Hi Mike,
No, unfortunately there is no facility for you to bypass it.

We have recognised that it might be a problem, and  have a fix in place, however we won’t be releasing it until the next firmware revision as we also have a bunch of additional enhancements  which require the new firmware version.This is indicated to be before Christmas, but Garmin’s forecasts are a bit fluid!

And yes, it looks like we’ll be back supporting raceQs on Garmin, not only the Vivoactive-HR, but also on the Fenix5/Quatix5 range and Forerunner recent models, but not the Vivoactive-3 at present.