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Feb 2020
9:51am, 21 Feb 2020
10,401 posts
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larkim
I did my first intervals in a while last night so this is topical for me. For consistency I record and save a warm up / cool down separately, then hit lap for every effort and every recovery, and record the whole thing as one run. So last night was 4.8m which included 5x1k (so about 3.1m) and then 5x450m-ish recoveries.
I'm fastidious about making sure I record the final recovery as part of the run too, rather than just hitting the final rep and then hitting stop before i start a new run for the cooldown. I do that mainly to see if the recovery for the final one looks the "same" as the recoveries in between, in case I've pushed that final interval too hard.
And I always do the intervals on the same loop of residential road which is just over 400m around and as flat as I can find (there's no track within sensible distance).
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Feb 2020
9:56am, 21 Feb 2020
1,719 posts
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RunningRonnie
Cool, thanks Larkim. Just had a peek and that looks better than what I logged. Will try that next time.
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Feb 2020
10:05am, 21 Feb 2020
10,403 posts
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larkim
For me, whatever way I record it the key is to do it the same every time! Early on in running I would record each rep as a run, save it, then not record the recovery. But I just ended up with far too many intervals as individual activities, and I couldn't look at what recovery pace I was doing as I didn't record those. I settled on the approach above when I did my first P&D plan, and now I'm on about my 5th or 6th I've got some good data to compare with, which I like.
If I was doing standing recoveries, I wouldn't use the manual lapping, I'd just hit "stop", and then restart the watch when the next rep started, as there doesn't seem much point in recording the GPS point wandering around my stationary location for 2 minutes.
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Feb 2020
10:14am, 21 Feb 2020
3,373 posts
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K5 Gus
larks - if doing standing recoveries and you hit "stop" rather than "lap" then you do not get the split for each rep, just a total time for all reps - pretty sure that's not what you would want
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Feb 2020
10:41am, 21 Feb 2020
10,404 posts
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larkim
My watch laps when I hit stop I think? Or maybe I'm misremembering, last time I did standing recoveries was in a 2x2 tempo, so perhaps I just hit stop the moment the autolap hit the mile marker anyway, so it would have recorded a lap anyway.
Thinking about it, that sounds right - otherwise those who pause runs to cross at lights etc would end up with a lap recorded. In which case, I should revise my post above - manual lap and then stop is what I would do for standing recoveries, or use autolap if I'm happy for the watch to be in control of the length of the rep.
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Feb 2020
10:46am, 21 Feb 2020
1,724 posts
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RunningRonnie
Right, OK... my only question then is when I hit start do I also need to hit lap.
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Feb 2020
10:58am, 21 Feb 2020
1,626 posts
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auburnette
I just program the workout into my Garmin so for example today:
auto laps after 1.5 mile w/u
auto laps after 1km distance (the effort)
auto laps after 2 mins has elapsed (recovery)
repeat x 4
autolaps after the last 1km interval
1.5 mile c/d
This should yield a full record of the splits which will show as:
1 mile
0.5
0.62
[whatever you ran in recovery]
x 4
1 mile
0.5
If your garmin is set up to auto lap every 1 mile its best to disable this temporarily for the session as it can interfere with the splits.
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Feb 2020
11:03am, 21 Feb 2020
25,584 posts
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Wriggling Snake
If you have an interval set based on time press your lap button at that time.
If you have an interval based on distances press yourlap button at the distances.
If you have an interval session based on distance with timed rest, press your lap button at the distance and then the time.
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Feb 2020
11:18am, 21 Feb 2020
10,405 posts
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larkim
My watch doesn't do clever stuff like interval programming natively* (version 1 of the Garmin Vivoactive). So this is what I would press if I was doing 3x1m intervals with jogged recoveries (like last night).
Button presses in bold, consequent action in italics (fingers crossed I've got the formatting correct!)
Start Start the first fast rep
Manual lap Stop the first fast rep and start the first recovery jog
Manual lap Stop the recovery jog and start the second fast rep
Manual lap Stop the second fast rep and start the second recovery jog
Manual lap Stop the second recovery jog and start the third fast rep
Manual lap Stop the third fast rep and start the third recovery jog
Stop Stop the whole activity and save
For me, if I was doing standing recoveries on my watch I would have to do the following:
Start Start the first fast rep
Manual lap & stop Stop the first fast rep and start the first standing recovery
Start Start the second fast rep
Manual lap & stop Stop the second fast rep and start the second standing recovery
Start Start the third fast rep
Manual lap & stop Stop the third fast rep then save the run
*There are apps that I could download to the watch to programme some of this stuff, but I've tried it and it is convoluted!!
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Feb 2020
1:00pm, 21 Feb 2020
1,627 posts
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auburnette
How would you know that you've spent the right time in standing recovery if you're stopping it, though - does the watch still display time that is elapsing even when you've paused? Or refer to another clock/watch?
Personally I would just use manual laps without pausing if i couldn't program it in, so the same as larkim's first example. I tend to wander around a bit during standing recovery.
Str*va is a bit annoying for recording/displaying standing recovery intervals as i think it automatically disregards true pauses where you didn't cover any distance. Fetch doesn't, though 
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