Garmin edge 500 - lap function?

Four of a kind

Just wondering what's the function of the lap button on the edge? I've never used it as I just have my auto pause set up and never have to do anything else on a spin other than press stop at the end.

I don't know how to use the lap function or what it does tbh. Could anyone care to explain it to me?

Thanks.

Cookie_Monster

lets you time laps would be the most obvious example, if you are repeating the same course a couple of times in a row for comparison purposes.

you can also set a lap to be a set distance or time, 5km for example and then you can break your spin down into 5km sections.

Not so much you for a casual user I suppose but if you were training on a set course it'd let you see each lap and better able you to comare where your losing time and improve, or just set your own PBs

07Lapierre

Have you pressed the button? if not, press it and run!

Beasty

Every time you press the button it treats it as the end of a "lap", meaning you can analyse data between specific points rather than over the whole ride

You can also set it to automatically create a new lap aevery time you pass the same point on a circuit, or at set distances/time (say every 10km)

EDIT - like wot Cookie Monster sed

Esroh

You can set a distance to be timed/average speed etc.
If you set it at 5km then in 60km you get 12 laps.
It just shows you how things went over sections of your ride

Junior

I used it last night in a TT - 10 minutes on 2 minutes Recovery until done, so it broke down the overall TT into readable sections.