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Editing/Truncating a Workout Log

I am using a 405CX. I forgot to turn off the workout /training tracking. So it recorded not only my ~2 hour bike ride but my 1 hour of putting the bike in car, talking w/ friends, stopping to get iced coffee, etc...

Is there a way to edit, or "crop", the history of a workout session and delete a section, the way one would edit an MP3 file in audio editing software? To be clear, this would be editing it once it is already uploaded to Garmin Connect.

Thanks, Dan

0 PoorDanPoor over 15 years ago

Support.... Are you there?

Support, can you reply Yes or No, regarding this capability?:D

0 BLAZINCAJUN over 15 years ago

Workout truncation

Yes, you can edit the gpx file that you download. First make a backup and scroll trough the xml file and find where you think you finished your work out ended either by time or by distance. Delete the extra stuff until you get to the ending scripts. You may also have to adjust the sum of miles and average hear rate to reflect your workout when it ended. After several attempts it worked.

0 PoorDanPoor over 15 years ago

Potential product enhancement

Thanks. Editing the raw XML is not user friendly.

Quick, easy, GUI-based route/routine editing would be a nice feature for the next Rev of this software.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Thanks. Editing the raw XML is not user friendly.

Quick, easy, GUI-based route/routine editing would be a nice feature for the next Rev of this software.

Did this ever get fixed? I did a ride last week that I would like to capture, but forgot to hit stop before I put my bike in the car and now have 50 extra miles. How do I fix this? Editing XML files is not an option as I have no idea what an XML file is.

Thanks

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Its not possible on Garmin Connect. You can edit the file in some other software, before uploading it.
eg try Garmin BaseCamp - it is fairly easy to split the track, to delete the section you don't want. Then export as a GPX or TCX file to upload. Though BaseCamp will lose any lap data, if your track has that.

0 KAENAT over 11 years ago

I forgot to hit "end" on my 610 and my run ended up being 46 hours instead of the 1hr 18min that it actually was. Would be nice to just chop off the end that did nothing but mess up the data from that run...so frustrating! Seems like it would be a simple thing to just "crop" like you say. I'm really surprised and disappointed in how limited the editing is.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

upload the .fit file to here or to dropbox (don't forget to share the link) and I'll see if I can trim the 44odd hours off the end of it using the Fit File Repair Tool.

cheers
Mike

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Development suggestion

/Rant Start
Absolutely agree that the "Connect" website is failing to meet this fairly reasonable need. It is not brilliant. In a wider sense it seems to be that the focus for Garmin Connect is more about locking us in (You can't get at the raw data) but we were so busy with lock in we didn't do a set of stunning features. Delighted to be locked in by features and functions. If you could make the software even half as good a s the hardware with well thought through and more features that are easy to use I would happily spend a lot more time on the site as opposed to the hassle time I have uploading just to download to some software on my PC. Even then this time wasting function Upload, translate, download seems to loose data and there is so little to go at I can't even start to solve the problem. Is it the recorder or the upload, or the translation or the download. I'll never know so the upshot is my Garmin device is only enabled to give me incomplete data and incomplete analysis.

Whole thing has the feel of "not quite finished but our main aim was lock-in and then we got busy somewhere else". Nanny Garmin wrote a list of what she thought we might need and that's yer lot. No individual flexibility, little enablement of your passionate users.

Like I say if the software was half as flexible and accommodating as the hardware it would be brilliant.

/Rant End