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Martin’s GAP and RUN PACE App - donations welcome

· v00.08.19
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Check out the latest features in the "What's New: " section, including a colour-coded zone screen! Any questions contact me. Please consider a small donation & suggest any future features in a review or on e-mail. https://buymeacoffee.com/woodster --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep track of your interval pace as you're running along ( RUN Phase ), then press the lap button to lock in your pace so far ( REST phase ). Configure an audible beep to let you know when you've hit your target pace ( when rested ), then once in RUN phase it will stop beeping. Go to the connect IQ settings for the app. Screen layout is shown in the images ( 4 segments : top/bottom/left & right in the middle ) - add the data field to each of the segments. You only need to do this once. The app detects which layout you have and switches screen automatically. It will take a second or so to settle but once you stay on that screen it's good. A colour version of GAPMNN which uses the 3 segments layout ( with labels ) which is used for race-pacing ( see GAPMNN app for thorough instructions ). You can pick from most race distances and set the hill factor. Note that a value of zero means you don't factor in hills at all e.g if you're an official pacer and have to run at a constant pace throughout. Also included : a quad screen which shows you max heart rate, current heart rate, run pace and lap pace. This is in early development so welcome any feedback & donations to spur me on! https://buymeacoffee.com/woodster Hopefully you find it useful as this feature doesn't seem to exist on running watches at the moment ( AFAIK at time of writing ! ) that does live interval pace tracking. NB’s: App name on watch shows as GAP_AND_RUN_PACE - maybe I'll come up with a better name soon :) If you don’t pick a pace e.g KPH/KM PACE/Mile PACE/etc the defaults are shown below: Interval screen: Minutes per kilometer Non-GAP pace at the top of the GAP-pacing screen ( green/black ) : Minutes per kilometer ( the preview before you start activity is always pace but can sort this out !! ) Run pace ( Blue on white ) only does KPH and KM PACE at the moment – more to come soon! GAP screen ( the red & white one ) : KPH

What's new

Release Notes 00.08.19 *** Interval Mode Updates ( 4B ) *** Interval phase text changed to INTERVAL #N. Added average interval length ( in km ) in REST mode - toggles every few seconds so you can still see the total interval distance accumulated. *** Vertical Speed Screen Updates ( 3B ) *** top section : added lap number & removed from bottom middle section : label now shows BPM and BPM zone lower section: removed lap counter and showing previous lap meters diff m/min units removed from display due to taking up too much space added "Toggle Vert Speed & BPM" switch to allow use of BPM screen - move away from screen and back again to change 00.08.13 internal upgrade to use the latest SDK for maximum compatibility Screen 3A - 3 horizontal bands Bottom segment updated to lap bpm showing colour-highlighted zone, BPM to 1 decimal place and zone to 1 decimal place. Screen 3B - 3 horizontal bands ( the no labels one by default - although I have put labels there! ) added vertical speed ( meters per minute ) to screen 3B enabled using a toggle switch in the settings menu ( off = lap heart rate ) scroll up in settings menu to find it highlighting is still lap heart rate zones to help with effort pacing top segment is elevation change, middle segment is vertical speed average to 2 decimal places since the lap button was pressed bottom segment is previous lap vertical speed ( in meters per minute ) 00.08.05 Work done on screen 3B ( the 3 horizontal bands with no label ) : + Auto-detection of user's max heart rate - shown in label. If there is a sport-specific setting it will use that, otherwise it will use the default. Zones are based on 10% buckets ( like Polar's defaults ): Z5 : 90% - 100%+ Max ( White text on Red background ) Anything above is the same colour - the number will keep going up ! Z4 : 80% - 90% ( black on yellow ) Z3 : 70% - 80% ( black on green ) Z2 : 60% - 70 % ( white on blue ) Z1 : 50% - 60% ( black on grey ) Z0 : below 50% ( white on brown ) Negative zones included - will remain the same colour. Zone to 1 decimal place + Lap timer at the top of the screen - pausing the workout won't pause the timer as it's based on elapsed time, like all other data in this app - useful for racing/not being able to cheat !! + Previous lap value | ZX.X including colour formatting Tested on Garmin Forerunner 955 with it set up on 2 screens : 3B ( the new one ) & 3A ( the GAP screen used for race paces which includes labels and a wider central band ). + works in harmony with timed workouts so no need to press lap button - it's automatic + also works well with structured intervals *Note : PacePro plans not supported - a new segment doesn't trigger a lap Tip: To dismiss the lap alert screen quick-press the menu button ( middle-left on FR955 ) + custom elapsed timer built using system timer & code adjusted to make stats update more responsively in certain scenarios Any questions contact me. Please consider a small donation & suggest any future features in a review or on e-mail. 00.07.01 [1] Workouts now supported so each step triggers an internal lap Previously the interval training status remained in REST mode if you were running a workout. It will keep toggling between RUN and REST for each completed workout step now. 00.06.01 RUN PACE ( White on Blue ) screen now gives you all the paces in the menu & the label toggles between "RUN PACE" ( or RUN SPEED if KPH or MPH ) and the units you have selected. 00.05.01 Initial public release

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