Anyone here with a Garmin Forerunner 230/235? have a question

[QueBert]

I want to get the 235, and am wondering about custom workouts + vibrations. All I could find on Google was a few people saying there was a bug with the vibrations on custom workouts. They made it sound like it applied to the HR zone. Anyone with this watch. I want to set up a custom couch to 5k program, and I'd like to get vibration alerts for each stage of the workout and my HR zone for the portions when I'm running.

Is this going to be possible?

 

[TripleThreatTLT]

My wife has the Forerunner 230 and I use the Vivoactive HR. I don't think she has tried the vibration feature. However I would be very skeptical of how useful it would be. Vibrations on mine are pretty easy to miss and when running I'm pretty sure I wouldn't notice them.

When I went through c25k I just used the app with Bluetooth headphones. Worked perfectly.

Forerunner is a dedicated running watch. Seems overkill if you are just starting up c25k. My wife and I didn't get ours until we were nearing the end of our half marathon training and knew we would be running long term.

 

[cbrunny]

Do not have the 230 or 235 but have a Fenix 3 HR. I use vibrations on almost all my workouts and usually have no problem with them, even in the pool. Occasionaly I will miss one though.

AFAIK, to do the type of customization you want, youll have to create a workout in Garmin Connect and load it over to your watch, then start the workout there. I do this s ometimes. It works reasonably well but it can be a hassle. There are a limited number of factors you can "track" at a given time during a workout too. For example, you cannot set a workout to run 10 mins while vibrating if hr tracks outside a custom zone AND vibrate if cadence tracks outside a custom zone. You can do one or the other but not both, of the latter. But, if you're doing a LSD run and want to keep your HR in Zone 2 but cadence high, you can set the watch's custom alerts on both of those items right on the watch rather than on a custom workout, and it will work fine.

But again, that's all on the Fenix 3 HR. I assume forerunner is the same but can't say for certain.

Also, highly recommend a chest strap if you want high quality HR data. if you're just in for fun, the optical works fine.