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Associating a Personal Record with an Activity

NeilJonesOnline
over 10 years ago
I've only been using GC for a few weeks now, and despite the fact that I imported several thousand kms of runs from my old Nike+ account, I noticed that GC still showed blanks for my PRs. However, with a few GC runs under my belt, it's since populated the 5K and longest distance PRs using only the new GC data. I went out today to run a full-on 1K to use as a start-of-the-year benchmark, and ended up running 1.05K just to be on the safe side.

However, when I uploaded the run to GC, I didn't get the "New Personal Record" notification I was expecting, and it was still showing my fastest 1K time as blank. I went to put the time in manually, and noticed that there's an option to "Browse Activities", presumably to associate the PR with the activity rather than just enter the limited data manually. However, when I click on that, rather than being presented with a list of all my runs, all I get is a screen with just one run on from several years ago, on which I happened to run exactly 1K (in a slower time than today though). I can't find any way of getting today's run to show so I can use it for my PR.

Surely Garmin must realise that a distance PR isn't necessarily going to be set on a run covering only that distance? I think my fastest 5K was actually on a 10K run. Even if it does work this way, then surely it should still identify 1.05km as being a 1km run? Does this mean if I ever run a marathon, if I run 10m beyond the finish line before stopping the activity then GC won't let me associate it with a PR?

So, for my 1K run, is there any way I can associate it with today's activity, or am I just stuck with entering the time manually?

Thanks,

Neil
  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to bombsimon

    I am sorry, I can't offer you a better solution. Unless you want to wait till it gets fixed (potentially severeral years), you better fix it yourself with the available means. If you want to increase the chance that the problem is noticed by Garmin, report it to the Support, but most likely they will just send you here, where it will stay unnoticed by the developers anyway.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    6 years after the original post, I still run into a very similar problem today and figured I could share some thoughts and a slightly different workaround.

    Firstly, it is also my experience that if your run is just slightly longer than the standard distance, say, 1.05k as the OP mentions, Garmin will just give activity time and you will be better off trimming the 0.05 using the trim feature from connect. If your run was substantially different from the standard distance, say you ran 2k, then Garmin is quite good at picking the best 1k within that run and assign the correct record.

    If for some other reason you need to assign a record manually, for example, if you clicked "reject" by mistake or if you have an activity with faulty GPS data that you accepted by mistake and now you want to revert to the previous PB, then you can follow the steps below. 

    1) Manually assign the run where the PB really happened (possibly over a longer distance) as a PB. Garmin will show the duration of the whole activity as PB and you will be disappointed,

    2) Download the run where the PB happened to your computer,

    3) Delete the run where the PB happened from Garmin connect. This will clear the PB for that distance.

    4) Upload the activity from your computer back to garmin. This forces a recheck

    5) Go to your PBs in connect and now accept the new found correct record.