Name: IRON RACE - Triathlon Race & Fuel Field
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Falkster

One full-screen field for the whole long-course triathlon (140.6 / 70.3 / Olympic). Add it to every leg of your triathlon activity and it switches by itself: swim, T1, bike, T2, run. Garmin keeps recording your triathlon natively; IRON RACE adds what the watch never tells you.

Setup guide, race-day instructions and FAQ: https://tri.falkster.com

ON EVERY LEG
• Race clock from the gun. It never resets at T1/T2 and survives a crash or a mis-detected transition.
• Cutoff guardian: your projected margin at the next cutoff (swim, bike, finish). Presets for full and half distance, editable for your race.
• Projected finish and minutes ahead of or behind your plan.
• A race timeline ring around the bezel: planned legs, the race so far, cutoffs as red ticks.

PER LEG
• SWIM: swim time big, swim cutoff margin. No noise from open-water pace or wrist HR.
• T1 / T2: transition time against your target, what comes next.
• BIKE: 3/10/30 s smoothed power coloured against your target and cap, live normalized power and IF against your target IF, HR. No power meter? HR mode.
• RUN: rolling pace against your goal (red if you start too fast), HR against your cap (lower for the first 10 km, lower again in heat), run-walk timer.

FUEL LEDGER
• Set your gel size and carbs per hour for the bike and the run. IRON RACE works out the interval for you: 25 g at 75 g/h is a prompt every 20 minutes.
• Runs on race time: it never resets at transitions and keeps working in structured workouts.
• Carbs taken against your plan, shown as grams behind. You fuel against your plan, not against calories burned.
• Drink prompts from your fluid per hour, optional salt prompts, heat mode.
• Prompts vibrate, beep and fill the screen. They are spaced so they never stack up.
• Logging: prompts count as taken, or on touch watches that pass taps to fields, tap the field to log (untapped prompts repeat).
• Carbs and fluid are written to your activity file.

SET IT UP ONCE
Pick the distance, your FTP and your fuel numbers in the Connect IQ app. Everything else has sensible defaults: plan splits, cutoffs, IF 0.70, a power cap at 90% of FTP. Start a long ride or run on its own and it becomes a training session: that leg against its plan, fuel prompts included. That makes it ideal for rehearsing race day.

EVERY SETTING (Connect IQ app on your phone)
• Race: Full (3.8 / 180 / 42.2 km), Half (1.9 / 90 / 21.1), Olympic (1.5 / 40 / 10) or custom distances.
• Plan: your minutes for swim, T1, bike, T2 and run (0 uses the preset's plan).
• Cutoffs: swim, bike and finish, in minutes from the gun (0 uses the preset).
• Bike: FTP (0 = no power meter, heart-rate mode), target IF (0.70), power cap (90% of FTP), power smoothing 3, 10 or 30 s, bike HR cap.
• Run: goal pace (or from your plan), run HR cap, a lower cap for the first 10 km (5 bpm), run-walk minutes and walk seconds.
• Fuel: carbs per gel (25 g), carbs per hour on the bike (80 g) and run (50 g), first fuel (15 min into the bike), fluid per hour (600 ml), drink per prompt (150 ml), salt every N minutes.
• Logging: prompts count as taken, or tap the field to log (touch watches).
• Heat mode: more fluid, fewer run carbs.

HOW TO ADD IT
In your triathlon activity, add IRON RACE as a 1-field data screen on the swim, T1, bike, T2 and run legs. One Connect IQ slot leaves room for your power or core-temperature field.

Good to know
• Garmin doesn't let Connect IQ fields read button presses, and LAP is the leg-change key, so IRON RACE never uses LAP.
• Open-water GPS distance is approximate; the swim view leads with time.
• Not affiliated with IRONMAN or the World Triathlon Corporation.

One-time purchase. No subscription, no account, no internet permission.
Website and support: https://tri.falkster.com