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How to set course type?

Former Member over 11 years ago

Looking at my list of courses through the android app I notice that some have a runner icon and some a cyclist icon, and the latter shows the elevation gain, but I don't know how they were set that way.

How do I configure courses as a cycling type?

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

I believe that the course type is only there for courses created from activities. i.e., if you have a run activity and click the Save as Course button in the button bar, you will get a run course. If you create the course manually using the course editor, it won't have a type and it won't have elevation data.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I think you are correct in that my courses that show as a cycle type were created from activities. But those that were created as a course have the type of "run", but I don't see where that is set. I only do cycling.

0 travis.vitek over 11 years ago

I looked at the course data using the Garmin Connect Web API, and I see this for a course created using Garmin Connect.

"workoutJson": {
"workoutId": 6668221,
"workoutName": "Untitled",
"sourceType": "COURSE_CREATOR",
"sourceId": 0,
"activityTypeJson": {
"key": "street_running",
"display": "Street Running",
"id": {
"idValue": 7
}
},

If I create a course from a cycling activity, I see this

"workoutJson": {
    "workoutId": 6725040,
    "workoutName": "Brick Ride [Felt B12]",
    "sourceType": "ACTIVITY",
    "sourceId": 506278400,
    "activityTypeJson": {
      "key": "road_biking",
      "display": "Road Cycling",
      "id": {
        "idValue": 10
      }
    },

I don't see any way in the Garmin Connect interface to modify this data. I'm sure the data could be specified and then uploaded via the web service, but I'm not interested enough to work out a way to do it.

Travis