Planned course does not show total elevation gain

Several people have asked this same question lately. As far ask I can tell you can't get this information without following the course (or creating a course from an existing workout). I know that you can do this with strava. From there you can download a gpx or tcx version of the file. Once you have that, you just need to get the course onto your device or into Garmin Connect. Instructions for getting the course onto your device will vary by device, and I just did a quick test and I couldn't upload an exported Strava course to Garmin Connect at all.

Edit: I was able to upload the tcx/gpx data by adding time points to the position data. This makes Garmin Connect think it is a workout, but I can easily convert this to a course. I think I could write up a xslt transform to do this pretty easily. i.e., I can write a tool to convert a strava course gpx/tcx into something Garmin Connect can consume.

You might also be able to do it on similar sites ridewithgps.com or mapmyride.com.

Travis

I was hoping this would work as well, since Connect refuses to apply elevation correction to the routes I have run. But after painstakingly mapping out the route... no elevation gain number appears.

Agreed, I'm having this same problem. Mapping a route on Garmin Connect and uploading to my 810 via my iphone. I always like to know how far I've got until the top of a climb!! Response to Garmin so far have been poor.

I've struggled with the lack of this feature for a long time. When you are climbing canyon roads in Colorado the planned elevation gain is just as important as the mileage. In some cases I would say its the most important piece. The only work around is that the course shows up as a side profile at the bottom and you are able to make a rudimentary guess on the elevation gain. Just hold the cursor over the beginning of the climb and it shows the elevation and then go to the top and do the same, then do the math to see the elevation difference.

WTF, fix this Garmin

Old courses vs newly created courses and other glitchy stuff

I wonder why the elevation used to show when courses were created and now they do not. While creating a course tonight it was showing the profile and now that I have saved the course its vanished. Also, interestingly enough the course is 202km as plotted and this shows when the course is opened but when I see it on the summary page it shows the course as 195km. Why is garmin connect such a glitchy beast and why do we continue to support garmin when they dont support us right back!? Mystery to me! I am stuck with the device until it dies ... again (and then they decide not to replace it)!

I cannot locate the file on the garmin to export manually!! Jeeze why is this so damn glitchy.

Who knows what the actual elevation gain is ..... even if you could plan a ride on Garmin Connect? There is lots of hypothesis out there [or what ever they are] using math processors, US land survey data and what ever else peeps smarter than me can find but I'm none the wiser. I, like our friend Kurt in Colorado, like to have a good handle on how much climbing I am going to do when heading out for a decent ride.

So by example .... for a 350k race leg I have the following;

.gpx race route file - loaded on to Ride With GPS [on their web page] is 2189Vm
Edge 810 of actual ride 3532Vm
Route 'plan' on RWGPS 2677Vm
Route 'plan' on MapMyRide 2379Vm
Import my Edge 810 actual ride .gpx file to RWGPS 2583Vm
Import my Edge 810 actual ride .gpx file to STRAVA 3028Vm

If anyone has a sound theory that gets me closer to the 'actual' Vm I'm going to ride, I'll plan accordingly. At the moment my best theory is to total them, divide by six = 2731Vm and the answer is 'plan' with RWGPS.