Device: Garmin Forerunner 945
Workout: RHR22 (Hill Repetitions Run)
App: Stryd | Workout App
I’ve used 8020 in the past a few years ago for marathon training and reasonably familiar with the principles, but have recently returned to it more seriously for Triathlon using Power for running and cycling. Today I tried the RHR22 workout. I noted that the workout suggested pausing the Workout after the warmup and before the hill reps.
I knew where I wanted to do the hill reps and had a rough plan on timings so as to get there about the same time as the hill-rep section after 10 minutes of Z1 and Z2 warmup. As it was, I still had a long way to go so I stopped the Garmin until I reached the hill-rep area. I did this by pressing START/STOP button while following the workout in the Stryd Workout App. I continued (running ‘blind’ now) at what my RPE told me was about Z2 until the hill-reps area then resumed the workout.
When I looked later I could see where I’d paused and the map shows a straight line between the two points where I stopped/restarted the workout.
Workout: https://home.trainingpeaks.com/athlete/workout/Y2SFGNBBQJTR64EDUC4WUTBEY4
My question is, what is the best method for dealing with a situation where you’re not going to get to the place you’d planned for you’re next bit of the workout in time? Or how best to Pause a workout. I’m not sure what happens if I press Lap instead of Start/Stop in the Stryd app and I couldn’t find any documentation.
I should add this isn’t a big deal. I’m really just curious whether others have had this issue and how they deal with it. I really like the simplicity of the Stryd App (I appreciate this is probably more of Stryd App question than an 8020 question) and in future once I get more familiar with the workouts and best places to do them I’ll make sure I’m at Ground Zero earlier rather than later so that I can have a tidier map trace.
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