Name: Lap Steps
Author: ekozynin

How many steps did you take in this lap? Garmin's built-in fields show distance, pace, and time per lap — but not steps. Lap Steps does exactly that.

Add it as a data field to any activity profile that uses laps (running, interval workouts, track repeats, hike with Auto Lap on distance, walking intervals — anything where you care about per-lap effort in step terms). The field starts at 0 when you press Start and counts up while the timer is running. The moment a new lap begins — whether you pressed the lap button or Auto Lap fired (distance, time, position, HR zone, workout step, anything Garmin counts as a lap) — the field snaps back to 0 and counts your new lap from there.

What it does:
- Displays the steps you have taken in the current lap.
- Resets to 0 on every lap event: manual lap button presses, Auto Lap (by distance, time, position, or HR), workout step transitions, session-end laps.
- Freezes during pause (manual or Auto Pause) and during stop.
- Resumes from the frozen value when you press Start again.
- Returns to 0 when you discard or reset the activity.
- Re-baselines silently at midnight if the activity crosses local midnight.
- Records the per-lap step count into the FIT file as a custom lap field named "Lap Steps". Every lap row in the saved activity carries its own step total, so when you review the activity in Garmin Connect you can compare steps across laps the same way you compare distance and time. (View these in the Garmin Connect mobile app — Connect's web view currently has trouble rendering custom per-lap fields.)

What it does not do:
- It does not show a running total for the whole activity. For that, install our companion app Activity Steps.
- It does not distinguish manual lap presses from Auto Lap — both reset the count.

Want a cumulative total for the whole activity? Install Activity Steps.