Pace Lab is a Garmin running watch face that answers one question at a glance: am I on track for race day? Set your 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon goal and race date, and Pace Lab shows your goal next to your watch's own race prediction, with recovery, VO2 max, training status and weekly distance around it. For runners training for a race on Forerunner, fenix, epix, Venu and vivoactive. WHY RUNNERS CHOOSE PACE LAB • Goal vs prediction - "HALF GOAL 1:45:00 · PRED 1:48:12" from Garmin's race predictor: see if your training is working without opening an app • Gap to goal - "3:12 TO FIND" or "0:42 AHEAD": a clear target for the weeks ahead • Race countdown - days to go and your race's name keep long runs and taper on schedule • Weekly distance ring - fills towards your km or mile goal: know at a glance if you need one more run this week • 7-day run chart - spot missed days and sudden jumps before they become injuries • Recovery ring - counts down after each run: know if today is a hard day or an easy one WHAT THE COLOURS MEAN The ring and minutes take the colour of your Garmin training status, so you know how training is going before you read a number: green = productive · blue = maintaining · purple = peaking · amber = unproductive · orange = overreaching · red = strained · cyan = recovery · grey = detraining (time to run again) · volt yellow-green = no status yet (it comes after a few runs with heart rate). An empty grey ring means no running distance yet this week. The recovery ring is a traffic light: amber while you recover, green when you're ready. Prefer one colour? Pick volt, orange, cyan, red or white in settings. TWO LAYOUTS • Race - goal ring, goal vs prediction, three data fields, 7-day chart: your build weeks on one screen • Recovery - big recovery ring, training status, last run and streak: for the day after a hard session 27 DATA FIELDS - SHOW WHAT YOU CHECK • Running: recovery time, VO2 max, race prediction, distance this week or month, last run, streak, intensity minutes • Health: heart rate, resting heart rate, Body Battery, stress, sleep score, Pulse Ox, respiration • Daily: steps, calories, floors, battery, notifications • Outdoors: temperature, rain chance, wind, UV index, sunrise and sunset, altitude, second time zone MAKE IT YOURS • Km or miles, 12/24 hour, seconds, three date formats • White background on MIP watches (Forerunner 255/955, fenix 7, Enduro) for bright sun • Night mode dims the face while you sleep; AMOLED always-on shifts slightly to protect the screen • Touch and hold a number to open Garmin's screen for it (touchscreen watches) COMPATIBLE WATCHES Garmin Forerunner 70, 165, 170, 255, 265, 570, 955, 965 and 970; fenix 7, 8, 9 and E (incl. Pro, Solar, S and X); epix and epix Pro (Gen 2); Venu 2, 3 and 4; vivoactive 5 and 6; Instinct 3 AMOLED and Instinct Crossover AMOLED; MARQ (Gen 2); Enduro 2 and 3; tactix 7 and 8. Check the device list for your model. SET UP YOUR RACE IN A MINUTE 1. Choose Pace Lab as your watch face. 2. In the Connect IQ app, open Pace Lab → Settings. 3. Enter race distance, goal time (e.g. 1:45 or 3:30:00), date and name. Garmin doesn't share its race calendar with watch faces, so you enter it here once. 4. Pick layout, colour and data fields. GOOD TO KNOW • Predictions, recovery, VO2 max and training status come from your watch after a few runs with heart rate; anything a watch lacks shows "--". • Last run, streak, chart and weekly distance use the runs saved on your watch. • Privacy: nothing is collected or sent - Pace Lab only reads your watch's data to show it. SUPPORT [email protected] - I aim to reply within a few days. Purchases are covered by Garmin's 48-hour return window.

Fixes a crash: the UV index field on Venu 2, 2S and 2 Plus, and the Floors field on vivoactive 5, vivoactive 6 and Forerunner 70, could stop the face. Those watches don't measure that reading, so the field now shows "--".