In The Zone - App Details

This App has been written specifically for cycling devices that can handle the newer Connect IQ and device firmware. It includes many new features and configuration options, particularly display of current weather conditions and a localised (depending on GPS) forecast for the next 3 (rolling) hours.

Requirements:

• This data field requires a power meter, HeartRate monitor and cadence sensor to be connected to your Garmin device.

• There is also a configuration option to display calculated gearing, or gearing from your electronic shifting (which requires electronic shifting on your bike, linked with your Garmin device). See Gears Display for more details.

• Your data recording interval should be set to 1 second in your Garmin device. That is, not using Smart Recording, and you should TURN OFF auto-pause. Normalised Power and Strava Weighted Power calculations require these settings for accuracy.

Information Displayed:

 

• App Settings can be set directly on the device - no need to use your Phone or Garmin Express to update Settings
• Lap Summary Display (optional, with configuration options)
• Battery Status indicator
• Current Power output in Watts (with a configurable 1-30 second Moving Average)
• Average Power Options: Average Power, Strava Weighted Average Power, or Normalized Power (NP)
• If NP is chosen you may also choose to display Intensity Factor (IF) and Training Stress Score (TSS)
• Option to Include zero's when your device is auto-paused or not (though for proper training you'd turn off Auto-Pause, right??)
• Option to display Power (and Average Power/SWA/NP) as Watts/Kg
• Watt Prime Balance
• Watt Prime Automatic Decay
• Power & Average Power Zone
• HeartRate & Zone from your Garmin Profile Only
• Average HR & Zone
• Cadence (RPM). Average Cadence (CAV) will also be displayed if NP (IF and TSS) is not displayed.
• Speed, Average Speed and Distance (Kilometres or Miles, depending on Garmin profile)
• Climbing Gradient % (Kalman filter smoothed)
• Current Altitude (Metres or Feet, depending on Garmin Profile)
• Current Time and Timer display. A configuration option allows on/off display of seconds
• Timer Configurable: Off; Elapsed Time; Moving Time; LAP Time
• Rear Cassette gear (configurable on/off). Front Chain Ring is also highlighted by showing first digit of Cassette gear in Blue if smaller chainring selected, or second digit of cassette gear in blue if larger chainring seleted.
• Optional display of Weather: Current conditions plus a Forecast of next 3 (rolling) hours. This display is configurable to show all the time, never, for 1 minute, for 2 minutes, for 4 minutes or for 8 minutes, depending also on the UpdateWeather setting. The weather can update every 20 minutes, or by clicking the LAP button, both, or never (this is configurable). Weather information is provided by GPS. If precipitation is 50% chance or greater for a weather forecast, the forecast row will be a Blue colour. Weather condition icons automatically adjust depending on sunrise and sunset.
• Configurable Background colour of the display. This allow you to override the auto/night/day setting in the device and set a specific background colour only for this app. Choices are: Follow Device Settings (Default), Black , White , Dark Grey , Dark Blue , Dark Green , Dark Red , Grey , Blue
• Configurable colour of outlines in the display: Grey (Default), Red , Blue , Green , Yellow , Orange , Pink
• Configurable position of all four circles, plus the extra data display. That is, each primary metric can be moved to a different circle and the extra data display can be placed either top or bottom of screen. There are currently 12 different combinations defined in App settings to choose from.
• Configurable display of 60 second rolling histograms for HeartRate, Power or Both.
• In The Zone can only be used as a single field display in an Activity page

Screen Layouts:

 

1 PW / avPW / HR / avHR / Other (Epix2)

2 PW / avPW / HR / avHR / Other

3 Other / PW / avPW / HR / avHR

4 PW / HR / avPW / avHR / Other

5 Other / PW / HR / avPW / avHR

6 Other / HR / avHR / PW / avPW

7 HR / PW / avHR / avPW / Other

8 Other / HR / PW / avHR / avPW

9 avPW / avHR / PW / HR / Other

10 Other / avPW / avHR / PW / HR

11 avHR / avPW / HR / PW / Other

12 Other / avHR / avPW / HR / PW

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Feature Details

Heartrate Zones:

• Are automatically retrieved from your Garmin profile, so please ensure they are setup correctly in your profile.
• If you are planning to display Power as Watts/KG, please also ensure you set your correct weight in your Garmin profile.
• The app displays the percentage your HR is within the respective zone.

Power Zones (Coggan - FTP based):

Power Zones

Watt Prime (W') BALANCE:

Watt Prime

Watt PRIME (W') AUTO DECAY:

Watt Prime Decay

Weather Details:

Weather

Lap Summary Display

The LAP Summary display details

• Upon selecting the LAP button on your device, or setting your device to trigger a LAP based on distance or time, the LAP summary display will be shown. This presents the following data:
• In the Heading of th LAP Summary display will be the LAP number and time duration of this lap (in, HH:MM:SS).
• The first column of data shows (top to bottom): LAP average Power (W), LAP average Heartrate (BPM), LAP average Cadence and LAP average Speed. You will notice that the average Power and HR values are highlighted by a colour. This colour relates to where each of these values sits within your respective zones. The image, above, shows a Pink colour for Power (Z6 - Anaerobic) and a Blue colour for HR (Z2 - Endurance).
• The second column of data shows (top to bottom): (km/mi) LAP Distance, Asc (m/ft) LAP Ascent, Grad (Gradient) LAP Gradient in %.
• All data presented is displayed as per the Units setting on your device (ie, metric or imperial).

