I've only used my Edge to track metrics like heart rate, cadence, distance, etc. but am now riding further afield of my own house and want to start using other routes which folks have loaded onto the Bikemaps website (I found more good routes on Bikemaps than Strava which is why I use that service). I found a route on Bikemaps I wanted to try and downloaded the GPX file. I then connected ny Edge via USB to my desktop iMac and loaded the GPX file into the Garmin Course folder, but when I disconnected the Edge from the iMac and went to the Course Folder it didn't display the recently downloaded route. Did I do something worng?
I later used an online converter and converted the GPX file to a FIT file and put it into the Course folder and the Edge then found it. Do I have to do this every time, i.e. convert the GPX file to a FIT file for the Edge to find and use it? Or should I be putting the file into a different folder or do something else?