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Can you start PacePro (or change training plan) after starting an activity?

Daern

Today, I accidentally selected the wrong training - I used the one that Garmin had created for my marathon training plan ("recovery, 25 minutes") rather than the one I wanted to do ("weekly long run, 21km"). Unfortunately, I only realised after I started running and started to receive an endless stream of "pace too high! Pace too high!" messages.

Is there any way to switch training plan to a PacePro session (which I had created and synced to the watch) without stopping and deleting the activity? You can start a course after starting an activity, so why not a training plan?

  • 0

    You can end training and start pacepro pressing the menu button while running. The only observation here is that pacepro won’t count what you have already ran, so if it was a 21km run, you would run 21km plus what you have already ran.

  • 0 in reply to Márcio Flores

    I absolutely cannot find how to do this. Excuse me for being ignorant, but could you tell me exactly how I can end one training and start another during an activity?

  • 0 in reply to Daern

    I'm pretty sure Marcio Flores means that you have to mark your current run as "Complete," and then start a new run session using the PacePro plan you'd originally intended. That's why PacePro won't "know"/recognize that you already did some distance, and it will expect you to do the entire 21K (or whatever you set up).

  • 0 in reply to ljmrun

    Yeah, I think fundamentally the answer is "no", unless you end the current activity and start a new one (which is obviously not really a solution). I'd even settle for being able to end a training session mid-activity as a "better than nothing" option, but even this seems impossible to do. I actually got stuck on a custom training activity last week, where I'd set it up with a "cooldown period until I press the lap button", but unfortunately, this button never appeared at the end of the session. As I ended up having to run another 5k at the end to catch the train (long story!), I had to do it with my phone constantly moaning "pace too fast!" in my ear until I could finally end the activity and shut it up!

    Personally, I think it's quite reasonable that you should be able to start a PacePro session mid-run, no different than starting a course mid-way through an activity (which is something that I do quite often on bike rides) - after all, if the PacePro training session is attached to a course, loading it should be able to work out that you're already 1/3 of the way through the course, and start the PacePro session from this point. Likewise, you might start a structured pacepro session but decide, mid-run, that you want to abandon it and replace it with a managed Z2 training activity instead - an entirely legitimate thing to want to do if you're not feeling it on the day.

    I'm hoping that Garmin are still planning to invest more development time into PacePro - it's a great concept and just needs a bit of polishing around the edges to make it an awesome one.