Activity type - Inline skating

Hello everyone,
I'm new in the Garmin world. So far I love the Garmin Fenix 5. Mostly I use running (indoor, outdoor) activities. Now, I would like to add a new one - Inline skating. Well as I could not find such Activity within the options, I was about to create one. Unfortunatelly I can not find place to change the icon of the activity. Are there any tricks which you use to add your own Activity types which are not present or within the market?

Thank you,
tampiss
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    0 Former Member over 8 years ago
    Hello everyone,
    I'm new in the Garmin world. So far I love the Garmin Fenix 5. Mostly I use running (indoor, outdoor) activities. Now, I would like to add a new one - Inline skating. Well as I could not find such Activity within the options, I was about to create one. Unfortunatelly I can not find place to change the icon of the activity. Are there any tricks which you use to add your own Activity types which are not present or within the market?

    Thank you,
    tampiss


    I agree that Inline Skating would be nice to have as a builtin. Apparently they felt they had to draw the line somewhere when it comes to what to include and what not to include, but I feel like Inline Skating is just as mainstream as Stand-up Paddleboarding (for one example). If I was designing this thing, I would have included every activity that they allow as an activity type in Garmin Connect. If you do need it, it's there. If you don't need it, it's not an inconvenience as it would only ever be in the "Add" menu.

    I think aside from the trouble of actually having to create the activity (which isn't that bad since you only have to do it once), and the icon issue you mentioned, the big problem is that now you'll have to manually go into Garmin Connect after every activity and change the classification from "Other" to "Inline Skating." If this is something you do a couple times a week, that's going to get old real fast.
  • Same here, new to the 5s and didn't think about to check for such a common activity before buying. :(
  • I created an app to support Inline Skating, you can find it here.