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Request - Laps and Courses

Former Member over 13 years ago

Unless I'm mistaken, two critical and potentially easily fixed features are missing from GC.

1. Make this lap a course - it would be nice to be able to make a lap, rather than an entire activity into a course. When doing time trials I don't have time to reset and start a new activity for every lap, but would like to be able to save a loop as a course without counting every lap as part of the course.

2. Compare data at any point on a route over different laps. Currently if I ride 5x5km laps I can view the whole thing in player and see my HR etc at various points. However, I can't compare this lap on lap. I want to be able to choose a specific point and see my data at that point across all laps.

Do others agree these will be useful?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Yes, very useful. I found your post while searching for a solution. I’m new to Garmin courses. Have just started using an Edge 800 on my bike. I’m working towards a long ride later in the year and know I need to improve my climbing capability. No long sustained climbs where I live and train, so I’ve mapped some ‘hill loops’ to repeat climbs multiple times in a session. I’d want the functionality you’re looking for to just set go on my 1 lap course, but say I want to do it x, y or z times (laps). Still searching. Will note back if I find anything useful.

So far the best suggestion has been setting a one lap course, turning off turn by turn navigation and setting auto lap by location (not distance). You don’t get navigation, but do get lapping. I haven’t tried it yet but sounds like it might achieve question 1.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well, the original post is 8 year long. I do not know how it was then, but recently there is no problem creating a course just for one lap. However, using Segments seems to be better suited for this purpose, to me.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Thanks for the attention. So what are the steps to have a course that represents one lap and then tell the device you want to do the course, but you want to do (say) five laps? One start, one finish, and navigation/tbt throughout.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

you want to do (say) five laps? One start, one finish, and navigation/tbt throughout.

I admit I did not think someone would need the navigation for every pass through the same track again and again, five times, but that's probably because I forgot that also other people, not only myself, can suffer from Alzheimer

Well, if a single lap with navigation would satisfy you, you could just create a sector matching the lap, and then when you repeat going through it again and again, it would record the matching sector automatically, and you could view your lap statistics in the sector details, without any need to start it again and again.

If you really need the navigation for every pass, then the best way would be creating the course for one lap, exporting it in the TCX (or GPX) file format, opening it notepad, copying all the inner track, pasting it additional four times, saving, and then reimporting back to GC. In this way you would have a course containing five identical laps.