I’ve been using TrainRoad for just over a year now and ONLY ride indoors on a WattBike at my local gym, now not possible until they reopen again. Until recently I’ve not been able to ride outdoors as I don’t have a bike but I’ve now managed to get access to a bike and purchased a pair of Vector 3 po…

You can link your Garmin and TrainerRoad accounts so that your outdoor rides from Garmin Connect app show up in your TrainerRoad data.

I’m also fairly certain you can sync outdoor workouts to your fenix 5. You could run your iPhone outside for workouts but it won’t sync any speed/distance data as it assumes you are indoors.

I do that, it’s a useful way of me tracking the distance I’m now riding outside. I miss the structure of following the plans hence I was thinking about linking it to my iPhone and using it like I would indoors. I imagine it will be harder to follow due to external factors though. I was wondering if…

I didn’t realise I could do that, I do like following the graph on the iPhone though. I don’t need the distance and speed really. Any advice on how to push the workout to the Fenix 5?

The way it works on my Garmin Edge unit is pretty straight forward and I’m assuming it works similarly for their watches. For a scheduled workout on TR, click into the workout on the website calendar. There should be a toggle to switch it from ‘indoor’ to ‘outdoor’. Then it should push automatical…

Awesome thanks, I will give it a go and see how I get on. Looks pretty straight forward. :+1:

And if it’s the same as my Forerunner watch then from the Garmin side when you select an activity, but before you start it, press the up arrow to go into options. Then scroll down the ‘training’, then ‘my workouts’.

@mwglow15 you sir, are a Legend! Thanks so much it works perfectly. I had assumed outside workouts were entirley for head units and didn’t include watches. Given I use a chest mount and always mount my watch front and centre this will work. Will report back in a few days after my first outside wor…

Glad it’s working out! It may take some tries to really nail down which data fields you want visible and all that but you may be able to take some cues from the TR blog posts about the Edge head units.

Update on my expereince so far. Followed @mwglow15 advice and the TR blog on outdoor workouts [I wonder how many other people do not know that you can sync workouts to a watch? Surely I cannot be the only one.] Pushed the workout to my Fenix5 no issues, went out and followed the power based levels …

Pushing workouts to a Garmin Watch

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