We’ve all had to bail from a segment, and during the training text it’s a common refrain that if you have to-- take a quick back-pedal to give you the salvation needed to finish out the segment well.
What I would like to see is when you pause, a timer begins ticking up as a motivator (and just pure information) to get spun back up, so that your mental ‘I need a 30 second break’ actually ends up being 30 seconds rather then letting the tired mind use it’s magical time-warping skills to perhaps push that break time up by several, or perhaps several dozen seconds.
If it showed you how long you’ve taken, both during the current pause and maybe even the total over your entire workout, I believe it’d be a good motivator to not rack up too much time on that ‘recovery’ clock.
