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Requesting multi-sport (triathlon) .fit, .gpx, & .tcx sample files from Forerunner 945 user

Hi,

Apologies in advance if this is not the appropriate place in the forums. I just performed a triathlon this weekend and was forced to use my Apple Watch to record each activity (& transition) of my event. I own a Forerunner 945, but had to send it back into REI where I purchased it as there was an issue with the watch always losing connection with my phone and I am waiting on the replacement unit.

Anyways, I wanted to post and see if someone would be willing to upload/share exports of one of their multi-sport triathlons as I am wanting to manually combine my three individual apple watch files into one multi-sport activity for upload to Garmin Connect. I know this is a temporary workaround or Band-Aid (if you will) to simply try and get my logged triathlon into Garmin Connect as a normal multi-sport activity, but currently I don't like how my Apple Watch logged each activity separately.

Ideally if someone could send the .fit, .gcx, and .tcx versions of their multi-sport activity/triathlon that would be super helpful!! I'd like to try and mimic the XML structure to combine my three separate Apple Watch files into one Garmin-specific .tcx multi-sport file that I can upload to Garmin Connect.

I really appreciate it y'all! Thanks! Can't wait to get my Garmin watch replacement back so I don't have to keep uploading Apple Watch .fit files like this :(!

-Kyle

0 Damian.Holt over 5 years ago

There's an app called RunGap that can take activities from ihealth and send them to Garmin connect. Once there you could merge the files into 1 activity.

0 kaffolder7 over 5 years ago in reply to Damian.Holt

Damian.Holt I've figured out how to get the data from Health to Garmin Connect. However, the swim, bike, and run are all three separate activities. I did not see a way in Garmin Connect to merge these into 1 multi-sport activity. That's why I thought maybe I could do this manually by asking someone to share a multi-sport .tcx exported file. And then I could mimic the XML structure and upload that one file to Garmin Connect.

0 Damian.Holt over 5 years ago in reply to kaffolder7

You wouldn't merge the fit files in connect you'd need a fit file tool.

0 Damian.Holt over 5 years ago in reply to Damian.Holt

Try this site possibly?

www.fitfiletools.com/

0 kaffolder7 over 5 years ago in reply to Damian.Holt

I’ve tried that and it successfully combines all three of the activities, but I don’t want to combine them as one track. I want to be able to visualize each part of the tri in Garmin Connect the same way that Garmin treats multi-sport activities it uploads. Simply asking for a sample multi-sport file in .tcx format from someone.

0 phoglund_ over 5 years ago in reply to kaffolder7

Then you probably need to use Fit File Repair Tool. http://fitfilerepairtool.info/

0 runningfan97 over 5 years ago

Tried to export a multisport activity as TCX. Not possible. Seems this format does not support multisports.

So only exporting as FIT is enabled in GC and FIT is not really human readable without a deep look into the specification of this binary format.

My suggestion (same as phoglund): try FIT file repair tools, they have a multi sport option: http://fitfilerepairtool.info/quick-tour/multi-session-files/

Maybe the trial version is good enough for your one shot purpose.

0 kaffolder7 over 5 years ago in reply to runningfan97

Thanks phoglund_ & runningfan97 I'll give that a try! Moral of the story...don't ever use my Apple Watch as a backup.

0 phoglund_ over 5 years ago in reply to kaffolder7

Or just post your files here, new topic, and someone with ffrt will help.