I would like garminconnect to register personal best from more workouts than run, bike, swim. i would like it to save personal best at distances in every sport you can choose from on the watch.
I'd just be happy if the watch didn't forget those things after either doing a factory reset or buying a new watch. At this point a cloud system that syncs your data for at min the last 30 days to a new or reset device should be a thing. That would include personal bests, but yea, beyond that, what particular sport(s) would you want with that?
As my "real" records only might get beaten once in a blue moon or now never, I actually like to set "device" records since last reset/purchase. So yesterday I got a mile "record" of 5:45 even though my actual record is 4:16 which I now have no chance of bettering (well on foot!).
I'd just be happy if the watch didn't forget those things after either doing a factory reset or buying a new watch. At this point a cloud system that syncs your data for at min the last 30 days to a new or reset device should be a thing. That would include personal bests, but yea, beyond that, what particular sport(s) would you want with that?
I actually made another post about this (and Garmin has a support page), but there are certain things you can back up from your old watch and restore to your new watch. (And certain things which cannot be transferred at all, like VO2Max, training status, fitness tracking data, etc.)
For records/personal bests, copy the contents of /GARMIN/RECORDS from your old watch to /GARMIN/NEWFILES on your new watch. (Using a USB cable.)
For records/personal bests, copy the contents of /GARMIN/RECORDS from your old watch to /GARMIN/NEWFILES on your new watch. (Using a USB cable.)
You can also send records from GC to your device.
Thanks for that. I actually had done this when I went from the fenix 5 to the 935, but the whole "watch has to learn from you" part is a bit silly. I mean Suunto does this already (which is where the idea of the last 30 days being synced to the device came from). Garmin's a huge company, and arguably the leader in this part of the market, you'd think they'd have a process to sync the last month of training and metric data to the device so you don't have to get the basics back, not to mention the new firstbeat training stuff.
Then again the fenix 5 firstbeat info was really bad. When I went on to the 935 it literally looked like I was a completely different person; and we're only talking about a week apart.
