I think I just figured it out. Once you flip your workout to Outside, you see the blue link to sync ride on Garmin. You get brought to the screen with all your accounts that are linked to Trainer Road. Here is where I got hung up, as you have.
I realized I had to click on the âRe-authorize Garminâ. Youâll see the next screen has a new checkbox labeled âworkoutsâ that you need to flip to checked.
Edit: Upon further investigation. You now need to go into your Garmin Connect on your phone, Go into workouts, youâll see the Trainer Road Workout, you now need to select and it choose âSend to deviceâ like youâd send a course map to your device.
Now youâll actually have the ride synced to Garmin and should show up when you go into workouts.
I didnât have to do the phone part. The workout showed up in the Garmin calendar, but not on the device at the same time. I used to turn my Garmin Edge 1030 off, but now I put it to sleep. According to the Garmin help, the 1030 will stay connected to the Wi-Fi. I am hoping this means it can sync while it is asleep.
It was interesting to see that the Trainerroad calendar said queued for Garmin even though Garmin had it in the calendar. Iâm hoping that the sent to Garmin message means the head unit has it. I have asked support about this while discussing something else. Hopefully they will let me know.
Not sure if this has been answered elsewhere, but is there any way to customize the training screen on Garmin Edge (Iâm using 520 plus) for these workouts. I would like to see 3s power instead of just average for the interval, and also turn off âPower too highâ notifications (and probably âPower too lowâ as well!)
Outdoor Workout Function - Time Remaining⌠recently did Monitor-4 outside version, the count down clock for the 6min effort worked fine, but did not work for the 90sec recovery, i had to keep swapping screens to the Garmin Screen (not the custom page view) to see how long i had been in recovery⌠quite annoyingâŚis this how it is intended to work⌠know still need to press lap to start the next session.
There are no plans for Pioneer head units at the time. Iâm not sure what their market share is for our users. Weâve got plans to look into that but itâs still a ways out.
My thought is that if it has enough market share and âfitsâ well (like has a good workout feature) then we will build integration.
You can turn off the beeps, but you canât customize the screen. We recommend setting up a second workout screen that you use as your main screen while you workout.
Thank you @Nate_Pearson. Just a piece of information and you guys are probably aware that pioneer is a wahoo based head unit. It should not be a problem integrating it. In any case, once TR announces Wahoo integration, I will test it on mine. Thanks again
Cool. The hard part is integrating with the API to send workouts to their head units. If we can piggy back on what we did for Wahoo then that would help.
No power meter⌠hmm, while the website will give you the RPE equivalent, the device doesnât: it will just state that an interval requires you to be between X and X watts for X minutes.
Iâm sure this has been mentioned before, but itâs a long thread and canât go through all of it. My Garmin Vector 2 Pedals read on aveage 15 watts less than my Wahoo Kickr Snap. I donât use Power match, as pedals only use Ant+ and i donât have a dongle for my iphone. So i usually just set the FTP on my Garmin 520 to 15 Watts less than TrainerRoad. At the moment iâm 272 on TR and garmin 520 is 257. This causes an issue with the new Outside Workouts, as they will be scaled up too high for me. Maybe if we could set an offset value in TR. e.g. I want all my outdoor workouts to be scaled up/down 5% to compensate. Other than that, it looks like a great feature. Thanks Ollie
Is there any sensible way to limit the work you do as part of an outside ride?
The context: I had Spanish Needle scheduled yesterday and was expecting it to give me a different structure for outside, but it was basically the same structure. I went to a local TT loop (to avoid lots of up and downhills) and did it, but I managed to accumulate 129TSS instead of 92, in part because the 15 seconds âonâ were much higher wattages than the pan called for. Even though I got a bit better at judging power as the session went on, I found going from 100W to 350W without spending quite a lot of time over 400 was basically impossible (I was using 3 second power to see how I was doing, though I also display 10 second power). I also lost count of how many intervals Iâd done (I was just counting the 15 seconds in my head over and over). You can see the ride here: https://www.trainerroad.com/career/duncanm23/rides/58348492-spanish-needle-outdoors-
Iâm on the General Build plan, and I can see that there are a lot of workouts with short interval efforts coming up - are there any tricks to doing this sort of interval if I want to ride them outside?
This is one of the reasons outside workouts are partly inferior to inside workouts. The larger number of variables means that you canât expect the same level control as an inside ride. There is no cheat here other than to learn what is necessary to hit the desired power targets.
It takes trial and error to find the right gearing and effort to hit those levels. The first few intervals in any workout are likely to be this up and down experience. Again, something required of the rider vs having strict control via ERG or mores stable Resistance from the trainer.
Itâs the very reason that TR has stressed doing these types of workouts inside when possible. Their new tool allowing any and all plan workouts to be done outside comes with a notable caveat. We must acknowledge that what we gain in having more fun and enjoyment of being outside comes with a cost. That cost is the likelihood that our workouts will be over/under the prescription more often than not.
It comes down to accepting that, and possibly be more selective about which workouts we take outside. It depends heavily on the rider and their ability to apply the workout without the assists we have inside, and the subjective nature of the terrain we each have to apply these workouts.
In short, you canât expect perfection when doing these outside.
