How does one change an interval type, i.e. from work to recovery?
In the image below, my aim is to compare all the 60" intervals listed one after another without the 2’ RI’s confusing the visuals.
Clicking on the edit icon only allows changing the label, not the type.
I ask again because I can’t have what I think i will have. I make a programmed workout with warm up - 4*(work+recovery) - cool down but every intervals are marked as work
Not directly but you can just create a step with low HR or power. For workout FIT files generated by Intervals.icu the step will get intensity of REST for Z1, RECOVERY for Z2 and INTERVAL for Z3+.
Ok, thanks I will decode some FIT files to see what is going on. So far my watch always shows “Run” for each interval step. A similar workout created on Garmin Connect does show the rest step as “Rest” on my watch.
Did you get the workout onto your watch by uploading from Intervals.icu to Garmin. Connect automatically? That works a bit differently. Garmin have a JSON API and they generate the fit file for the device.
I have just fixed a bug that caused all non warmup/cooldown steps for the Garmin upload to be INTERVAL. Now you should get rest, recovery etc. as above.
I’ve just tried this on a run, setting my recoveries to z2 pace. On Garmin they got named as “Rest” rather than “Recovery” but otherwise as expected.
When the workout is synced back in intervals everything is shown as work.
I can work around all of this by manually editing but would be nice to default such that when the workout is synced into intervals the recoveries are not classified as work. However, this is a very minor in the scheme of things
Hi David,
I noticed this change on my Garmin watch the other day.
Do I understand correctly that from now on endurance athletes (who do the majority of their training in Z1-2) will be doing REST and RECOVERY all the time? That would be pretty unfortunate, I think.
Is there a way to change this behavior from the user side? Do I have to change the workout text description on intervals.icu somehow?
Would it be possible to have “Run” show as default and allow people to specify in the workout builder if they want to change it to “Rest” or “Recovery”?
I need to figure out how to include that in the workout editor. The new default should show run unless the step has really low power, hr or pace (less than 80% of top of Z1).