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Changing ride profile mid-ride and lost the first part?

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over 3 years ago

I accidentally started my outside ride earlier today in Indoor mode. About 3 hrs into it, it dawned on me as I was not seeing the elevation gains so i stopped and changed my profile to Road.

After I was done, I saved the ride as I always do and noticed it only saved the 2nd part of the ride after the ride profile change. I've also connected my Edge 830 Garmin to my PC and was not able to find the first part. Two questions: 1) Did I lose the first part of my ride? 2) Is there a correct process to switching the profile mid-ride? If so, did I lose the first part of the ride because I did not follow the process correctly?

Thanks everyone. It was a bit frustrating as this was a big training day and I was disappointed that I lost most of the ride stats today.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The indoor profile means GPS is switched off so you wouldn't get any GPS for the first part but you should have got data from any paired sensors.  I often switch between different outdoor profiles during a ride (sometimes by mistake!) and I've not noticed any issues apart from 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The indoor profile means GPS is switched off so you wouldn't get any GPS for the first part but you should have got data from any paired sensors.  I often switch between different outdoor profiles during a ride (sometimes by mistake!) and I've not noticed any issues apart from a live segment stopping but that's no big deal.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to swdesouza

    I've had previous instances where I started and completed a ride in a wrong profile and realized after I've saved ride and was able to go back into Strava to update the ride. This was a bit different where I've made the change mid-ride. Good to know that it should have worked so I'll do a test dry-run and see if i can reproduce.


  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to HughTrinh

    Update what in Strava? I don't think it does anything with the profile. The only time I've seen Strava correct anything is when a friend had their profile set to one with auto-pause disabled for most of the ride. Strava must run a separate algorithm to figure out where you stopped and use that to find "moving time" instead of whatever is reported by the garmin (or FIT file whatever). I had previously noticed that the moving times in GC and Strava don't match, and this is why.

    Otherwise, I don't think Strava pulls anything from the FIT file except the sensor, position, elevation, and lap data.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to swdesouza

    This happened to me as well. Accidentally changed the profile mid-ride and I lost my HR training zone record.
    Is there any way to prevent mid-ride profile change?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Jonathan

    No, it's kind of a core feature. What if you're ten minutes into the ride and realize you've got the wrong profile? At best it could ask for a confirmation, I guess.

    Losing the training zone record sounds more like a bug.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to wes-m

    True, seems something is not right here.
    What happened to me was I recorded 3 hours in an outdoor profile. Then suddenly I switched to indoor profile.
    When I realized, I changed it back to the outdoor profile.
    Then after I got home and finish the ride, I realized my HR Zone Time for the first 3 hours gone.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Jonathan

    Sounds like something is disabled in the indoor profile so switching to it just flushes all the HR Zone Time, then switching back starts it up again. Maybe not desirable the perfect behavior but understandable.