 intervals that happened to you "automatically" could be the daily suggestion, but don't worry about it.

The best way (in my opinion to create) ad-hoc interval training is to pick your running activity, could be just running, trail run, track run etc then press up button to access the menu, then choose training>intervals>structured repeats. There with the start/stop button you have the option to edit your intervals. Should be pretty straight forward from there. If you want warmup to be included in the workout just select the appropriate toggle. That way if you start your workout your watch won't go to intervals right away but will start them after pressing the lap(bottom right) button giving you time to warm up.

When you finish your workout the activity isn't automatically stopped, it just continues as a run without a workout until you stop it manually. That one vibration I'm assuming is the autolap feature set by default to 1km or 1mi.