Hi there,
I have to ask Community for a favor. Or maybe workout proper procedure to fix bugs which exists since introduction.
Usually when I travel to new places I just create new Course on GCM by defining distance and starting direction. This works as expected. New course is created, synced to watch and I can start my workout. Except I made mistake yesterday and without looking at map I have started running in opposite direction that I should. I have realized that after maybe 500m and decided not to make U-turn but follow Course in Reverse direction. I was notified few times at turning points what I should do, but of course in opposite way. After about 2kms I have remembered that we have such option in Navigation Menu. I have Paused workout, selected that option and hoped for notification at every turn. As you might already realized this is not happend.
It was mentioned many times over last 4 years (I guess since introduction) this feature do not work as expected.
It was even replied 2 weeks ago by Garmin-Sierra in this post 19.18 Bug - No voice directions when course is done in reverse - that is is not a bug it is feature.
The watch does not have this ability. I apologize for any disappointment!
And now (as mentioned also several times) we can complain here - hoping that someone from Garmin will read this, realize it is important for Community and fix / implement it, or go and post it as Idea here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/
But we all are lazy, hence please use below template or slightly modify to report this. Maybe this is right way to Wake-up Garmin and start listening us.
Thank you community.
I appreciate if you Like this post to mark you would follow my kind request.
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Improve Course Navigation in Reverse
When creating Course and upload it to watch we have a very useful feature to hear voice guidance (on compatible watches) at turn point. I understand that watch might not have enough resources to calculate modified Course, but turning directions are saved somehow with it. Navigate in Reverse should do nothing more than swap Left with Right.
All left turns (even sharp ones) will become in reverse mode as right turns.
Several posts on Forum describe this in detail.
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/305744/do-course-in-reverse---does-not-provide-turn-by-turn-navigation
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/299057/course-navigation-missing-turn-by-turn-navigation
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-965/370623/no-turn-by-turn-directions-when-do-course-in-reverse
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/305936/up-ahead-does-not-work-on-reversed-course
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945-lte/332277/bug-sw-14-52-no-turn-signals-turn-indications-when-navigating-a-course-in-opposite-direction-backwards-direction
/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/226507/very-few-way-points-when-do-ing-course-in-reverse/1076145#1076145
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