Roadbook on Fenix 7 Pro

Hi,

this summer, I doing the CCC (UTMB) and I woman behind me had all roadbook (cutoff and base camp) on her watch (Fenix 7s). It's an native option ? Or it's a data field iQ ?

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Tosk_F over 1 year ago in reply to silentvoyager +1

You can rename a course point to a certain time.

e.g. instead of naming a course point => “food station” you name that course point => “2:15” or “2:15FS.”

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0 dandrejka over 1 year ago

Hello, it is difficult to imagine what you mean by roadbook.

But if you mean a map of the path drawn in advance (when you start the activity), with all the pointers, warnings, POI, critical points, then yes, it is standard.

On https://connect.garmin.com/ or phone app, you go under TRAINING & PLANNING -> Courses (direct link https://connect.garmin.com/modern/courses), there you manually create the course or import a GPX, then send to device.

Sync the watch.

And then before you start an activity you go under options -> NAVIGATE -> Courses.... then you will have an extra screen on the activity with the map, and also vibration warnings in advance when there is a POI up ahead or you go off track...

0 GuillaumeKulakowski over 1 year ago in reply to dandrejka

Nice ! And I have information about distance to the next POI (checkpoint) ? Elevation to the next checkpoint ? Maximum time to going (cut off) ?

0 dandrejka over 1 year ago

Jeah, as Joel said... the point is to create your course points that you are interested in, then you have with latest firmware the option to split screen addition info on the map screen or put info circular around at the edge, and put there info you need, everything is there also NEXT WAYPOINT, NEXT FORK, and so on... also you will get an additional screen of altitude profile, easy to see where you are and what is expected :)

0 silentvoyager over 1 year ago

Do you mean Up Ahead feature?

support.garmin.com/.../

Although Up Ahead can't display cutoff times, only distances. It would be great though if we could associate a time goal with every course point on the Up Ahead screen.

0 Tosk_F over 1 year ago in reply to silentvoyager

You can rename a course point to a certain time.

e.g. instead of naming a course point => “food station” you name that course point => “2:15” or “2:15FS.”

The Up Ahead should reflect the name of the course point, “2:15.”

0 silentvoyager over 1 year ago in reply to Tosk_F

This is a nice workaround! Unfortunately course point names are limited to 15 characters. Having the goal time in front takes 5-6 characters out of the limit but that is better than nothing.

0 HESHER over 1 year ago

I use the watch to write down aid stations with expected time and cut off.
my waypoints look like this:

4. 13:00(15:00)

4 is the aid station index

13:00 is when I expect to be there based on the plan

15:00 is the cutoff

Make sure you do not add directions as it will skew your next poi