My new ForeRunner screen setup
Hi,
As many of you know, my motto is: "I may not be smart, but I'm slow!" Well, this just proves the point. After hundreds of EN interval workouts, I've finally made it so that my watch works with me.
Disclaimer - I realize that it's possible to program workouts into the ForeRunner. I've done it many times, and have even schemed about some way to auto-translate the Training Plan data into a shareable workout file. But...I haven't done that, and I'm just not disciplined enought to enter all the workouts by hand. I've tried doing generic ones, but if you forget to start your run with the workout, when you start it later the watch resets your time and distance - not what I want.
Realizing that I can better utilize the secondary screens to make it really easy to do EN style intervals, I set up running screen 2 with 4 sections:
Time - Lap
Heart Rate
Pace
Distance - Lap
Some people might not be interested in the Heart rate, and could leave that off. But with these 4 items, I can do any EN run workout. At the start of each interval or rest period, you hit the lap button. While on my running screen 1 I like to have time in the big window so that I can see seconds after an hour, it's not necessary for this screen (my laps are never more than an hour, so it always just shows minutes and seconds).
I prefer to have HR and Pace be 'current' rather than the lap average.
Just for completeness, here's my running screen 1 setup:
Time
Pace
Distance
I suppose if I were using my bike out on the road, I would do a similar setup on the bike screens. But mostly I bike on the trainer, and have all kinds of numbers staring at me from the PowerTap, Garmin (with speed and cadence sensor), and the computer.
Mike
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