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Tracking Shoes

Hi,
Although I've been using my FR210 and Garmin Connect for over a year now, I am new the Garmin Forums. I'm hoping you can help me with a challenge that I'm having with Garmin Connect.

I've been using the comment field to include the name of the shoes that I run in so that I can track the mileage on each of my pairs of running shoes. It would be nice if Garmin included a better option for tracking shoe use, but this was the best option I could find.

So for when I want to know how many miles I have run in a pair of shoes, I filter using the shoe name as a keyword. That works fine; however the report that is produced doesn't have a total or subtotal for miles and the information can't be easily exported if it is more than one screen long. The result is that it is difficult to determine the miles run. I'm sure that others also use Garmin Connect to track their shoe miles, so I wondering what others have found works best.

Thanks for your insights!

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I just did a search and it seems that this feature has been requested for years. My running buddy was just saying that Strava does this. Come on Garmin -- how hard can it be?

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Shoe tracker

I've been using Garmin for several years now and every 6 months or so I check back to see if they have added the shoe tracker and it's always the same thing...nada. I have to use a an Excel spreadsheet to track my mileage. I've added drop-down boxes to keep track of multiple shoes. If I can do this on a spreadsheet it has to be a relatively simple program on Garmin. Can't understand why they won't add this feature.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Strava - tick
Sportracks - tick
GC - X

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I also use a spreadsheet and i also want Garmin to add this option to GC.
But i noticed this request from users many times now and i think that Garmin doesn't read this forum or does not want to listnen to it's users.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

We all use other apps just for that. You will end up just selling hardware

0 masrapido over 11 years ago

I've been using Garmin for several years now and every 6 months or so I check back to see if they have added the shoe tracker and it's always the same thing...nada. I have to use a an Excel spreadsheet to track my mileage. I've added drop-down boxes to keep track of multiple shoes. If I can do this on a spreadsheet it has to be a relatively simple program on Garmin. Can't understand why they won't add this feature.

+1, except I don't use excel. I don't track it with anything, bc I refuse to enter the same info in multiple places. Instead I tend to eyeball the data and pull a guess out of an orifice..

.. Mostly, what I wanted to contribute here is that I suspect (hope?) that Garmin's utter lack of response to this and similar issues might be because they are focusing their efforts on the Garmin Connect API, which would (will? does?) allow third parties (me! you! some Latvian Teenager!) to write custom report generators that can be run on any PC/Mac in the form of a python (e.g) script, a la this. Similarly, you could make http requests to connect.garmin.com from a google spreadsheet (excel probably supports this too) to automatically suck in the fields you care about for a given set of runs, and then you would use your spreadsheet equations to generate the report or quantity you care about, as you're doing today with the manually-entered data.

Pie in the sky? I hope not!

0 magrukal over 11 years ago

truly sad this issue...! +1 for me, refusing to do additional tracking with another software as well

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Until two months ago I was using the iphone app shoedometer to track my shoes. After the run was uploaded to Garmin Connect, I could download my run to the app and select the shoe I was using. Worked great until the release of Garmin Express. The app is now unable to download. I was at a fitness expo last week and asked a Garmin rep about the shoe tracking. Said it was number one priority on their list. Went on to say that there were legal issues they had to work out. So instead of giving a simple web based generic tracker to help me track my shoe mileage, they want to collect the data and sell it back to the shoe companies. I guess the thousand plus dollars I spent for my 910xt, shoe pod, heart strap, bike sensor and Tanita scale that works with the watch isn't enough.

0 glenntherunner over 11 years ago

Add me to the rabble clamoring for shoe tracking! Log My Run does it... it's easy breezy - so there's got to be a bored Garmin engineer with a spare 30 minutes to add this feature.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you. I'd be very very surprised if Garmin implements this considering how painfully slow they are at introducing new stuff to GC.

The easiest way to track your equipment in GC is to add a tag in the notes field, e.g #AA2 for a pair of Adidas Adios 2. Then you can search for this tag and export the csv file to sum up the kilometers.

Or you can of course switch to another service as mentioned by others :)