I like the new feature where I can add shoes and track mileage. What I would really like to see added to that is the ability to add a b/fwd mileage balance so I can use the report from now on without having to mentally add pre-feature mileage or wade through my old exercises trying to remember what shoes I wore.
I would just decrease the total mileage for the shoes. The only drawback is that the percentage will not be correct, as it would calculcate just based on the remaining mileage from the date when you entered it.
A pleasant surprise when I uploaded my data today, just to see the "Add Gear" option. The new Gear Tracking feature is great! And now that we have that, I would like just a little more feature creep... ;)
The initial setup allows me to associate bikes and shoes with Cycling or Running, respectively. That is good. What I would ask for is to be able to associate specific bikes and shoes with the finer-grained activity.
For instance, I use my Mountain Bike for Mountain Bike activities, and my Road Bike for (well you get the idea). Similarly I use Trail Shoes for Trail Running and Road Shoes for Road Running. Would you be able to make the default gear be associated with the finer-grained activity detail?
Good job Garmin. Thanks for the improvement!
Matt. PS: One more little request for the watch firmware developers... Can you add Shoes to the equipment list on the watch? That will simplify the upload to use the gear selected at the time of the activity. Similar to how I can select between bikes.
I don't see an obvious way to check the total mileage on your shoes. I.e. all shoes in a list, not just one (i run with several pairs). Am i just missing something?
At last, how long has this feature been requested? Any way I really like it and glad Garmin have included this feature. Garmin connect is beginning to look really good. I wish I could have put an existing mileage to shoes. No problem really though as going forward everything will be fine when I buy new shoes.
This was a pleasant surprise when I uploaded my workouts today.
Great feature and really needed to use GC as a full training diary. I like the ability to add gear as default (missing in SportTracks) and the implementation is a bit easier to use then Training Peaks. However the current is really limited without the ability to: A) Edit mileage B) Easily view mileage. I have faith that this will be improved in the future.
I like the ability to add gear as default (missing in SportTracks) and the implementation is a bit easier to use then Training Peaks.
I'm not sure how the CloudSync implementation works with Mobi but ST will definitely let you default gear. For instance, if I hit the trails it will auto apply my trail shoe, for a speed session, it will auto apply a racing flat, etc. I can override if I'm in a different shoe (which happens a lot for me) but it's a great feature and most of the time the default gear works for me when I'm doing a specific workout.
Sorry, should have been clearer. I only use the online version of SportTracks. I also like the pictures off the equipment, but that maybe asking too much at this point.
Why can't Garmin just get it right by adding a field with "Initial Distance" to a shoe? As if tracking gear until Garmin implemented the feature didn't exists and we have to start from scratch now.
