Cheers mate. I’ve heard of lap pace before and will try it. Big trouble for me is that I do my pace by kms, which is fine for training but most races I do have mile markers. (grr). I have absolutely zero idea how far a mile or 5 miles feels when I’m running.
I’m metricised 
Actually, I’ll edit that. In a marathon, could you set up vibrations alerts for laps at 1km increments, so you know when to hit the button? That’d work.
You can set it to auto lap every 1km then you won’t even need to press a button
I have it set to that now on ‘av pace’, are you saying I can do the same for lap pace?
I have mine set with a field that gives me av lap pace for the reason you need it and it works well.
Thanks all. I’ll have a play around on the weekend.
@FatPom I have one of my screens like this with the Lap Pace…
They’re different things.
Auto lap is just that. It laps at a set distance. You can still manually lap before that if you choose. So set to 1km autolap, it’ll automatically lap at 1k,2k,3k. If you then manually lap at 3.4k for some reason, it’ll then autolap at 4.4k,5.4k etc after that.
I have an “imperial race” activity profile set up, where I temporarily switched the device to imperial, set autolap to every 1 mile, and then turned the device back to metric. Therefore in races with mile boards rather than km boards, I can tell how my watch distance is stacking up against the official boards (by whether it is autolapping before or after them), but still get my pace in mins/km.
What you choose to display for pace is then totally separate. As others have said,
Pace = instantaneous pace/what you are doing right now. Pretty volotile. Newer garmin devices round to the nearest 5s.
Lap pace = your average pace for the current lap, however long that is. So if autolap set to 1k, at 1.1k it’ll be the average pace for the last 100m. At 1.9k it’ll be the average pace for the past 900m.
Average pace = the average for the entire run.
I only ever use lap pace.
I use lap pace as my primary pace metric and have it auto lapping every mile (I still work in imperial for distances and paces!). I’ve used this set up for years and find it works really well, although immediately after it laps you need to wait a little bit for the average pace to settle down.
Yep snap. Used to use current pace but it’s just too volatile. Lap pace combined with overall avg pace normally tells me exactly what’s going on.
Thanks all, brilliant. Of course, won’t be needed at Newport with my metronomic like RPE pacing,ahem…
Yes, I found this out by accident 
What would be really good is if the autolap and manual laps ran completely separately and you got both at the end.
So, for example, one lap for your 3.4km loop from manually pressing the button and then separate 1, 2, 3km etc. rather than having to add them up if you want separate km’s and the overall for each of, say 3, loops.
That’s one thing strava is good for. On any workout, I will use my “track” activity profile which has stuff like autolap turned off. I’ll then manually lap. But strava always gives you the 1k splits as well on the main page
my old polar used to do that. M400 i think it was. One of the few things it did well! haha
In another thread I was asking about Lap Pace vs Av Pace. I’ve set that up now on my watch (not tried yet due to sore throat).
Messing around with my watch yesterday and data files. I can work out how to change the fields you see easily. What I can’t fathom is how to set up multiple views (possibly using a different number of fields).
How can I say, have a several profiles in one discipline, such as: Track workout, endurance run, race view etc. Do the they need to labelled as such and added as a separate activity in your list?
When I press the down button on my Run profile, I only get two layouts, then it goes to HR, then time.
How do I add more?
I think you’d probably need to download a widget. Garmin as a default will only give you the two (whereas my old polar would let you have loads).
If you want to add more data pages, then if you go into the activity setting you should have something like “data screens”. You can then generally turn pages on or off, and once they are on, customise them. On the 920xt for example, you can have 4 customisable data screens, then a map screen, clock screen, running dynamics screen, etc.
If you want to set up new activity profiles, where the data screens, and settings, are customised for a particular type of workout, then you need to add a new activity profile. On the 920xt, that’s in settings, and then within activity profiles you have “add new”. My list of activity profiles is:
Race run
Training run
Track (or interval) run (mainly autolap turned off, and some lap split based data screens)
Treadmill run
Bike
Indoor Bike
Pool Swim
OW swim
Snowboarding
Aquathlon
Duathlon
OW triathlon
Pool triathlon
Takes a bit of time to set them all up how you want them, but it’s a one time thing and then they are all there for when I need them. The number of times I see people at the start lines of tri’s frantically changing the default “triathlon” mode to a pool based swim workout if the swim is in a pool. It’s easier just to take the short amount of time in advance and have one for each.
Brilliant, thanks mate. I have set up a duathlon one, but I hadn’t realised all the different run metrics needed to be set up as well. When I’ve been watching YT clips, people explain the reason for using the fields but omit they are a custom set up.
I’m sick at the moment, so got some time to play around.
One extra thing. With the multisport activity profiles, you specify which of the single sport profiles you want to use. So if you have a training run screen, and a race run screen, and within a tri/du you want the run segment to display your race data pages, then you just have to select that run activity profile as part of the multisport activity profile setup.
You can’t have a set of data pages just for a multisport activity profile. You need a single sport profile with that setup to already exist.
You seem to have omitted #smashfest from your long list.
