Does anyone else use Fetch without a Garmin?

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Broadsword Mar 2016 10:29am, 9 Mar 2016 19 posts	0 Broadsword Does anyone else use Fetch WITHOUT a Garmin? If so, what do you use to record your activities?
Velociraptor Mar 2016 10:32am, 9 Mar 2016 33,553 posts	0 Velociraptor I use a Garmin, but I don't connect it to Fetch and upload columns of numbers, I just fill in the boxes that I want to fill in by hand and write a bit of free text about the activity.
SODIron © 2002 Mar 2016 10:39am, 9 Mar 2016 11,087 posts	0 SODIron © 2002 I tend to do a bit of both...sometimes I'll load up from my Garmin, sometimes I'll wear a standard watch (or no watch at all) and manually add the info.
sallykate Mar 2016 10:44am, 9 Mar 2016 4,296 posts	0 sallykate I had a year or two where I couldn't upload from my Garmin to my PC. I started using ~~strava~~ on my phone instead and adding manually to Fetch. Now I upload automatically to Garmin Connect and it then goes to Fetch and Strava.
DeeGee Mar 2016 10:59am, 9 Mar 2016 17,043 posts	0 DeeGee I have a Suunto Ambit. It requires a bit of clickery to import, but import it does. Rather like how it used to be when I first started using Fetch with a Garmin before things happened automagically.
Weean Mar 2016 11:00am, 9 Mar 2016 992 posts	0 Weean Heh heh, you are not alone! I use an app (Runkeeper) on my phone, and upload that by hand generally, but I've got a regular lunchtime route at work which I've stored, & I'll just use an old-fashioned stopwatch then.
Carpathius Mar 2016 12:47pm, 9 Mar 2016 8,991 posts	0 Carpathius I used to. I used the mapping tool to work out distance and an ordinary watch for the time.
Diogenes Mar 2016 12:48pm, 9 Mar 2016 13,223 posts	0 Diogenes I used to be like Carp for most of my Fetch career but now I have a Suunto Ambit
Nightjar Mar 2016 12:49pm, 9 Mar 2016 4,176 posts	0 Nightjar Quite a lot of our club runners don't use a garmin (or other clever device). I didn't think it was possible to run without one!
Surrey Phil Mar 2016 1:12pm, 9 Mar 2016 1,310 posts	0 Surrey Phil Before I got mine, I plotted my route and distance via the Good Run Guide web site. before that, I can even recall the days of running with a pedometer on my hip.