Hi,
I switched from the Polar V800 to the new Forerunner 945 and am struggling to find a good way to get the occasional interval set in.
With the Polar watch one could either pre-define a complete workout with steps, durations, instructions and the like or alternatively just configure and start a simple interval-timer with two different timers (distance or time) repeating until you manually stop it.
With Garmin I see something very similar to the first thing, but nothing too close to the second. Yes, there is also a simple A-B-A-B-A-B... kind of interval, but it CAN NOT BE CONFIGURED AND STARTED (potentially multiple times with different interval lengths) DURING the workout.
Which is ironic because on the contrary and much to the detriment of user-interface simplicity, you can do pretty much ANYTHING else DURING a workout (access the main menu and change God-knows-which settings, change the screens for the current activity and even rename it for cryin' out loud...)
So basically when I go out on my bike
* I have to already decide before I start (and potentially realize that I have bad legs) exactly which intervals I'm gonna do
* I always have to pre-configure them
* I can only do one preconfigured set (without starting a new session)
Also as an example in swimming, I liked to set a simple interval-timer to just give me my start times for say a set of 100s and then configure a new timer for the following set of 200s. No way of doing that now as far as I can see.
Am I missing something?
if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!
I switched from the Polar V800 to the new Forerunner 945 and am struggling to find a good way to get the occasional interval set in.
With the Polar watch one could either pre-define a complete workout with steps, durations, instructions and the like or alternatively just configure and start a simple interval-timer with two different timers (distance or time) repeating until you manually stop it.
With Garmin I see something very similar to the first thing, but nothing too close to the second. Yes, there is also a simple A-B-A-B-A-B... kind of interval, but it CAN NOT BE CONFIGURED AND STARTED (potentially multiple times with different interval lengths) DURING the workout.
Which is ironic because on the contrary and much to the detriment of user-interface simplicity, you can do pretty much ANYTHING else DURING a workout (access the main menu and change God-knows-which settings, change the screens for the current activity and even rename it for cryin' out loud...)
So basically when I go out on my bike
* I have to already decide before I start (and potentially realize that I have bad legs) exactly which intervals I'm gonna do
* I always have to pre-configure them
* I can only do one preconfigured set (without starting a new session)
Also as an example in swimming, I liked to set a simple interval-timer to just give me my start times for say a set of 100s and then configure a new timer for the following set of 200s. No way of doing that now as far as I can see.
Am I missing something?
if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!