Irritated Garmin Edge user lookin to commiserate

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

OMG! At least ten replies had been posted after my last post and TE didn't send me notification! Roar!

LOVE and appreciate all the information gals!!

I spent a good chunk last night importing Edge rides and equipment used. I added one plug-in for GPS Powertrack hoping that was the one that'd show me weather, avg MOVING speed, and gradients. I know it's supposed to extrapolate power info w/o a power meter... But I was really hoping for those other items.

Which plugins will give me the info I'm losing off MotionBased? Or do I just need to stop being lazy with the pause button (for an accurate moving avg)?

Sporttracks is looking VERY cool!!

[OakLeaf]

For weather, go to Settings:Display and enter your location.

But, I don't use that much. There have been some bugs on and off in weather data retrieval. You have to enter your location rather than it automatically choosing the weather station from your GPS location. Plus, at best, it retrieves only temperature and atmospheric conditions; and the weather stations don't appear to be very accurate. So I manually correct weather data for my rides/runs in the USA, by going to the National Weather Service, entering the zip code to get to the forecast page [best and most accurate forecasts IMO, BTW], then clicking on the "3 Day History" link at the bottom of the "Current Conditions" pane. That will give you hour-by-hour humidity and wind speed and direction, as well as temperature, precipitation and cloud cover. (Smaller airport weather stations may only report during the daytime, though.)

For moving averages, it's a two-step process. First, go to Select View:Categories:Activity Categories and choose the activity you want to edit (running, road cycling, trail cycling, etc.). For that activity, choose the pace or speed you want to count as "stopped." Then, go to Settings:Display:Analysis, and un-check "Include stopped in time & distance totals." That'll be the same pane where you edit your data smoothing preferences, too.


For displaying gradients, go to the bottom left panel in your Daily Activity window and click the triangle on the right of the title bar (defaults to Summary), to see a pull-down menu, and select Elevation. Then in the bottom window, you can use the pull-down menu to choose a display of grade or elevation against distance or time; click the little button that's an image of a graph to add more data to your graph; and click the button that's an image of a window to make the graph take the whole bottom pane rather than being divided into map and graph. With the map pane open, you can click on the map to show that point on the graph, or hover your cursor over the graph to select points along it.


Just play with SportTracks and you'll learn as you go. I know it does a lot that I don't know how to do yet. The people on the SportTracks forums are super helpful, too.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Thank you thank you! First major hurdles out of the way.

I'm like Mr Silver... don't much like change! LOL... but I'm fairly good with figuring out software (once I get a one or two pointers) <wink>

Pretty nifty tool!