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Any way to manually edit the LOAD on an activity?

So this morning I go for a ride and my Forerunner 945 freezes up on me.
It freezed at about 2h15 at which point my LOAD data field already showed about 265.
Pressing start/stop or any other button did nothing at all.

After holding the power button in for a while the device resets and I was able to tell it to "resume" the activity.
Interestingly it still seemed to track my time and distance while it was frozen, so afterward that shows up correctly:

But after the restart my LOAD started from scratch and now shows up as only 149:

So my "coach" (as I like to think of it) thinks I'm slacking off, but actually I should be within target for my 7 day training load:

When I try to edit my ride, I only see the following options:

Does anybody know of a way to manually edit the LOAD on an activity?

Also: is there a way to prevent my 945 from freezing up on me in future?

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Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to wgb27 +1
wgb27

are you ready for one more ?
- remove all activity on Garmin Connect Web from yesterday
- disconnect your watch from all Garmin programs
  - turn off Garmin Express
  - turn off Garmin Connect Mobile (bluetooth…

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0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to wgb27

wgb27

the one from today has the additional dataset that your stubborn file is missing

so what does it do this dataset ? let's reverse engineer ahum..try...

happy & safe sporting

0 MDus24 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Tell me when I’m wrong. But when save an activity with a load of say 10, my 7-day load will rise 10. After deleting that activity my 7-day load stays at 10 and never recalculates (again).

What I’m saying is, I have a 7-day load of x with 0 activities in the last 7 days. Is it just me?

Why are we so sure editing the fit file will do the trick?

(just asking, really appreciate the work OnlyTwo and others put in)

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to MDus24

MDus24

no offence taken

thx for the info and to chime in

MDus24 said:
Why are we so sure editing the fit file will do the trick?

not sure at all, just trying if it works with changing the value

and I think that file had something missing because of the crash

MDus24 said:
Tell me when I’m wrong. But when save an activity with a load of say 10, my 7-day load will rise 10.

what I think I know is that the oldest load value get's subtracted and the latest one added with the latest upload

but what do I know, I have not enough data on Garmin's platform

MDus24 said:
After deleting that activity my 7-day load stays at 10 and never recalculates (again).

strange not ? it should drop ? or Garmin blocks it in the background

So, it could work (again guessing) when we change the activity as a second one for that day

too much unknowns sadly ...

happy & safe sporting

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to wgb27

wgb27

are you in for another try ?

check the todays ride with 500 load

just check if it works and if our helpful MDus24 was on track

wgb27-fr945-load-comparison-4342569446_F5B2F301-499.zip

this one from today with 500 load and timeshifted a few minutes later with help of FitFileRepairTool

wgb27-fr945-load-comparison-4342569446_F5B2F301-499-fixed-timeshifted.zip

and this on from yesterday with load 500 and timeshifted a few minutes later with help of FitFileRepairTool

wgb27-fr945-trainingload-149-500-4338325315_F2B2F301-499-dataset8mod-fixed-timeshifted.zip

and the result is

happy & safe sporting

0 wgb27 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

I wasn't sure if I was only supposed to try one of those files, so I sommer uploaded all of them, as reflected in my numerous activities:

My "coach" still thinks I'm slacking off though:

Then I also tried deleting "duplicates", but still no luck.

Bless you guys for keeping up the effort though.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to wgb27

wgb27

are you ready for one more ?

remove all activity on Garmin Connect Web from yesterday
disconnect your watch from all Garmin programs
- turn off Garmin Express
- turn off Garmin Connect Mobile (bluetooth)
connect your watch to your computer
- backup the content of your ACTIVITY folder
- in the ACTIVITY folder remove the fit file from yesterday's ride
- and put this one "wgb27-fr945-load-comparison-4342569446_F5B2F301-499-fixed-timeshifted.fit" in your NEWFILES folder

disconnect your watch from your computer
restart your watch by press and hold the light button until your screen goes black
turn on Garmin Connect Mobile and Garmin Express

my idea's are running out

happy & safe sporting