More data fields needed for Shoes

Workaround for shoe tracking

What I've done is create a "Course" and given it a name that equates to the shoes I want to track. I don't enter any course info (miles, route, etc.), just a course name. For example I have a "Brooks Radius" course, a "New Balance 1080" course, and a "New Balance MT625" course.

When I enter a run I select the appropriate "Course" that matches the shoe I wore for that run.

When I want to check the mileage for a specific shoe I go to Activities, then I filter the activities by Course, export the results to a .csv file, then it's just a matter of creating a formula to total up the mileage column.

I know it's not perfect, but until Garmin adds an equipment field (which they claimed they were working on three years ago) it works.

NOT YET? Software/website developers... you can do better!

What are you waiting for Garmin Team, we need it.

Kudos to DLPARTNER for coming up with an innovative way to get around a lacking feature (shoe/equipment mileage tracker) that really should be a complete no-brainer for Garmin Connect.

I'm still using Sport Tracks basically SOLELY for their equipment tracking option. :eek:

C'MON GARMIN! Get with the program!! :(

Shoe Mileage Tracking Request

Garmin, what's taking so long with the updates to Garmin Connect? You keep trying to show off Garmin Connect, but you still have a couple of major omissions. First, please add an easy way to track mileage on equipment (mileage on multiple pairs of shoes/bikes, etc). Second, add a "friend" feature so that we can easily see how our friends are doing with their workouts. Third, now that you have a real swimming watch, add a swimming PR section like you have for running/biking.

This site has really come a long way over the past few years, but there are still a couple of glaring omissions that users have repeatedly asked for. Those omissions keep a lot of users from making this their go to site.

PS - Thanks to the user that posted the custom course method as a workaround for Garmin's lack of equipment tracking.

+1. Very important data to many runners. Simple addition. In fact, adding the option for "Custom field" where users can add a field and track any metric they want, would be an even better solution. A tad harder to implement than a straight field to the database, but much more useful in the long run.

I'm entering a keyword that indicates the shoes to use for activities.

The keyword filtering works well on the menu "Activities" but I have for example 130 activities with a pair of running shoes and to know the total amount of kms. I should export to excel, and it is done by pages, not total filtered records which makes it very inconvenient to have to export a lot of pages to put them together and make the summation.

Another possibility, If I go to the Analyze section -> Reports I have a summation but I can not filter by keyword.

Just having a field with name or number of shoes on Report would be great or to export all the registers on just 1 excel not 20.

Is there a trick or some way to get the total kms done with a running shoes easily made​​?

No one uses the 'Event type' field on Garmin Connect. Allow users to modify that field to equipment type such as shoes or bikes. I am using this currently. I know that when I select training then that is my ONs and selecting race is my Newtons. I can later check to see how many miles I logged under either training or racing to see the mileage for each shoe type.

For what it's worth, I've been doing this at http://www.logyourrun.com/

If you create an account there, you can easily import a training session from connect.garmin.com, you just need the activity number:

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/xxxxxxxxx

and also the time (though not necessary, it just doesn't import it for some reason).

You can add shoes at logyourrun, including several active pairs, designate a pair as the default to use, and even retire a pair. When you import a session, it will tell you how much distance you've currently put on the given pair of shoes.

I'd still prefer Garmin added a similar field on their site, but for now others might find this easier.