Feature request - Restart/continue saved activity

I would really appreciate being able to continue in an activity that was already saved. It is far too easy to save the ongoing activity when attempting to pause or restart it.

Thank you

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C.sco over 3 years ago +4

I agree, or at the very least, it would be great if Connect had the ability to merge activities later.

Currently you have to use a 3rd-party website to merge activities, and it's very clunky and buggy…
steppinrazr over 3 years ago in reply to C.sco +1

that would be very handy!
sfainbraun over 3 years ago +1

Ive been wanting this feature since my Forerunner 935/Edge 520. You should be able to go into history and then hit continue and it should treat the time in-between no different that when you pause on a…

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0 DanielM over 2 years ago in reply to Maximilian

How did you do that - when I was in the self evaluation the back button did not work anymore. I was always stuck in self evaluation.

0 Maximilian over 2 years ago in reply to DanielM

Maybe it is not working for all activities? While biking, I never had issues with returning to the activity screen.

0 drkglb over 2 years ago

I agree, that would be a cool feature. I guess what stops Garmin from implementing it is that there are a number of algorithms for metrics which run at the time the activity is saved, and make it complicated to re-start...

0 Vizi over 2 years ago in reply to drkglb

That makes sense, and it might be a reason why this feature was not introduced.

0 C.sco over 2 years ago in reply to 5811112

5811112 said:
The online utilities to merge fit files work well. But it would be nice to have a solution inside garmin

They work, but I wouldn't say they work well. It's a huge pain to do, you have to download the fit files for two activities, perform the merge, then upload the new file, and erase the two old ones. After it's done, some of the data will be kind of wonky, or just missing.

I mean, it's better than nothing and I'm glad someone went through the work to make the tool available for us, but really Garmin just needs to add this functionality natively in Connect.

0 5811112 over 2 years ago in reply to C.sco

100% agree. I meant that the online utilities can merge fit files without any problem.

I would add that if you upload a merged file into connect, that activity is not taked into account to measure the training load, so the recovery metrics are affected by this.