Garmin Quick Workout: lascia che l'orologio decida come correre oggi

Don't know how to run today? Let your Garmin decide

Most runners just head out the door and run the same pace every single time. It's comfortable, but it's also why so many of us stop getting faster. Your Garmin can fix that in seconds, with a feature called Quick Workout.

You only answer two questions

1. How hard do you want to train? Choose from easy up to very hard
2. How much time do you have? 30, 45 or 60 minutes

Your watch then builds a guided run to match:

• Easy: a base run at a relaxed, conversational pace
• Moderate: a tempo run, around your marathon pace
• Hard: a run that pushes you towards your threshold pace
• Very hard: short sprint intervals

What you see during the run

Once you start, a dedicated workout screen shows which step you're in, the pace you should hit, and how you're doing against it. You don't need to remember a plan or do maths mid-run: the watch tells you when to speed up, when to recover and when you're done.

How to find it

1. Start a Run, but don't start the timer yet
2. Open the activity's menu and scroll down to Training
3. Select Quick Workout
4. Pick your intensity and duration, and start running

Quick Workout arrived with the Forerunner 70 and 170. If you don't see it under Training on your watch, it isn't supported on your model yet.

Two things to keep in mind

• The pace targets assume a good day. On a hilly route, in heat or on tired legs, run by feel and treat the target as a guide, not an order
• Don't make every run a hard one. Keep the hard and very hard options for one or two runs a week, and let the easy runs actually be easy

Perfect when you don't want a full plan

Quick Workout is ideal if you don't want to follow a structured training plan but still want some variety in your week. Pick hard on the days you feel good, easy when you don't, and you'll be training smarter without planning anything.

Want more structure? You can also build your own interval workouts, or let PacePro pace your next race.