I did a triathlon a couple of weeks ago. I recorded the whole thing as multi-sport event on my Forerunner 945 and I also recorded the bike on my Edge 830. I made one error in what I recorded on my 945 which was that I didn’t tap the lap button to indicate the end of Transition 1, and the beginning of the bike until later than when I actually left transition. I did record the beginning of the bike (and the end of the bike) properly on the Edge 830. So, my multisport activity in Garmin Connect has a long Transition 1, and the bike (from the 945) is shorter than actually was. And I have a separate activity in Garmin Connect for the proper bike ride. But it bugs me to have the triathlon activity with an error in one of the 3 legs and then a separate bike ride (that is accurate) in Garmin Connect that is redundant, messing up totals for the week, month etc.
I tried to solve this myself with https://www.fitfiletools.com. I used the Section Remover tool and was going to just try to have an accurate activity for the swim only (removing all other parts of the multisport activity), and an accurate run activity (extracted from the multisport file, removing all other parts of the multisport activity). Then having the accurate swim and run from the 945 would be fine with the accurate bike from the Edge. I don’t care as much about accurately recording the transitions and most importantly want to just have the swim, bike and run be accurate, with nothing overlapping or duplicate in my Garmin Connect. If I can also have the accurate transitions recorded, I'll take it! Using the section remover tool, it didn’t work - I was able to download a .fit file, but when I tried to upload it to GC, after deleting the multisport activity so that GC didn’t say the upload was a duplicate activity, it then rejected the uploads for unspecified reasons - every time. Tried both the swim and the run, tried multiple times. So I am stuck!
I have attached the files in a link at the bottom of this post. There is the full multisport activity (with the T1 end and bike start errors), and my proper bike activity (from the Edge 830) here.
Ideally, I’d like to get help from the community to:
1. have a corrected multisport activity (that shows power, cadence, HR, GPS etc for the whole bike leg, including the part that was recorded on the 945 as part of T1 - all of that is available in the Edge-recorded activity, maybe power, cadence etc are in the 945's file I just can't see them in the transition in Garmin Connect)
2. OR, if that’s not possible or easy to do, then I’d like to have the Swim, T1, T2, and Run extracted from the multisport file as individual activities, and have the T1 shortened properly to align with the beginning of the ride in the Edge. Then I’d have the full triathlon accurate as 5 separate activities (Swim, T1, Bike, T2, Run)
3. OR - simplest, most basic solution would just be extraction of the swim and run from the multisport file, no extraction of T1 and T2 and no correction for T1. If options 1 and 2 are not feasible, I'd be grateful for 3!
Looking at the multisport file - it appears that my bike ride actually began at about 4:45 in Transition 1, when the speed of running (gingerly) with my bike through transition goes down from 5.5 mph to 0 mph, before I mount the bike. 4:45 also provides the accurate GPS location for the exit from T1. T1 is recorded as 7:56, so it seems my bike leg was about 3:11 longer than what is recorded in the multisport file (2:38:02), so that would be around 2:41:13, and my Edge recorded 2:40:24 - I probably didn't hit start on my bike until I had mounted and begun riding so that woudl explain the 50 second difference.
How are you able to edit these files properly when I can not with fitfiletools? Once I have an accurate multisport activity, is there a way to split it up into 5 activities? Or is there a way to take 5 separate activities and combine them into 1 multisport activity or is this all magic only Garmin can do?
Thanks so much for your help!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M3rwCsAJ9039Y45zGm8H4IjSgsGgON-L?usp=sharing
