Running intervals

[SteveKempshott]

Hi everyone. I joined local running club and I've been given a training plan that involves running intervals. How can I program my Sense to buzz or make a sound between intervals? Ideally I'd like to see countdown before each interval. My workouts become too complex to keep tracking manually. For instance, one of my workouts is a pyramid pace progression and looks like this:
1.61km warm up
5' at 5:40/km, 3' rest
4' at 4:53/km, 2' rest
3' at 4:23/km, 1' rest
2' at 4:06/km, 1' rest
1' at 3:51/km, 1' rest
2' at 4:06/km, 1' rest
3' at 4:23/km, 2' rest
4' at 4:53/km, 3' rest
5' at 5:40/km
1.61km cool down
Is there any way to program Sense for it? If not is there any app for Sense that allows it? I see my friends program their watches to follow training plan. Can Sense do the same?

[LZeeW]

Hello @SteveKempshott snd welcome to the Community.  I'm sorry, but you can't program custom intervals on the Sense (or any other Fitbit).  As for your app question, you can search the App Gallery to see if one exists.  Tap on your Profile avatar in the upper left of your mobile app > your Sense tile > tap the Gallery icon > slide the toggle to Apps > tap on the Search icon in the upper right.

[t.parker]

@SteveKempshott as @LZeeW said, no Fitbit supports such feature (it's activity tracker not a sports watch). Your friends probably use Garmin ( as structured workouts), Polar (as phased workouts) or Coros (don't remember name for this feature they use) watches which support structured intervals natively and that would be my recommendation - using different platform that supports what you need. Once you get it on the watch you just need to focus on running (for me, this is also a "must-have" feature). If you would go for any of those platforms look at how the feature is supported (how many targets per single interval you can set, what kind of targets, the training interface on the watch etc.). These are not cheap things and better to do research before spending money. And if you have friends in your club then ask them for recommendation.

As for apps, I did a quick search and there are some simple interval training apps (none of them free) for Sense but they are not going to do exactly what you want. The example you posted doesn't even include repeats and has different pace target for each interval (and no target for "rest"). Sense isn't the right device for for the job.