Plus 3 Network raises funds when you ride and log

[SadieKate]

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're saying. Are you asking to go to someone's profile and see not only their total miles/dollars for their Cause, but a breakdown of mileage per sport?

Exactly!

[Pedal Wench]

So, do I take 30 minutes to drive home before the Wednesday night ride to pick up my Garmin that I left plugged in so more of my miles count? Or, do I use those 30 minutes to bike more miles and enter them manually?

Unique Plus3 dilemma...

[HillSlugger]

So, do I take 30 minutes to drive home before the Wednesday night ride to pick up my Garmin that I left plugged in so more of my miles count? Or, do I use those 30 minutes to bike more miles and enter them manually?

Unique Plus3 dilemma...

If you upload them from the Garmin your miles are worth way more. Wait.

[NomadGal]

So, do I take 30 minutes to drive home before the Wednesday night ride to pick up my Garmin that I left plugged in so more of my miles count? Or, do I use those 30 minutes to bike more miles and enter them manually?

Unique Plus3 dilemma...

Interesting dilemma I would probably just ride the bike and promise myself to not forget my Garmin again! If I went home to get it, I might not get on the bike...

[NomadGal]

Exactly!

I'll put this on our enhancement to-do list!

[Pedal Wench]

I rode without my Garmin. Only earned $0.17. But, that's $0.17 more than if I stayed home. It was kinda cold and very windy last night, so the odds of me heading back out if I did go home to get the Garmin were looking slim...

I wonder if we could figure out a way to verify speed/distance on a trainer. I'm starting a pretty intense training program in a few weeks, and a lot of my workouts during the week will be in the basement. If I hook up my Garmin's speed/cadence to my rear wheel, can that count? Pretty please????

[HillSlugger]

Nomad, is there any way to upload a gpx file instead of uploading directly from the Garmin? On Tuesday I did an mtb ride with friends. My Garmin only got the start and the end, missing the 9 miles in between. I got a gpx file of the ride from one of the other riders but don't see a way to upload it.

Thanks, Nicole

[jobob]

To expand a bit on on slug's question, would it be possible to upload tracks from gps devices other than the Garmin Edge?

(I have a Garmin ETrex Vista HCx, from which I can save tracks in .gpx format)

[SadieKate]

The standard Garmin Communicator plug-in doesn't work?

Psst, can you bring your new toy at the end of the month?

[jobob]

Nope, not the ETrex.

(Although admittedly my learning curve is still on the steep part of the slope so I could be missing something).

Of course I will

[NomadGal]

To expand a bit on on slug's question, would it be possible to upload tracks from gps devices other than the Garmin Edge?

(I have a Garmin ETrex Vista HCx, from which I can save tracks in .gpx format)

Unfortunately, we don't support the eTrex Vista yet. We will support more devices as we move forward and the eTrex is the most commonly asked about device, so it might come next?

[kfergos]

Hi Ladies,

I had a couple frustrating issues with trying to upload from my Garmin to the +3 network site originally, and I wanted to share my solutions with you so anybody who has similar issues won't struggle as much as I did.

1. Plugin not working/device not found.
Solution: You have to go specifically to www.plus3network.com. If you just go to http://plus3network.com or something, it'll look the same, but the uploader doesn't work.

2. Device recognized and uploader says everything is copied...but then the site froze up after telling me the rides were successfully uploaded.
Solution: This was a trickier issue, but it turned out to be a two-fold problem:
(a) I had a corrupted file on my Garmin. I don't know how this happened or why, but once I removed it that helped.
(b) I had all my rides from late July onwards, including a century and several 60+ mile rides, on my Garmin. I was trying to upload this vast volume of data (about 60 megs, I believe it was; about 2,500 miles total) and the uploader simply could not handle it. By uploading in small, weekly or biweekly chunks, this problem has not cropped up again.

Another note: You can add data back onto your Garmin if you remove it. What I've done is I download all the rides and make a back-up file, so that they're not lost and gone forever. Then I clear out the memory of my Garmin. I believe you can use the Garmin Training Center to add data to your device. This is how I was able to upload all my miles to +3 network: I took it all off, then added it back bit by bit onto my device and uploaded it in smaller batches. If anybody wants more details on how to remove/add data to your Garmin, let me know and I can provide them.

- Katie F

PS - Find me on +3 network as Katie, with this avatar:

[SadieKate]

Nomad, is there any way to upload a gpx file instead of uploading directly from the Garmin? On Tuesday I did an mtb ride with friends. My Garmin only got the start and the end, missing the 9 miles in between. I got a gpx file of the ride from one of the other riders but don't see a way to upload it.

Thanks, Nicole

I asked the same question back in early October. This was NomadGirl's response way back then.

Hi Sarah,

There are some tricky issues with uploading Garmin history files. Because we’re donating money to charity based on validated GPS data, our sponsors are not wild about the idea of people being able to get a history file from anywhere and then uploading to Plus 3. The idea has been tossed around, but I’m not sure when we’ll see this, if ever.

[jobob]

That makes a lot of sense (unfortunately).

[MT_Advocate]

That makes a lot of sense (unfortunately).

People can't upload .gpx to the network but we can just go in and create as many activities without any kind of validation at all. I find it hard to believe that it's a trust issue since there is no way to validate any of the self reported data. I'm going to keep referring to this as a "needless pain in the ***".