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Mark and Lap?

Former Member
Former Member over 12 years ago
Does anyone know how you set points before a ride so that when you set your Garmin to "Mark and Lap" It will automatically lap at that position for you? I don't know how to plot these points.

Thanks.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    On my edge500, unfortunately you have to physically go to that position and mark them. However they disappear when you reset the timer. So I have gotten into the habit of pushing the lap button as I first go by the points I'm interested in on each ride. A pain when you forget one, but it's the only way I know of.

    It'd be nice if on the Garmin Connect map of an activity if you could throw out a few markers on the map and get your segment times between them, but they don't do that either.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    There MUST be a way or else why would there be that exact feature I am trying to find out how to do. I will test an idea I have so I will report back shortly with ones investigations :rolleyes:(a day or 2)
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    There MUST be a way or else why would there be that exact feature I am trying to find out how to do. I will test an idea I have so I will report back shortly with ones investigations :rolleyes:(a day or 2)


    Whatever happened? I would like to use this "documented" feature as well. Thanks!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    Whatever happened? I would like to use this "documented" feature as well. Thanks!


    Whoops... Kinda forgot about this page but it didn't work... My idea was when you plot a point on Garmin Connect to tell the navigation thingy where to go it creates a blue dot - I thought the blue dot was where the mark and lap feature works - but obviously not. Actually I can't remember whether I did that now.. Can someone try it? If not don't worry. The nights are closing in and the temp is getting cold in the UK so I probs won't get a chance to try it for a while. If anyone knows again can someone please post how to use the mark and lap feature. Thanks.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    Whoops... Kinda forgot about this page but it didn't work... My idea was when you plot a point on Garmin Connect to tell the navigation thingy where to go it creates a blue dot - I thought the blue dot was where the mark and lap feature works - but obviously not. Actually I can't remember whether I did that now.. Can someone try it? If not don't worry. The nights are closing in and the temp is getting cold in the UK so I probs won't get a chance to try it for a while. If anyone knows again can someone please post how to use the mark and lap feature. Thanks.



    I just did this very thing yesterday with my Edge705 and it worked perfectly.

    What device are you using?
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    Where is the 'mark and lap' feature you are referring too? On the edge 500 there is a 'mark and lap' setting, but it's behavior is what I said in my first post. Garmin manuals tend to be oversimplified and lacking detailed description of what some features are supposed to be. So there is a lot of room to believe does something it simply won't, nor was intended to. I myself was a victim of preconceived ideas about laps and marking them.

    Certainly I'd like to see them work differently than they do now. But if you understand how they work now you can adapt. Also, it would be fantastic if Garmin Connect would let us mark a line across our track on the map, and anytime our track crossed that, mark that segment between it and the previous one as a lap. But so far they don't.

    They don't do that on other sites either AFAIK. But a work-around on some such as Strava, or mapmyride is to create courses that cover the segment you are interested in. Although that doesn't let you easily compare the data for repeated lap segments, it helps.

    So if you're still have issues, then take some time to detail what it is you want or are trying to do.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    I just did this very thing yesterday with my Edge705 and it worked perfectly.

    What device are you using?


    Oh so maybe it does work! I'll give it a try... when I get round to it. I'm using the Edge 200.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 11 years ago
    Where is the 'mark and lap' feature you are referring too? On the edge 500 there is a 'mark and lap' setting, but it's behavior is what I said in my first post. Garmin manuals tend to be oversimplified and lacking detailed description of what some features are supposed to be. So there is a lot of room to believe does something it simply won't, nor was intended to. I myself was a victim of preconceived ideas about laps and marking them.

    Certainly I'd like to see them work differently than they do now. But if you understand how they work now you can adapt. Also, it would be fantastic if Garmin Connect would let us mark a line across our track on the map, and anytime our track crossed that, mark that segment between it and the previous one as a lap. But so far they don't.

    They don't do that on other sites either AFAIK. But a work-around on some such as Strava, or mapmyride is to create courses that cover the segment you are interested in. Although that doesn't let you easily compare the data for repeated lap segments, it helps.

    So if you're still have issues, then take some time to detail what it is you want or are trying to do.


    I use Strava as well as Garmin Connect, but I want to be able to go past a point on a course and it automatically lap it for me as I want to know my times for certain parts of a ride when I am riding. E.G. a 5 mile loop around a popular lake area near where I live - I want to be able to know my time just as I've finished, not wait a few hours for me to upload it. It's useful because I can never remember to lap the loop when I go out.
    I understand what you're saying but Garmin wouldn't have a specific feature for this if it did not exist.

    Thanks

    From the Garmin Handbook: "Select Mark and Lap to trigger the lap counter at the GPS location marked before the ride and at any location during the ride where you select the lap button" Don't know how else to say it... this feature exists!!
  • 0 over 11 years ago
    From the Garmin Handbook: "Select Mark and Lap to trigger the lap counter at the GPS location marked before the ride and at any location during the ride where you select the lap button" Don't know how else to say it... this feature exists!!


    That's pretty much what they say in my handbook for the edge500. And that specific thing was one of my early rants on this forum when I joined. However, they don't get into detail on what that feature is intended to do or how it works. But the net result is that just like I said in my first post to this thread........ you have to physically go to that point with the edge and mark that position. That position will only remain on your edge until the timer is reset. You might note that there is no way to delete lap points. so I'd conclude that from the start, they were only meant to be temporary for that activity only.

    I'm just trying to save you some grief and frustration, I already went through what you are trying to work through. I had the added issue that for some reason, the lap points I made were not being cleared, because typically I don't reset my device. I depend on GC to reset the timer when I upload, and I believe that they were'nt clearing the lap points then, but they do now. I have no proof of that, but something changed the way my edge behaved and it wasn't me changing my procedures or firmware.
  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Dugiflopper

    This function exists in Garmin's imagination and documentation.  Over the last 15 years I've owned a Garmin Forerunner and about five different models of Edge.  All have said that Mark & Lap will trigger a lap on a previously recorded location/position.  It has never worked on any device.  I have tried and tried ands tried.  I have contacted Garmn and they tell me the same thing.  Mark your locations and the next time you pass that location, a lap will trigger you pass that location.  It just doesn't.  I've given up.  It's amazing that after a decade or more, that Garmin still claims it works!