LAP Summary display - Configuration options and Notes

There are Four App settings that determine how LAP data is presented on the screen:

• The first configuration option is: Show LAP Summary - For this setting, you have 5 options: OFF (to completely turn off the LAP Summary display and associated calculations), 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 seconds display (to allow the LAP summary display to show based on press of the LAP key, or device configured auto time or distance trigger, for the selected period of time).
• If you also have selected the Weather display to trigger on LAP press, then both the Weather and LAP Summary displays will be shown on LAP trigger.
• If you start an activity and do not press the LAP button (or you have not configured auto-lap), then all averages on the screen are for the entire activity. However, once LAP is triggered within an activity then the main display will show the current LAP averages for whatever averages you're showing on the screen, such as Power Standard Average, HR Average, Cadence Average. Note, however, that if you have selected Strava Weighted Average, or Normalised Power then these two will always be shown and calculated for the entire activity.
• A configuration option Show Activity Averages allows a degree of override of the previous point, above. If this setting is set to yes, then where Total Ascent, Distance, Average HR, Average Cadence (CAV) and Average Speed are displayed they will always show the Activity (non-Lap) data. Set this to 'No' to display the LAP data.

Gears Display

Settings options:

• None: No gears are displayed on your device.
• Electronic Shifting: If you have electreonic shifting (Shimano Di2) installed on your bike and it is connected to your garmin device, then choose this option for accuracy and less processing.
• Calculated: Choose this option if you don't have electronic shifting. The app will calculate which gear you are in based on your current Cadence and Speed (you must have these sensors connected to your garmin device for this to work). There are also a series of settings that need to be set in order for the App to properly determine which gear you are using, see below.

Other Gear related settings:

• Wheel Rim Diameter in mm: You must eneter the diamter of one of your wheel rims. The most common diameter is 622mm.
• Tyre Diameter in mm: You must eneter the diamter of one of your tyres. There are a range of diameters, but for road bikes the common ones are 19mm, 23mm, 25mm, 28mm and 32mm.
• See this link for details on wheel and Tyre sizes. When entering these figures into App settings ensure they are entered separately. For example, for a 700c / 29er rim, you would enter 622 in the Wheel Diameter setting. For a 25mm tyre, you would enter 25 in the Tyre width field.

Chain Rings (1, 2 or 3):

• Front Chain Ring 1 (smallest): Start with the smallest, front chain ring on your bike. This is usually the chain ring closest to the frame. Enter the number of teeth on this chain ring. There should always be a value in this setting.
• Front Chain Ring 2: Enter the number of teeth on the second chain ring. If you don't have a second chain ring, just leave this setting as '0'.
• Front Chain Ring 3: Enter the number of teeth on the third chain ring. If you don't have a third chain ring, just leave this setting as '0'.
• DEFAULTS: If you do not enter any values for any of the chain ring fields, default values will be used - Chainring1 = 34, Chainring2 = 50, Chainring3 = 0

Cassette gears (up to 13):

• For each Cassette gear from smallest to biggest: Start with the smallest, rear cassette gear on your bike. This is usually the gear cog closest to the outer frame of your bike. Enter the number of teeth on this gear and then proceed to the next one. You can enter up to 13 gears. If you only have 10 or 11, just leave the remaining gear settings as '0'.
• For example, I have an 11 speed Shimano cassette which has gears with the following teeth, in order from smallest to biggest: 11,12,13,14,16,18,20,22,25,28,32. I would enter each of these values, separately, into the first 11 cassette fields (1-11), leaving the last two fields as '0'.
• DEFAULTS: If you do not enter any values for any of the cassette gear fields, default values will be used, based on a Shimano 14-28T cassette - 11,12,13,14,15,17,19,21,23,25,28.

Calculation Smoothing:

• As the calculations to derive your current gear are affected by Speed and Cadence, the calculations can fluctuate as your speed and cadence naturally varies. To smooth this out I've added a setting that will mean a gear change will only be registered after the calculations determine you've been in that gear for X number of seconds. The default value for X is 3 seconds, but you can alter this in App settings from between 0 and 30 seconds.

Wheel Circumference Tolerance:

• When calculating the circumference of your wheel (including tyre), we should consider the impact of the riders' weight and the pressure of the tyres - as this will reduce the actual diameter of your wheel, whilst riding. As such, it's good practice to deduct 2mm from the roll-out circumference.
• This setting allows you to override the default setting of 2mm to between 0 and 10mm. Why would you do this? If you run bigger tyres, perhaps at a lower pressure, then the true diameter of your wheel will not be accurate as defined by measuring wheel diameter and tyre diameter. This doesn't matter for measuring speed and distance on most Garmin devices as GPS tracks your distance over time to arrive at a speed. However, developers do not have access to the wheel size "auto" calculation that garmin updates, so we must collect this settings data from you in order to have all of the variables to make the proper calculations.

Please visit the 'Compatible Devices' TAB on my Garmin device page, here:

In The Zone App Page