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Mar 2008
10:01am, 5 Mar 2008
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Hendo
Battery farm.
Mar 2008
10:16am, 5 Mar 2008
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Badger
Naaaaaa, that's only if he's buying wholesale.

Try Boots, they have a huge range of random little batteries for cameras, hearing aids, watches and what have you - always been able to find everything I needed there. Or a jewellers maybe.
Mar 2008
10:46am, 5 Mar 2008
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flanker
or a lot of supermarkets and corner shops stock them too.

they are the common CR2320 iirc
Mar 2008
1:42pm, 5 Mar 2008
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clairster
thanks guys :) it will eb the TC too, I will pass on your advice
Mar 2008
8:01pm, 22 Mar 2008
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Hendo
Help

Tried the courses/routes thing today for the first time. Exported a route from Fetch, imported to GTC, loaded to the Unit. Got dressed, went outside, found route under "training" (expected it under navigation?), selected "do route", and it duly told me how far to start. Nice, I thought, here we go.

Pressed start, started running. I canceled it after a mile or so because it said i had 0ft distance to course, and 0ft distance to end! And why the virtual partner? It just didn't seem to be telling me anything.

What was I doing wrong? It was a circular course, would this make any difference?

Any advice at all welcomed...
Mar 2008
8:08pm, 22 Mar 2008
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flanker
I've seen that before and worked out what was happening. But I'm struggling to remember what it was!

It is something to do with it being a circular route, and iirc correctly it is something to do with a route having no sense of continuity or direction, and not being able to tell start from end. The one that caused me a problem was a figure of 8 route, and it just tried to take me the shortest way back (i.e. just one half of the 8). Why it says 0 ft though I'm not sure.

There is a way around this. I might have a play later and post an update.
Mar 2008
8:10pm, 22 Mar 2008
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Hendo
Cheers Flanker, was rather hoping you'd be around! Am going to try a shorter one tomorrow and set the start and end a bit further apart. Hoping to get it right cos Benni and I are getting trailed up on monday on paths unknown....
Mar 2008
8:12pm, 22 Mar 2008
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Flanker, can you update teh article with teh info too pleas? I have no idea when it comes to routes etc. and I wanna learn how to use them. :-)
Mar 2008
8:13pm, 22 Mar 2008
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Hendo
I guess we should call them courses as that's what Garmin calls them.

I have no idea what routes are, and couldn't work that out either! I even got the manual out :o
Mar 2008
8:18pm, 22 Mar 2008
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flanker
there are course and routes (or two types anyway whatever they are called). One works differently (better?) than the other, and one is under workouts and one under navigation iirc. Need to have a play and remind myself which is which, how they work, and when to use each type...

Ian, of course... :-)

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