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Any way to get alerted of the elapsed distance accumulated as opposed to just the frequency?

shawnmandel
over 4 years ago

I run with earbuds and I get audible alerts of my time & distance, as well as calling out my pace.  However, is there any way to get the audio alert to also call out the accumulated distance over time every 1 km, for example?  To me, it is just not useful to hear 1 km each time I run past 1k.  I would rather hear the elapsed distance I have run thus far during my run, so I don't lose track of my total distance run so far.  I know I can look down at my watch for the total distance stat, but it would be far useful to get the total running or cumulative distance after each km as a reminder.

Is that even possible?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    also so far i have not been able to get total time audio prompts on my run. for me the most basic audio prompts through my earbuds should be total time elapsed and total distance. i would like these 2 audio promts for every km i run. just as i was used to with my apple watch. strange that these basic functions are not included in a watch than can do thousands of things. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    i mean a smartwatch should have the ability to say in a female/male voice via bluetooth earbuds: TIME: 22.45  DISTANCE 4.34 Km etc. THESE ARE MEASUREMENTS THAT KEEP ME GOING ON MY RUN without having to keep on looking at my watch or feel for vibration alert where in my run i am. it makes my run much more relaxed and i can focus on the road ahead of me.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    correction: TIME: 22 minutes 45 seconds  DISTANCE 4.00 Km etc to follow the logic. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    im not an APPLE FANBOY but can we please have such a simple setup also for a GARMIN RUNNERS WATCH

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    and please i dont need replies with questions why i would need that etc. i would just like to know where in the settings i activate the above audio prompts for total time and total distance for a running session. if this cannot be done thats a different matter. either it can be done or not. not interested in middle ways, just if it can be done or not :-)

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to FANBOY

    Not sure it can be done. Shat I did is to configure alerts at 1km lap. So when it says lap 8 for example it is..the 8th km Blush

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I just don't understand why we can't get this feature.  I mean, it's great, every lap (1 mi), it tells me I completed a lap, my time, heart rate, etc, but it just says "1 mile".  So yes, I know I just ran a mile, that is what the auto-lap is set to, so that's means nothing to me.  If I go out for a 8 mile run, why can't it say the accumulated miles at every lap?   instead of saying 1 mile, say the actual accumulated miles.   My one and only complaint about garmin watches and I'm on my 4th different forerunner.    What gives??

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to scottgildner

    I know my friend and lucky you that have this complaint only Wink

    It's years that I report that one, plus the ability to get long alert/vibration for incoming calls (not only twice!) the feature to see the battery status on the app (useful when charging), larger fonts for the stock watch faces etc etc etc 

    Here www.garmin.com/.../