It does sometimes take a while to show up and AFAIK you have to do a few longer, fairly high intensity runs. They have to be ‘free’ workouts in the run app as well, (not following a prescribed workout). The other really important thing to check is that you have your Max Heart rate setting set correctly.

You also need to be using a HRM-Run strap (I’m not sure if the HRM-Tri is the same) – Does it do Advanced Running Dynamics such as Ground Contact Time Balance and Vertical Ratio?

The other thing to note is that VO2max calculations aren’t shown necessarily after every run, they are only shown if the calculation changes. You can however see the current calculation if you go to the achievements screen after saving a workout but before pressing ‘done’.

Al.

Yep… Take a look at my Garmin Fenix 3 Set Up post to get an idea of the things you can have on each screen. Essentially you can have up to four data fields per screen and several different screens for each activity. Each activity type can have it’s own custom set up so that you can see whatever data is most important to you for any given activity.

Al.

Thank you for that!
I actually don’t have the watch but will buy it soon.
I do a lot of long distance SUP so this will help my training a lot.
So can you put heart rate, elapsed time, speed and distance per stroke in one screen?

You don’t need an app from the IQ store as it’s now a built in Activity Profile. If you have upgraded to version 6.5 or higher you should have the following the as part of the update:

Added support for Standup Paddleboarding (SUP) App. New features include stroke rate, stroke count, distance per stroke, upgrades to virtual partner, stroke rate alerts, and ‘every beat’ metronome option. Garmin Connect support coming soon!

Hope that helps.
Al.

That makes sense… You also need to make sure that the HRM-Run strap has been updated to the latest firmware as well – which should happen automatically when it pairs.

Al.

Yes that was what I meant with the dynamics. I have found out where I have went wrong tho. Although I had updated the watch, I hadn’t linked it to the hrm to update it. I have just done this so hopefully will be good on my next run. Thanks for the reply.

Gary

Hi Gary,
I’m sure you won’t be disappointed with your Fenix 3 – I’m still loving mine.

As far as Advance Run Dynamics goes, then I’m sure it is recording it, I’m just not sure what you mean when you say you get ‘normal’ run dynamics. I can only think that you mean you can see the data for ‘Run Cadence’, ‘Vertical Oscillation’ and ‘Ground Contact Time’, but not ‘Ground Contact Time Balance’ and ‘Vertical Ratio’.. Is that what you mean?

if so, then it’s there, you just need to click on the little disclosure triangles next to the words ‘Vertical Oscillation’ and ‘Ground Contact Time’ to get menus to change those graphs to ‘Vertical Ratio’ and ‘Ground Contact Time Balance’ respectively.

Does that help?
Al.