Assigning default gear for individual activities

I just bought a pair of trail running shoes in addition to my road running shoes. I'd like to set up Garmin Connect such that when I choose 'run' on my Fenix 3, my road running shoes are linked and when I choose 'trail run' it knows that I'll be using the trail running shoes.

Currently I can only select 'other' when I choose an activity assigned to my trail running shoes, 'trail running' is not listed as an option under gear settings.

I have the same problem with my road and mountain bike.

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0 Janus101 over 3 years ago

Is it possible to have default equipment for different activities. For example when I do a road run garmin adds my road shoes and when I choose trailrun as activity garmin will add my trail shoes and not my road shoes

0 olni65 over 3 years ago in reply to Janus101

Not on that level - default equipment only exists for the main type (i.e. running). Both road run and trail run will go under "Running" and there can only be one default.

0 Janus101 over 3 years ago in reply to olni65

Surely it can't be that difficult to assign different shoes to different running activities as default?

0 BunBun! over 3 years ago in reply to Janus101

That's true, you can make a script for that: How to affect an equipment to an activity?.

0 Greg.Hunger over 3 years ago

Because my watch tracks Running and Trail Running as separate activity types and I wear different shoes for these activities I’d like the ability to automatically add my Trail Shoes to Trail Running Activities

0 Shafir over 3 years ago in reply to SupaMonkey

Can you please PLEASE fix this annoying UX of default gear for activity?

There are dozens of activities you can choose from in the app but when you set default gear for activity there are only 6 that are hard coded.

So if you are an ultra runner with 3 sets of shoes, you will have to set all Gear to be default to "run" and then manually change to "Trail run" since it's not a default activity.

what is the logic in that?!

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to Shafir

Don't use a default, Then add whatever shoes used after the activity has uploaded. I find that easier, since I rotate several types of trail running shoes throughout the week. So even if Garmin Connect was able to set a default shoe for trail running, likely it would be incorrect.

0 Shafir over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

This is not really a solution since it requires you to edit gear which is the same as for switching shoes.

It is really a simple UX and code fix that should have been avoided by a good product team.

+1 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to Shafir

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0 Niklas over 3 years ago in reply to Fabiocp85

And now its the later half of 2021, and still not fixed. What is the issue with this?