Please add support for more than one active activity Garmin!

A little more visual representation of what I mean:

I press Activity: Bike and it starts. I then bike to the gym and then press Resume later.

If I then press the start button I can only select to resume to bike activity.

I would like the watch to display:

- 1 activity paused (biking)

- Choose a new activity and then the other activity is hibernated until I bring it up again

After the gym activity, maybe I want to have a swim so I press Resume later on the gym activity.

Now I would like the watch to display:

- 2 activities paused (biking, gym)

- Choose a new activity

And after the swim I can then Save than activity and go back to the gym and resume that. 

After the gym I can Save that activity and then bike home.

Voila I have done 3 different activities and didn't have to make 5.

With current software I would have had to make 2 bike activities + 2 gym activities and 1 swim activity. = 5. 

This is of course not representative of what I want to do, just an example. But I have several times where I wish I could store at least 2 simultaneous activities. 

KrapfenKringel said:

There is http://www.fitfiletools.com with that you could manually combine the 2 bike rides, delete the originals and re-upload. It's a bit of manual work.

I'd like to see Garmin add a merge activities function to Connect, so we don't have to keep using this clunky 3rd-party method to merge activities.

Merging activities is a very common thing people need to do, especially those of us who record multiday activities split into one recording per day. It's surprising they still make us use 3rd party software to accomplish this relatively simple task.

Yes it would be great if Garmin would improve their edit options, just for deleting false readings that might mess up your top speed statistics in the middle of a track. At least they got the trim feature for the beginning and end since a few month.

Really buggy one though, as when I zoom in to the map to see the point where I forgot to turn it of it zooms out again as soon as I move the slider, so its really hard to hit the perfect spot.

I totally support this - there are so many instances where I missed such a feature! For instance biking to a nice lake for 2 hours, going for a swim there, and then biking back. Why is it not possible to "squeeze in" the swimming activity? Seems easy enough to implement, would love to see that feature.

I continue to read this thread with interested only because it remains unclear the motive beyond not having too many activities. Honestly, I don't think it makes any difference how many activities you have nor does it really matter if the activities are split.

Quite the contrary, the data produced in "resuming" these activities would then be suspect. For example. I am fresh and I ride to the lake, take a swim, and then ride home fatigued. My bike activity now averages out these two states (fresh and fatigued) rather then a "fresh" activity and a "fatigued" activity. Workout load would be inaccurate etc because of this combining.

My advice though would be to use the multi-sport or dual-sport activity as it will give you an overarching view for the multiple activities and the individual view.

You have a valid point there and that is something that needs to be worked out if they allow more than one activity. Maybe they could add some kind of split into the ONE activity. So when its saved, its still saved as one activity, but with a clear split when you had a break/other activity and that would be labeled as split 1, split 2, etc. Maybe they could take the activity in between the split into consideration when calculating the workout load etc. I understand this will be a bit complex, but hey, its possible isn't it?

Wait, are you still a @FenixUser? I thought you returned yours because it scratched.

Seriously, though, as others have pointed out, you are really talking about multiple activities. It doesn’t matter to anyone or any training platform whether your bike ride is one 20 mile activity or 2 10 mile activities (for example).

And you need to ask whether you’ll ever actually look back at any of these activities and wish they were combined. It’s all just numbers in the wind. 

I understand very well the topic and I would like to have the same possibility with my Fenix 7 Watch.

See this following use-case:

Yesterday I went for a long SUP trip. In the middle of my trip in decide to have a 1km swim and back to the SUP to go back at the starting point.

For sure, If i knew that I will do that I could create a Multisport activity (SUP/OWS), but you can not every time plan in advance what you will do.

So it would be great to pause an activity, start and finish a new one and the pick again the initial activity an finish this one.   

What's the problem to stop SUP, record swimming, then start a new SUP?

As stated in the previous post, are you really looking back in all those activities, analysing them...?

Looks like that some people became obsessed of recording everything what they do instead of just enjoying in the activity ;)