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Do I need to take off my forerunner during cycling with an edge device?

Devices are 1030 edge, and 245 forerunner.

When I do a cycling workout paired to my garmin edge device, do I need to remove my forerunner watch? My cycling workout on the edge device records power data and hr so it's more accurate to just the watch recording hr without support for power.

How does garmin handle this situation if I continue wearing the watch during the workout? Will it result in any conflicting/duplicate data or mess anything up?

The forerunner doesn't record power and doesn't get suggested workouts and Training load focus, Primary benefit (Training Effect labels). Whereas the edge does get this feature.

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Dan.Boilermaker over 4 years ago +1

If you are not recording (and saving) the activity with the 245 there would not be any duplication of data and would not need to take off the watch.

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0 Dan.Boilermaker over 4 years ago

If you are not recording (and saving) the activity with the 245 there would not be any duplication of data and would not need to take off the watch.

0 marksy321 over 4 years ago

I believe you can ‘broadcast’ your HR from the watch to be picked up as part of the activity on the edge.

0 gjoregj over 4 years ago

There is this Move IQ feature that detects activities without even starting a specific one:

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner245/EN-US/GUID-EB590DE3-6519-42AD-8F73-007950FFEBD8.html

And there is this TrueUp feature:

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner245/EN-US/GUID-2D2EA72B-5952-4D5D-ACDB-CE628C3D3331.html

And regarding your question, I think that wearing your 245 on your wrist with OHR turned on (with no activity stared?), and on the other side 1030 Edge with cycling activity started and I guess you are using HRM chest strap would definitely not make conflict and it won't mess the things up either.

I think that the only thing that could affect is the stress level recorded in the period while doing the activity with the watch on or off. But it might be that Garmin sorted that as well, like ignoring the data from the watch and counting only the data from the activity since they both match in time they could easily discard the watch recordings...

On the other hand if you are starting cycling activities on both devices then you will have two activities on Garmin Connect like this:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/166083/how-can-i-avoid-double-counting-of-the-same-activity-on-forerunner-and-edge-1030-when-cycling