Has anyone used the live tracking? Or the Event Sharing?

I use live track on every run auto started and sent to my wife.  She doesn’t open it most days, but if she needed to I hope she’d find me.  I also believe she uses it once in awhile just to see how far I’ve gone, what my avg pace is that day and estimate when I’ll be home so she can get out.

i try to use event share on any race I do when I think family may be watching along the course (or even at home), when it works it’s been pretty useful for spectators on course or even my parents “watching” from home.

Event sharing is a hot mess. Every message sent by a spectator appears as a a new message and floods other spectators. They should be using a unique Garmin sender Id as someone mentioned in this forum previously. 

I wonder if the unique sender id is a regional thing?  I am in the US and every text sent for a half marathon race (~15 texts) came from +1 (855) 553-6632.  Looking back at that text thread on my iPhone I see all messages from the previous 2 or so times I used the feature last June.

I still agree that using Event Share is a bit of a mess though (but for different reasons for me). At least twice I've tried to set it up and enable it only to find it isn't actually setup as I expected.  It seems to require many settings to be set using the App, yet the App's settings don't seem to sync and take effect reliably.  On at least 1 race I thought I had it configured and enabled but it never started.  Later I realized the watch said it was not enabled even though I am certain I configured and enabled it via the app the previous evening.

My wife loves it... She can see where I am and how long until I get home.   The event sharing I won't t use.   

We send each other jokes too over the live track which is fun. 

Also nice to have a track for someone to get me if I get lost or never make it home I never run with a phone. 

That's pretty damn cool. It must be nice to know the other is home soon or to know you still got plenty of alone time to relax by yourself.

I like the jokes thing, how do you send her one? Can you use airpods to send an audio message? I don't think I'd wanna stop my rhythm typing out on the watch keyboard. 

Also do they need to have garmin connect or does it work through their SMS? I didn't know you could send messages to friends I thought the LTE was just for emergencies and for people to message you. 

The jokes are only the person not running.   The other day I got a message from "Romulus" to watch out for those imagenary cats (succession show reference).

The audio think is muddy I found but I also mumbled it.   She just live track texts.   Hopefully they will allow some more two way in live track. 

No way to send sms messages but you can send an alert email to your contacts if you really need to write back. 

Ah that's disappointing, be cool if you could message through the watch to the person watching your livetrack. 

Well at least that's useful if you're going to be home late. 

I think the casual messaging whilst on runs would wear off like a novelty because for me going out for a run is more like me time and for her it's her time. The live tracking is cool but I usually tell her how long I'll be anyways. Still cool though and useful. 

Is your wife an athlete herself? I just need someone who is actually interested in my running haha. That's pretty cool, do you enjoy the smaller size than the 935? I do. 

Most people should be able to get 30 second updates for a marathon then without running put of battery. 

She is not an athlete, she is my ironMate / Sherpa at events. I loved the 945 lte until the 4.16 update was the hot mess everyone says it is, it will just take time to get fixed so no biggie.

Yeah, IM events don't have mats / updates often enough during the 70.3 mile or 140.6 mile race and are usually incomplete or slow to update  Plus knowing where I am in a swim and when I get out is comforting and seeing I am still moving on the bike assures her I haven't crashed.