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Custom PR

7529345
over 1 year ago

Why not offer the ability for customized PR results?  I'm training for my fastest mile at the moment, so I'd like to see my 100m, 200m, 400m, 800, and 1600m PRs (from training workouts...not within the mile itself).  In the past, I've also run 50km baby ultras, so why not offer the ability to add any distance at all for which we want to track PRs?

I see many similar feature requests from 8-10 years ago.  Why still not available?  Seems simple.  I can understand limiting the list for what Garmin analyzes and pools data for comparison between athletes, but I want access to this data even if I'm the only one seeing or benefiting from it.

Additionally, you should be able to drill in on the PR screen to see your other attempts and be able to sort by date, time, or any other number of data fields (though those are the two that I would use).

Like others have mentioned before, there are certain courses that I run often...we should have the ability to drill into the course and see the history of doing the activity on that course and the ability to sort by date, time, or other data fields.  If I can easily see my fastest time on a course, I can create a PacePro plan that takes a minute off of the total time for example.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Instead of a Course - create a Segment. It's basically the same thing, but a Segment auto detects when you pass it and has a sortable list of times.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Course is for navigation, not for tracks you run or ride regularly, where you probably do not need any navigation. As BunBun! wrote, Segments are designed for the purpose you are looking for. They come with leadebords, stats, and personal ranking.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to BunBun!

    That sounds like a good workaround...I've never really looked at Garmin segments because Strava seems to have a much much larger catalogue of them.  Would a segment offer turn by turn directions?  I'm thinking not.  While it's certainly not needed for a course that is done often, I create a course when I'm targeting a specific distance.  If we could easily duplicate a course to a segment, that'd be cool.  Thanks for the segment tip!

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    I hear you.  Makes sense.  I only added the course comment as a sidebar because while searching the forum for my main ask, I saw someone ask about course records and I thought it a good idea as well.  My main ask is the custom distance PRs.  Thanks for your response!

  • 0 over 1 year ago
    7529345 said:
    If we could easily duplicate a course to a segment, that'd be cool.

    You can create a segment from any of your past activities (or from a part of an activity). I have plenty of segments on tracks that I run frequently, which allows me to follow my progress on shorter distances easily.