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Use navigation during running activity.

I have been trying to use navigation for my runs for quite a while, but I can't seem to figure out how to start it properly, so I would appreciate if anyone could help.

This is my problem: I preload on the watch a course I created on Garmin Connect. No issues.

I go out, press run, long press "up button", navigation (my watch is in Italian, so my words in English might not be exact), course, I select the course I want, follow course.

The course loads, I wait for satellite lock, then start my running activity, and the watch takes minutes to calculate the route. This wouldn't be too much annoying if I was able to stop / pause my run and wait for the watch to make these evidently extremely complicated calculations. . But no, the dumb very expensive piece of plastic stops calculating the course if I pause my run!

Is there a proper way to do it, or the only way is to run in circles until the stupid thing takes its time to figure out where I need to go?

Thanks for the much appreciated help!

0 bluefish 5 months ago

Narziss said:
the watch takes minutes to calculate the route.

It looks as if your watch is set to “use map”. Use map does not use your course, but calculates a course itself based on the map data.

Narziss said:
: I preload on the watch a course I created on Garmin Connect.

If you want to follow this course, you must use the “follow course” option in the settings.

0 Narziss 5 months ago in reply to bluefish

Yes you are right, thanks. However, if I "use map" and, for any reason, go off the predetermined course, it won't change the route to bring me back to the course, based on my experience.