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Can we clone an activity from a previous day ?

Ricardo_A
over 7 years ago
Friday my Garmin had no battery so I did my workout without it.

However the workout was exactly the same than Wednesday and time was aprox the same.

Can I, somehow, clone the Wednesday activity but make it appear on Friday ? Would be useful for stats.

If not, what are the alternatives ? Manual entry ?
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Can I, somehow, clone the Wednesday activity but make it appear on Friday ? Would be useful for stats.


    I don't ‘get’ you. Why would you want to ‘clone’ the activity record – which implies making a copy of it – instead of just editing it and changing the timestamp of the one-and-only activity record for it? You can change the date and time of an activity record in Garmin Connect.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    If I edit Wednesday and change date to Friday, I will lose Wednesday activity, right ?

    I want to keep Wednesday activity and have a Friday one equal to Wednesday.
  • +1 over 7 years ago
    You can't in Garmin Connect, but you can using something like SportTracks. With SportTracks you can make a copy of the activity, edit the date and export the copy for upload to Garmin Connect. There might well be other programmes available that can do that too.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    On the other hand you could also export your wednesday activity as TCX-file.
    Open it with wordpad/notepad and search for date of wednesday (2017-05-24) and replace every appearance with date of friday (2017-05-26). Save it.
    Then reimport it with https://connect.garmin.com/modern/import-data.


    This was pretty easy. Just had to open the file, find and replace all dates, save it again and import. Worked perfectly.

    Thanks to all for the help.
  • +1 over 5 years ago

    I would like to be able to copy manual activities.  I enter my gym workouts into Garmin Connect and I rotate through several predictable workout routines. The ability to copy a previous activity would be a time saver. Exporting, editing and importing takes about as much time as a whole new manual entry.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 7052469

    I would love to do this, and have never found a way.   Yes, entering an entire weight-machine workout with all those many dropdown menus, etc. takes *forever*, and it's almost the same each time!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to philschaefer

    Do it just like  explained above. You can do it even simpler and quicker without the need to edit the file at all:

    1. Export the file in TCX format (it wouldn't work with the FIT file)
    2. Change the time and/or date of the original activity in GC
    3. Import the TCX file

    Now you have two identical activities, each with a different time stamp.

    However, I find copying an activity unwise. That's the role of the watch, and should not be done manually. When you copy an activity, all data (HR, temperature, elveation profile, movent,...) will be faked, just a copy of another activity, not the true monitoring of a real activity. I don't see any sense in doing it. You better simply start the activity manually on your watch, and let it record for you. This is what it was made for.

    If you follow a scheduled workout, all the stages of the workout will be stored along with the true data, so I really do not understand the need of faking the activity artificially by copying an existing one.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    You would want to do this when you create the original activity manually after the fact, so there is no monitoring data to worry about.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I look exactly for the same! On from my point of view adding the feature 'copy activity' can't be a development issue for garmin devs. Both named 'kinda' solutions are just bad workarounds.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Garmin Connect was designed for storing data recorded by your Garmin device, hence cloning existing activities makes no sense, and there is no reason why Garmin should imlement such option. If you are not able to do the same activity today as you did yesterday, you should not be copying the old actvity just to fool yourself (or whoever else) with the faked stats.

    Cloning makes sense only in very exceptional cases - for example if you lost an activity due to battery power shortage, and could not save it, and for such cases, the above mentioned workarouds are just fine.