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Very few way-points when Do(ing) course in Reverse

I imported a tcx file (from ridewithgps) into GC and then sent it to my FR945. It's a 120km bike course.

The track looked good on GC and even on the watch it seems to be fine and detailed when zooming in before selecting "Do Course".

However: I wanted to do it in reverse. After selecting the appropriate option on the watch, the course suddenly is very coarse and it only consists of a way-points every few hundred meters with straight connections in between. This makes it hard to follow twisty roads or tricky intersections, not to mention the permanent on/off course notifications.

Is this a known issue/expected behavior?
I would have hoped that the reversed course is as accurate (and actually following even tight bends in the road) as the original.

0 Cozza over 5 years ago

Hey, I have exactly the same question and problem when doing a course in reverse.

0 Cozza over 5 years ago

Hey, I have exactly the same question and problem when doing a course in reverse.

0 TomaszD over 5 years ago

I guess this is just how it works when inversed on the watch, it was working like that for me as well.

Maybe inversing the course in GCM would work better.

0 Cozza over 5 years ago in reply to TomaszD

OK thanks for the input, yeah I've have just been playing around with reversing the course in GC. Will test it tomorrow.

0 flogazo over 5 years ago in reply to TomaszD

TomaszD said:
this is just how it works

I would still say that's a bug.
What you suggested is a workaround (assuming one has GCM available and is willing do have two version of every route on the watch), but the feature to reverse on the watch directly is still broken imho.

0 Cozza over 5 years ago in reply to flogazo

Yeah I imagine so, it doesn't make sense that is for sure. And is a pain to have to duplicate and then reverse all the route you need it for.

0 7431057 over 4 years ago

End of May 2021 and this is still an issue. I just did a 20 mile run on a course that worked perfectly when I run it the way round that I designed it in, selecting Do Course in Reverse at the start of my run, I set off and almost immediately it said "off course"... Good job I'd already done it forwards so kind of knew where I was going.

Is this going to be fixed, or....?

•Forerunner 945

•Route made in Strava and linked/imported to Garmin Connect