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Foot Orienteering, MTB Orienteering and Ski Orienteering

Former Member over 5 years ago

Please add "Foot Orienteering", "MTB Orienteering" and "Ski Orienteering" as sports :

Orienteering is not running, is not trail running, is not hiking... and certainly not treasure hunting lol !

Orienteering is a navigation sport, one of Garmin's numerous expertise.

Competitors (S**nto, P*l*r) are not ignoring Orienteering, they are draining more and more impatient Garmin users.

0 trux over 5 years ago

Just add it as a custom sport on your watch. There are thousands of sports not listed, but anyone can add theirs.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Hi Trux, once my workout is over, under which sport is it going to be displayed in Connect ? Sorry for asking I'm using a very old garmin watch without custom activity settings.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

It depends how you create it. Either you create it as a Custom type, and in that case it appears in the category Other, or you define it as a clone of a Running or Trail Running, and then it will be listed under the original category.

I'm using a very old garmin watch without custom activity settings.

What watch do you use? You do not seriously expect Garmin adding any new sports to a very old watch, anyway, or do you?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Expecting a firmware update for a very old watch is obviously not the point. What I need is Foot Orienteering sport to be available in Connect Web's sports list, as a Running sub-activity (where I can currently see Virtual Racing, Treadmill racing, and more serious ones like Track running, Trail running). The same for MTB Orienteering as a Cycling sub-activity, and Ski Orienteering as a Ski sub-activity. The point is manually updating my workout activity once it's synchronized and available in Connect Web.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Just keep it under the respective existing category, and edit the title so that includes some tag that will help you distingusihing beween the regular and the orienteering variants. For eample "[OR] Easy Run". When doing it consistently, you can then not only sort the list by the name, you can also use the search box to filter out activities of certain type, exactly as if you had a separate subcategory for that specific type. And of course, you can do it even with your old watch.