Viewing Your Predicted Race Times - Garmin FORERUNNER 255 Series Owner's Manual

Getting Your VO2 Max. Estimate for Cycling
This feature requires a power meter and wrist-based heart rate or a compatible chest heart rate monitor. The
power meter must be paired with your watch
heart rate monitor, you must put it on and pair it with your watch.
For the most accurate estimate, complete the user profile setup
your maximum heart rate
The watch requires a few rides to learn about your cycling performance.
1 Start a cycling activity.
2 Ride at a steady, high intensity for at least 20 minutes.
3 After your ride, select Save.
4 Press UP or DOWN to scroll through the performance measurements.
Turning Off VO2 Max. Recording
You can disable VO2 max. recording for ultra run and trail run activities if you do not want these run types to
affect your VO2 max. estimate
1 Hold UP.
2 Select Activities & Apps.
3 Select Trail Run or Ultra Run.
4 Select the activity settings.
5 Select Record VO2 Max. > Off.

Viewing Your Predicted Race Times

For the most accurate estimate, complete the user profile setup
your maximum heart rate
Your watch uses the VO2 max. estimate
provide a target race time. The watch analyzes several weeks of your training data to refine the race time
estimates.
TIP: If you have more than one Garmin device, you can enable the Physio TrueUp
watch to sync activities, history, and data from other devices
Measurements, page 26).
1 From the watch face, press UP or DOWN to view the performance glance.
2 Press START to view glance details.
3 Press UP or DOWN to view a predicted race time.
4 Press START to view predictions for other distances.
NOTE: The predictions may seem inaccurate at first. The watch requires a few runs to learn about your
running performance.
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(Pairing Your Wireless Sensors, page
(Setting Your Heart Rate Zones, page
(About VO2 Max. Estimates, page
(Setting Your Heart Rate Zones, page
(About VO2 Max. Estimates, page
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(Setting Up Your User Profile, page
66). The estimate may seem inaccurate at first.
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(Setting Up Your User Profile, page
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™ feature, which allows your
(Syncing Activities and Performance
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