Garmin

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Rosehip Jul 2023 7:26pm, 2 Jul 2023 29,282 posts	Rosehip Had you put the event into the calendar?
Oranj Jul 2023 7:40pm, 2 Jul 2023 3,692 posts	Oranj That sounds plausible - if you add a Connect calendar event from the library of events often someone will have saved the route, which I guess then becomes a trackable thing.
flanker Jul 2023 7:43pm, 2 Jul 2023 20,972 posts	flanker No, don't use the calendar. But it is almost if it's tracking location, seeing what's in the calendar for that day, and then populating the watch. Which would be both a bit dodgy privacy-wise but also rather clever and useful.
alpenrose Jul 2023 7:44pm, 2 Jul 2023 60,074 posts	alpenrose Magic!
Rosehip Jul 2023 7:51pm, 2 Jul 2023 29,283 posts	Rosehip Unless you were doing a no GPS allowed race
Badger Jul 2023 8:14pm, 2 Jul 2023 16,368 posts	Badger There's a mode for that, adventure race logs the activity but shows no GPS data or route until you save it. Used it once on a nav course I wanted to log. But yes that is weird, flanker; when I've put races in the calendar it has picked up any route that is in the Garmin database for it, but otherwise never seen anything like that.
Snoot Jul 2023 8:40pm, 2 Jul 2023 6,626 posts	Snoot I have noticed recently that if I create a plan in Outdooractive it syncs to Connect and my watch automatically where I used to have to send it to the watch. Not seen one pop up during a run though?
flanker Jul 2023 8:56pm, 2 Jul 2023 20,973 posts	flanker Thinking about it, I did, very unusually for me, add it to my race profile on Fetch. Can't see the synch being 2-way, but it's the only way I can think of that Garmin would know I was doing it. Badger Do you know how Garmin matches your manual entry in the calendar to the equivalent route it has in its database? It seems it would need to be a very fuzzy match.
Badger Jul 2023 9:16pm, 2 Jul 2023 16,369 posts	Badger I think it's a Fenix 7 generation thing, but if you go into Training & Planning > My events > Add an event on the phone app and find an existing version of the race, it will bring the route along with it. If you don't find the race there, you can create it yourself and you can add a route file if you have one.
Rosehip Jul 2023 10:05pm, 2 Jul 2023 29,284 posts	Rosehip Which has the potential for disaster if someone has put an old or incorrect route on