How to create a Garmin Workout with more than 99 interval repeats:
- Cable the Garmin device to your computing device (e.g., a laptop)
- (Note: you might optionally have to first confirm the connection in Garmin Express and access Garmin Connect via that application?)
- Logon to Garmin Connect (https://connect.garmin.com/)
- From the Home screen, access the left-hand menu and select "Training & Planning" > Workouts
- On the Workouts screen:
- Select "Run" from dropdown list "Select a Workout Type"
- Select button "Create a Workout"
- Edit the Workout name (e.g., Run Workout - 120 Intervals)
- Edit the Workout using button "Add a Repeat" on the right-hand side
- Each Repeat section allows for 2-40 intervals
- Select Edit Step for the Run step
- Set Duration > Type = Time
- Set the time (e.g., to 2:30)
- Select button Done when finished
- Repeat #3-#6 for the Recovery step (e.g., setting the time to 1:00)
- Repeat adding "Add a Repeat" sections in increments of 40 repetitions until the desired number is reached (e.g., 40 x 3 = 120 repeats)
- 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)
- Select button Save Workout when finished making edits
- Select button "Send to Device" to update the Garmin device
- On the popup window, once again select button "Send to Device" (this may need to start Garmin Express)
- Done
To delete a Workout:
- Cable the Garmin device to your computing device (e.g., a laptop)
- (Note:
you might optionally have to first confirm the connection in Garmin
Express and access Garmin Connect via that application?)
- Logon to Garmin Connect (https://connect.garmin.com/)
- From the Home screen, access the left-hand menu and select "Training & Planning" > Workouts
- On the Workouts screen:
- Select the "shishkabob" (three vertical dots) menu > Delete Workout
- Select button "Delete" on the popup window
- 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.
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