Last Sunday I rode a Grandfondo that I did before, I wanted to use the feature “race an activity” for 2 reasons:
- It would enable Climbpro
- It would give me live the amount of “time ahead” (or behind)
The original activity was just below 7 hours, recorded with 1 minute intervals, over 25.000 records.
When loading this original activity in the 1040, I did get a route calculation error.
Examining the original file, I noticed that because of a long tunnel, there were a couple of records with Lat/Lon values of zero.
Having no official Garmin tool to adjust that, I loaded the file into Golden Cheetah, copied the Lat/Lon values to Excel, filled in the zeros as if it was a straight line (in fact it was) end copied the values back into Golden Cheetah.
Also corrected one elevation error manually.
Saved the file to GPX because I have bad experiences with FIT files created by Golden Cheetah.
Then I loaded the result into BaseCamp and indeed the elevation graph was smooth and no more virtual trips to the south pole anymore.
Ok, next step was to reduce the number of datapoints/records by using the ‘filter’ button.
So, I reduced using the setting ‘maximum records’ set to 1.000, resulting in 814 records.
I copied the track to the 1040, restarted the 1040 and there it was in the ‘courses’ list.
I selected “race an activity” and selected the course. Got the usual question “navigate to the start” and pressed the “X” of don’t.
When the race started I hit the start button and the device restarted (?)
But after the restart I pressed start again and everything looked good.
The "time ahead" shown was accurate.
About an hour and 15 minutes into the ride something popped up (could not read the message without glasses, too small).
I got 2 options:
- Pause navigation (in grey, left side)
- In red, could not read the other option, looked like a recalculate
Did not know what to do and tried to pause, but the screen was unresponsive. However, it kept recording, I saw the time ticking.
Then, after some 20 seconds the unit restarted, only to get stuck again. I was too late with trying something, screen was unresponsive.
Manually restarted (long press power button), then directly after startup selected the widgets and pressed “stop course”.
(in the mean time trying to hold my power target ;-))
Normal operation after that, but no more course, so no Climbpro.
What is the normal way to race a previous (long!) activity ?
Do I have to select fewer records than 800 ?
Anyone here with experience?
