Garmin - Workouts with More Than 99 Interval Repeats

How to create a Garmin Workout with more than 99 interval repeats:

1. Cable the Garmin device to your computing device (e.g., a laptop)
2. (Note: you might optionally have to first confirm the connection in Garmin Express and access Garmin Connect via that application?)
   
3. Logon to Garmin Connect (https://connect.garmin.com/)
4. From the Home screen, access the left-hand menu and select "Training & Planning" > Workouts
   
5. On the Workouts screen:
1. Select "Run" from dropdown list "Select a Workout Type"
2. Select button "Create a Workout"
6. Edit the Workout name (e.g., Run Workout - 120 Intervals)
7. Edit the Workout using button "Add a Repeat" on the right-hand side
1. Each Repeat section allows for 2-40 intervals
2. Select Edit Step for the Run step
3. Set Duration > Type = Time
   
4. Set the time (e.g., to 2:30)
5. Select button Done when finished
6. Repeat #3-#6 for the Recovery step (e.g., setting the time to 1:00)
8. Repeat adding "Add a Repeat" sections in increments of 40 repetitions until the desired number is reached (e.g., 40 x 3 = 120 repeats)
   
9. Delete any Workout steps you do not want in the Workout (e.g., the first "Run" step of 1.0 mile distance, or the Warm up/Cool down)
10. Select button Save Workout when finished making edits
11. Select button "Send to Device" to update the Garmin device
12. On the popup window, once again select button "Send to Device" (this may need to start Garmin Express)
13. Done
    

To delete a Workout: 

1. Cable the Garmin device to your computing device (e.g., a laptop)
2. (Note: you might optionally have to first confirm the connection in Garmin Express and access Garmin Connect via that application?)
   
3. Logon to Garmin Connect (https://connect.garmin.com/)
4. From the Home screen, access the left-hand menu and select "Training & Planning" > Workouts
   
5. On the Workouts screen:
1. Select the "shishkabob" (three vertical dots) menu > Delete Workout
2. Select button "Delete" on the popup window
6. The screen will display message "Your workout was successfully deleted."
   

Use:

For marathons, I run/walk in 2:30/1:00 increments. I use a Garmin Forerunner 965 smartwatch, for reference. I cable it to a laptop USB-C port. The built-in user interface allows for up to 99 intervals. The built-in Structured Interval repeats of 1-99 work fine--for me--for roughly 24-26 mile runs. I have a 28-mile run however that I am not confident I can complete in under 99 run/walk intervals, thus the desire to manually create a new workout with multiple x40 structured interval sections.

For completeness, here is how to edit the number of repeats for Structured Intervals training manually (i.e., up to 99 repeats): Select upper-right button "Start/Stop", then Run. Select the Run settings menu via the left-hand shishkabob menu (vertical three dots; i.e., the "Up" button on the left), then > Training > Intervals > Structured Repeats, then Edit Workout (via the right-hand button Start/Stop), then edit setting "Repeat", which supports values from 1-99. 

Hat tip:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/sports-fitness/f/forerunner-230-235/120960/greater-than-99-intervals