Garmin 910XT Setup
Hello Team. My lovely wife got me the 910XT for my birthday this year. I am working through all of the mode settings and was just curious what the veteran users have found most useful for their displays for each sport based on standard EN workouts. I am currently using a wired PowerTap so cannot send watts to the watch yet.
What displays do you use for run workouts?
Bike workouts?
I thought I had seen a similar thread before but could not find it.
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Run: elapsed time, pace, heartrate, distance
(be sure to set the Pace parameter to average per 1/4 mile as it is the closest you are gonna get to real-time pace. I believe by default it usesmthe average per mile which can be misleading, esp on a hilly course).
Bike: elapsed time, speed, heartrate, distance.
Have fun, it's an amazing piecemof equipment
The feature I have enjoyed the most in the OS is the "workout" feature which you can either program on the watch but also on Garmin Connect then send to the watch. FANTASTIC! Never again will I ever go to the track to run intervals. I pretty much program all my runs for the week and then just send them to the watch on the day of.
Bike: Power and time elapsed or distance depending on the workout. I have a powertap wireless so the garmin is a backup in case powertap fails. It's also nice to listen to the garmin beeps and feel the vibrate for interval prompts.
1: pace, distance, cadence (I've got a footpod)
2: pace, distance, hr
That way I can just look down to see the screens and see the data as I need it; but still seeing pace in the nice big upper half of the display.
1.) Main run screen - Pace, Total Time, HR, Distance
2.) Interval screen - Pace, Cadence, Interval Distance (or HR), Interval Time
3.) Recap screen - Calories, Average Pace, Distance
I use the main screen for warm up and cool down. I also use the main to track long run. Then I just jump screens to do my intervals. The third screen is nice to review your numbers either at the end of during the run
Your workout was sent to the ANT and you just need to click the ANT icon (view status) and pair with the device....I wondered the same thing myself the first time!
Another thing is whether you need to know what time it is and whether you care about heart rate. For swimming, I need to know what time it is, because the pool I swim at closes at a certain very precise time, so I need to know how much time I have left and for whatever reason I can't stomach wearing two watches. :-) For running/riding it's less important for me, but in part I don't mind wearing two watches as much. (I tend to have to squeeze in a reasonable number of my workouts, so I need to know what time it is fairly precisely so I can get back to pick up kids.)
That said, consider windows that look like this:
Pool swimming:
1) Interval time (so you can glance mid-interval), Last interval time (so you can see how fast you just finished your last interval), Interval distance (so you can glance during your 500 to see where you are), and time of day. A second window can lave something else you're interesting in tracking like "last interval stroke rate" or "last interval efficiency" and total time and total distance.
Running:
My primary window has current pace and lap pace on top. The current pace is a little noisy, so the lap pace serves two purposes...you can use it for real intervals, and when "just running" or racing I set the watch to auto-lap every mile, so that I get a feel for my pace averaged over a relatively short time of a few minutes on average. My last two windows have lap time and HR. On a second window, I have total time and total distance and cadence and time of day
Riding:
I still primarily look at my Edge device that has more windows, but the key thing here is to have 3s power (to average enough to get useful "current" data) and lap power both displayed. For intervals, you want to have "current lap" (interval) time too. You can choose the 4th: cadence, HR, whatever. Need a second window for speed and total time and total distance at all...but those are much more relevant for outdoor riding than indoor intervals.
Run:
Main screen - Total Time; Avg Pace; Dist
Race screen - HR; Avg Pace; Lap Pace
Interval screen - Pace; Lap Time
I use auto lap at 1 mile for races and long runs, manual lap method for intervals
All sounds dissabled but have Vibrate setup for 0.5 mile (lap pace is reasonable by this point but not before 0.25 miles)
Bike:
Vibrate alert set for 15' for nutrition and hydation, otherwise use Joule for metrics.
Swim:
Lap Time