Garmin Coach Half Marathon Plan - Where did I go wrong?

[xsquared]

Treated myself to a Vivoactive 4S a month ago and I am on week 5 of the half marathon plan and did the time trial run today.

The steps of the time trial are:
-Warm up 0.5mi
-Until lap press
-Run - 5 min
Cool down 0.5 mi

I wasn't entirely certain what "until lap press" meant and thought you had to press the button to start timing your run after the warm up, but that only stopped it so I had to press it again IYSWIM.
I ran the 5 minutes and expected something to happen then, but ended up stopping the workout completely when nothing happened. Only ended up running 0.75 miles after the warm up and messed it up!

Could someone more knowledgeable tell me what I was meant to do please? Do I need to press anything after the warm up? When should my watch beep after the main run?

Thank you.

There are 2 buttons - top one pauses activity and the bottom one is the lap button I think.

So you start the warm up then after at least 0.5m (in my case when I get to the nice flat bit ) you press the bottom lap button which should start the 5 minute count.

But it's been a while so I'm not 100% sure!

Thanks @FusionChefGeoff. I was playing with my watch just now but I have accidentally set the timer to stop after 5 seconds of running and I can't get it back. I'll look something up..

I have a different garmin but top right is the stop/start and bottom right is the lap button. Or is it one of the button-less ones? If it's a pre-set workout then start it, run 0.5miles for your warm up then hit the lap button and it will time 5 minutes then beep at you to change into cool down.

Basically you hit the lap button (circled on mine) when you're ready to do the time trial

I always thought the watch was just being a pain asking me to press a button, until I finished my warm up at the bottom of a massive hill and decided to postpone the time trial for a little bit

When you've done the 5 mins it should beep/vibrate to tell you you're done and then you just jog for a bit, and press 'stop' when you're completely finished in the usual way

Thanks everyone. It seems I've been pressing the wrong button on both time trials.

@emmathedilemma I have the Vivoactive 4S which has 2 buttons. The one at the top is the one I kept pressing but I should have been pressing the bottom one.

oh these watches do so much more than you'd ever imagine! I've only recently started using the workouts function and whilst it's useful, it's a blooming nuisance if you hit the wrong button!

I did the same thing! There’s a very useful Facebook group called ‘Garmin Runners Facebook Community’ which is good for advice and tips.

Thank you @Sammysquiz, I've just been accepted as a member of the FB group.