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Race against an activity

Hi,

Is it possible to race against a previously recorded activity and know at exact points, how much time I am ahead or behind?

It seems that you can only know on the overall time and distance.

Thank you.

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aweatherall over 4 years ago +1 verified

You can, but it involves turning that activity into a course. This can be done on the unit or in Garmin Connect.

If you then add the following data fields to a training page, Time ahead, Distance Ahead…

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0 KentuckyFriedKiwi over 4 years ago in reply to aweatherall

Interesting. I tried this and it didn’t work. Just to be sure I did it right, this is what I did:

Selected a course (which is a manually plotted Strava route) and selected ride from the pre-ride summary screen then pressed play/timer button to record. Hit play to finish and saved ride.
Went to race an activity and selected this recently recorded ride from history. Selected ride on the pre-ride summary screen and then pressed play.

The map seemed to work, albeit a bit jumpy without the usual resolution in movement. The elevation profile looked good but the grade stayed at 0. Will upload the files.

0 KentuckyFriedKiwi over 4 years ago in reply to aweatherall

6188118645.zip 6188131498.zip

6188118645 is the first ride from the Strava course

6188131498 is the second ride, trying to race the first file

0 aweatherall over 4 years ago in reply to KentuckyFriedKiwi

I will take a look. I did not actually try using the created activity, but just checked that it had elevation and position data.

0 KentuckyFriedKiwi over 4 years ago in reply to aweatherall

Just wondering if you ever checked it as it doesn’t work for me. Thanks.

0 aweatherall over 4 years ago in reply to KentuckyFriedKiwi

Not yet I was waiting for the next storm to come in.