Hi everyone, I’m having some issues importing swim workouts from intervals.icu via Garmin Connect to my Forerunner 745.
When I create the workout the pace is displayed in min/100m, but when I go to start the workout on my watch (pool swim) all of the pace values are in km/h which is almost meaningless to me.
Has anyone run into this issue before, and are there any settings on either the intervals.icu or garmin side that I can change to display the workout pace in min/100m rather than km/h?
I tested it on my Garmin fenix 6. Same issue. Be aware that it not possible to set a target speed for a swim-workout in Garmin Connect.
FIT file from intervals.icu:
FIT file from Garmin:
The difference is the target_type: distance vs swim_stroke. Even when you make a workout based on distance, the value is “distance” which results in a “meaningless” pace in min/km.
This will not solve the issue but could give a direction to the solution.
I made this post far too early in the morning. Thanks for looking into it, your post made me double check and realise the value is in min/km not km/h, which is far from meaningless.
The question still stands though, is there a way to change the pace value to min/100m rather than min/km? I feel like I can definitely survive if not, but it would be a ‘nice to have’
Same happens here. Any solution?
Looks like you missed something 
EDIT: Or maybe not… I see now that you want this in workout creator. Sorry.
Looks to be happening to me as well. Values are fine in intervals, but incorrect on my fenix6p. Though I’m certain it was working correctly earlier in the year.
I have changed Intervals.icu to use “swim_stroke” for pace based steps in swimming workouts, both in the fit file generated by when you download a workout in fit format and in what is sent to the Garmin API. Could someone (@luisfmelo ) please test and see if this helps? I don’t have a Garmin swimming watch to test with.
I tested it but now I can´t import a swim workout into my Garmin watch anymore which I could before. The workout gets imported in the Garmin App but not in the watch. This has never happened before, besides I can import any other sport interval workouts into the watch but not swim interval workouts. I know other people who now have the same issue.
I have reverted the change for downloaded workout fit files. Does the workout imported into the Garmin App work?
I’ve been having the same issue with pace being shown on my Garmin watch as min/km. I’ve created a few workouts since David’s posts above but the pace is still showing at min/km on the watch.
Another strange bug is that I can’t view the workout steps in GC if I specify a pool length of 50m in the Intervals workout builder. The workout in GC will simply show “Pool Size 50 m” in the section where it would normally show the steps. If i delete the “pool length 50m” text in the workout builder on intervals, all the workout steps reappear in GC.
Not really an issue as I don’t often look at the workout in GC anyway.
Would love a solution to the watch showing min/km instead of min/100m though, as my maths isn’t good enough to give me accurate times when I’m in the pool!
I’ve also had the same bug in Garmin Connect where I’ve been unable to view workout steps. I recall this being an issue back when I first started loading swimming workouts via Intervals in July this year.
Unfortunately I’ve still had no luck with workout steps on my watch displaying pace in min/100m, even with David’s most recent change. @david very much appreciate the effort you’re putting in to fixing this though, didn’t expect this post to get any traction 
I think this might be because Garmin doesn’t support structured workouts for swims; while I can see the swim pace on my Forerunner 955 but wouldn’t be able to create a similar workout using only Garmin Connect.
It looks like Training Peaks get round this by just providing the information as a note rather than as a target in the fit file. Hope that helps!
Someone found a working solution already? 
For me it is still showing as min/km to this day. I just think Garmin uses the same metric used for running pace, which is min/km. I don’t know if the Garmin API would allow @david to specify the pace metric unit.
So I decided to group every combination of work/rest steps instead by doing the following:
1x
- "Warmup in Z1-Z2" 200 meters 80% pace intensity=warmup
- Rest 10" intensity=rest
Mind the 1x and the double quotes.
That shows nicely in the Garmin watch as 1x200 (0:10), and adds the quoted info in the instructions.
It works the same way with 2x, 3x, etc.
It then removes the weird pace info, make the sets clear, and the intensity is left to be informed in the instructions of the steps. Not ideal, but less confusing at least.
Look below (Fenix 6 Pro) how it appears in the “View” option of the workout:
What is shown when you enter the workout, before clicking the start button:
What you see during the interval:
And how it shows briefly when you change to the main set, after hitting the button lap:
The main set you see has been built the same way as described above.
I hope it helps you and others to come. It took me a long while of researching and testing to get to this state.
Any updates on this? I’m facing the same issue and couldn’t find a workaround.
