Ride a course and do a workout on Garmin

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This morning I wanted to do a Trainerroad workout outside, but this week follow a certain course. I could not see how to do this. When I picked the workout I had the option to pick a course. This was under the preview graph for the workout. I did this. All it seemed to do was load the route and want me to start. I couldn’t see how to start the workout I have a Garmin Edge 1030.

Does anyone know how to do this?

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^ this! I could also use some advice from someone who knows the specific steps to get this to work…

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It’s depressing that this question has been asked over and over on Garmin’s own forums for years (in context of both bike and run courses/workouts), and Garmin can’t ever be bothered to answer.

The consensus seems to be that starting navigation first, then going back to select a workout, has the greatest chance of success. If I manage to get it working I’ll post some notes.

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It’s worked for me on a 520 and 530. Pretty sure I’ve always started the course first, and then select the workout. Might work the other way too. I’ve loaded short workouts on the fly during a ride. And loaded connector routes on the fly. Don’t overthink it, you can’t do both at the same time. Start one, then start the other.

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I’ve done it on my 530 by

  • Selecting the workout

  • Click ride

  • Click the same (top right) button again

  • Find a course is at the top of that menu

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I’d have to go back and try this again … but one problem is that if I start a Course, then when I go to select a Workout, I don’t get that day’s TR workout to select … I do get some old random Workout, but my TR workouts seemed to be filed differently (under ‘Training Plan’) on the Garmin unit.

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Thanks - yeah, I thought that’s what I tried yesterday, but about 3 miles into a 25 mile route the workout stopped and my Garmin announced we’d got to the end of the route. Will try it again next weekend.
I created myself a ‘workout’ profile that streamlines all the screens and alerts (so I don’t get drinking/eating reminders etc), so I wondered if that was the issue - but the profile does include a screen for navigation, so I expected it to pop up and offer directions only when a turn came up.

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I did get it work, but I can’t remember which way round it I did I it. To @wysbf2 point, I think I started the workout first. I will need to re-try it when I next ride outside.

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