Hello - the new "add manual activity" functionality is great - but can I edit the distance of an uploaded activity - e.g. my 310xt recorded my time and heart rate on the treamill but (as I don't have the footpod) I would like to manually enter in the distance (I get this from the treadmill)....I thought I read this was possible, but can't see anyway of editing it....thanks
The ability to edit distance would also be great for mountain bike riding. My Edge 305 always is around 10% low on distance when riding trails. It is dead on on the road. The link below is a recent ride that my Edge measured at 16.67 miles, but my Cateye (calibrated to the Edge on the road) measured 18.57. This happens on every ride, regardless of the recording option selected (smart recording or every second recording).
This would be so useful. I too am doing a lot of training on the treadmill at the moment. I have HR and time via my 405cx. However, I can't input the distance in Garmin Connect or Garmin Training Center..
Same here! A lot of us have to do some training indoors when the snow keeps pouring down, and it's quite annoying to not be able to set the distance on my FR-405 treadmill runs. I can add an activity, but then I loose my heart rate overview. I could also buy a footpod and get close to correct distance, but it should be possible to just set the distance in GC.
Same here! A lot of us have to do some training indoors when the snow keeps pouring down, and it's quite annoying to not be able to set the distance on my FR-405 treadmill runs.
Gard
Snow? Solved that problem by moving to San Diego :)
I vote for this feature as well. In fact, rather than just add the ability to modify the distance traveled, how about a ".tcx editor" application? The file format is XML based and openly published, we might not even need Garmin to do it for us.
There ya go, Foxe 2.4, a free xml editor that really works great.
I recommend that the first thing you do after opening a file with Foxe is to do a "save as" and change the name a little bit, maybe add the word "edited", before you start. That way if you mess up you still have the original file.
If you install Foxe2.4 and open a tcx file to edit the distance you will want to go down the file a few lines to the first mention of <DistanceMeters> and the number after it should be zero if you were on a trainer. Change that zero to your meters and save it and then open the new edited file in TC to see what happens. I have never tried it but I think the only thing that will happen is the file will show a total distance instead of zero but you will still not have distance in the profile, only time.
You can use notepad to edit the TCX file, right click the file you need to add distance data to, select "open with" and then "Notepad". Use Edit / Find and search for "Distance".
My setting are for kilometers and the first "find" is
"<DistanceMeters>0.0000000</DistanceMeters>"
To change the distance run to 11.4kms:
"<DistanceMeters>11400.0000000</DistanceMeters>"
Save the file.
The next time I imported a workout the distance was correctly showing for the treadmill workout. I suggest you save a copy of your workouts when doing this.
