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Garmin Vivoactive & course leaderboard

Former Member over 9 years ago

Here is my issue.

I go a run/cycle and track the activity via my Garmin Vivoactive watch which tracks my GPS coordinates. All is good.

I then sync my watch and Garmin Connect to upload my activities. It does so and records each activity as a completely new course - perhaps because my cycle may vary by like 0.01 miles. So if tracked my cycle to work on Monday morning and then again on Tuesday morning, it doesn't recognise the same activity as the same course.

Therefore I cannot compare Monday and Tuesday cycle rides and therefore I have leaderboard for a course.

Very frustrating. Is there an obsvious thing I'm not understanding here?

Thank you.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

If I'm understanding your scenario properly, I think this will resolve the problem.

From Garmin Connect, click "Full page view" from the drop down.
From the table of your activities, click on the ride in question.
Near the top of the page, under the name of the activity (e.g., "San Diego Running"), you'll see "Event Type" dropdown and just to the right of that, "Course."
Click on "Course" and select the name of your course from the drop down (this presumes, of course, that you've already entered this as a Course in Garmin Connect.
If you haven't yet created it as a route, save one of your rides as a named course, then you can associate that course with your other rides.

I don't think Garmin Connect is smart enough to recognize a course and makes you manually associate an event with a course.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

OK - I've followed your steps (very clear - by the way - thanks!). I did a 'quick edit' and selected the reoccurring activities and assigned the same course to them all.

Now what? Apart from this view (which isn't great for visualization), where I can a see how my activities are performing over a period of time.

My natural instinct is to the click on the selected course in question, then once on the course page, below the map of my route and below the stats about elevation, I'm expecting to see my top times on this route, but there's nothing. Perhaps this is just bad user experience design from Garmin.

The only alternative I can think of - is to - export the .csv file of activities, import into Microsoft Excel and then create a graph or something - very manual work!

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance once again.