HA!! I’ve found my Garmin settings

[SueAppleRun]

Oh my oh my, I’ve only had my Garmin just over a year and it’s the best thing I’ve had in the way of watches, I dreamed of owning a Garmin years ago when they were little more than a sporty looking watch with possibly a lap button and last year Willow bought my Vivoactive 4s music for my birthday, I love it!!

But lately there have been one or two slight niggles, like distance is in kilometres but pace is per mile and it buzzes every time I change pace or what seems just randomly

As I’m doing very little today I did a bit of youtubing of the settings and woo hoo I’ve found all sorts of settings that I didn’t know were there, I’ve changed lots of things and can’t wait to go out and see but maybe not today, oh and I found route planner too, can you tell i’m all excited??

Happy Sunday all

[Tasha99 Graduate10]

I’ve had my watch over a year and I still don’t know how to do many things! It is enlightening isn’t it when you find things 🤣

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Tasha99]

I worked out route planner too lol it’s great

[Tasha99 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Perfect! 🤩

[Birdlady64 Graduate10]

😁😁😁I can tell you are having fun!

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Birdlady64]

Trouble is it’s not a run day he he

[dijep Graduate10]

Youtube is amazing for finding stuff out isn't it. Glad you've found lots of helpful settings that you can alter it'll be interested to see what it tells you after your next runI only found how to set up workouts on my watch from YouTube . I love my Garmin too, mine is a forerunner 45 and it's made it so much easier to track activities. Weirdly today on my morning walk it started to buzz and told me I reached my goal... No idea what goal! It wasn't steps which is the only goal it usually tells me about and I've no idea how to find the goal that I've reached, so I'll just be happy that achieved something before 9am this morning 😂🤣

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to dijep]

That’s so funny, it might be floors of stairs goal, mine once told me off for going up lots of flights of stairs and only coming down a few, need to be balanced, did it think I just went up and up? I live in a ground floor flat for goodness sake

[Tasha99 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

I was on 9 floors yesterday. Went up and down the stairs 5 times to hit my 10 floors goal and nothing changed 🤬

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Tasha99]

Blooming thing I’ve done that

[Hidden in reply to dijep]

It could be your active minutes goal 😊😉😆 🎯

[Catwise Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to dijep]

I agree with delly-dot, it’s probably your intensity minutes. It’s automatically set to 150 minutes per week so I always hit it late in the week. It’s determined by a combination of heart rate and step frequency I think. I found mine in Settings, Activities, then scroll down halfway down the screen. I have a Vivoactive 3 so the menus are probably pretty similar.

[Hidden]

I can’t wait for your next post-run post Sola. It’s going be full of new statistics 😆🎯!

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Hidden]

Just off for a walk now 😀

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Yay! Enjoy 😉

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to LottieMW]

Thanks I did

[Jools2020 Graduate10]

Haha! Yes, it’s good to explore more what your watch can do. I love my Garmin watch! It took me a while to learn about it and I’m sure there’s more to discover . MontyMooDog kindly gave up some of his valuable time to explain some of the things to me, particularly relating to heart rate zones and maximum heart rate and it gave me confidence to discover the rest myself! I had fun customising what is displayed as you run or walk and now it is just how I want it 😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Jools2020]

They are so adaptable, mine was set pretty well but the pace and keep buzzing at me was frustrating now i’ve changed it it’s great

[GailXrunning]

😂 There’s nothing like getting on top of one’s tech! Have (fresh) fun...

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to GailXrunning]

Much better without it buzzing every few minutes thanks

[GailXrunning in reply to SueAppleRun]

I can imagine!

[Lizcanrun Graduate10]

I set up a Santander bank account this week so I could use Garminpay. Thought maybe one day I'd need to get a taxi home 🤣🤣🤣 It's so cool, you can use it wherever there's the contactless sign! And yes, I know I sound old!! (But it's still cool!)

[Tasha99 Graduate10 in reply to Lizcanrun]

Is this just through your watch?! Is Santander the only bank with Garmin pay?

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Tasha99]

Yes, through my watch. If you look up Garminpay online, there's a list of banks that you can do it with. I think there's only 4 in the UK.

[9weeks2Run Graduate10]

Oh that is great Sola, Well Done great achievement to get on top of tech for your Garmin.

I don’t have one yet they sound amazing.

Take care