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 pdurys 8 months ago in reply to 00chberg

Instead of moaning about that maybe post an Idea?

I have just did such one:

There is long time reported "nice to have" feature:
forums.garmin.com/.../assigning-default-gear-for-individual-activities

Simple solution would be to have added Gear selection to Activity. We can have copies of eg Run activity. Having option to chose per each copy of Run activity would simply add distance to this pair of shoes.

Then runner would simply select Run - Training or Run - Race to switch between gears.

Hope you will implement this soon.

0 2287976 6 months ago

Est-ce possible de mettre plusieurs chaussures sur même type activité et pouvoir Choisir laquelle on utilise juste avant de faire l'activité ??

0 Shafir 6 months ago

It is just unbelievable that after 8 YEARS (eight years!!) Garmin has still not been able to fix something that would take a junior developer about 30 minutes of work.

1000$ watch, 10$ software.

Soo disappointing.

0 4572461 5 months ago

Is there any way to link specific bikes to specific bike activities without having to remember to go into 'gear' & edit the default bike, or retro link a bike to a recorded activity? This would be so very useful as the activities add kms to the default bike.

0 Mdqsantiago 4 months ago

¿No se puede asignar equipos por defecto diferentes a modalidades de carrera diferentes? Ejemplo: calzado de asfalto para carrera y calzado de trail para trail runnMas de 4 años pidiendo esta simple actualizacion y @garmin no se hace eco. hay mucha gente que hace varias disciplinas y es muy incomodo tener que editar cada ejercicio para tener una estadistica correcta de cada calzado.

0 Domoel 4 months ago

Strava introduced this feature years ago and Garmin just ignored it completely. However this feature would be quiet nice especially when it comes to different types of bike activities such as virtual rides (e.g. auto select indoor Trainer as gear) vs. outdoor activities.

0 7785372 14 days ago

I would like to have more activities available as defaults for different pairs of shoes.

Now, I can only find activities running, trekking and walking.

Specifically, I miss Treadmill and Golf. And why not Trail Run...