There is no HYROX activity on a Garmin, and the multisport mode wasn't built for eight runs and eight stations. So the choice athletes describe is a bad one: record the whole thing as a run and let the stations pollute your running numbers, or record it as cardio and lose the run pace. There is a third way, and it needs one habit.
Record it as a run. Press lap at every change.
- Start a Run activity as you leave the start line.
- Press lap as you arrive at each station, and again as you leave it — one lap per run leg, one per station, in race order.
- Turn auto lap off for the day, so the watch doesn't add a lap of its own mid-station.
- Stop the activity at the finish and let it sync.
That is the whole recipe. Octane reads the laps in order — a run, a station, a run, a station — and lines each one up with the session's plan. The read names how it was done: “Read from your lap presses”, or “Read from your lap presses; a 1 km leg confirms the order” when a run leg's distance backs the order up.
If you forget a press
You will, at some point, and the read is built for it. Two segments that ran into one lap are named — “Two steps share one lap — a press was missed; not read” — the number is kept, and the comparison for those two is left out rather than guessed. When the laps can't be lined up with the plan at all, the read says so and reads nothing: “Octane couldn't line the laps up with the plan — the lap count doesn't match the plan's segments.”
What you get back
- “Each run and each station with its time.”
- “Each station against your own earlier sims at the same load — “30 s faster than your usual (3 sims)” — once three confirmed sims are on record.”
- “The late runs against the early ones: “Run 8 faded against runs 1–3 (+16.5%)”.”
- “Band figures are coaching practice, not a measurement.”
It never ranks a station as a weakness and never says why a split was what it was.
When Octane sent the session
A station session Octane laid out and sent to the watch arrives as a structured workout with each station a named step. The watch marks the steps itself, so the read comes from the watch's own step markers — “Read from your watch's step markers” — and a missed press stops mattering.
What about your running stats?
The session is on your record as the session it was — a station session, not a run — and it is never compared against your runs. Your easy-run heart rate, your efficiency by distance and your long-run fade point are read from plan-labelled runs only.