First it was quite ok: there was a voicedirection and I had bluetooth headphones in but everytime I wanted to check where exactly I am now, what the direction was again because I didn’t quite get it the first time, it became hideous and more importantly: it’s very interrupting to check the phone every few k’s just to check the directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tried this out another few times and there was a key-moment after which I decided I need a better solution: I was running in a quite remote area, still in vienna, the Lobau. First I got completely lost: it’s a flat area and I was unintentionally just running in circles. Secondly this was also a very popular nude bathing area: and I got by there several times. At least often enough to be watched suspiciously by some nude guys who just had seen me pass by \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time, I was already quite into the garmin eco-system so my choice fell on the fenix 5 (not 5X, not 5s and 5plus was not out yet). Another point, apart from the navigation, for this was the barometrical elevation-sensor and the battery-lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using the garmin connect<\/a>, I tried to get a track on the watch and following it. First I tought the turn-by-turn was quite cool. After 5 runs I started hating it… First it got annoying, secondly, for really large tracks, 30k+, the watch was not able to save all point correctly and it became very unreliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another point against this was, that the track-creator is not able to mark certain points (like a fountain, mountain-tops, etc…). There was the way to create something like this as a waypoint, but this was then as reliable as the turn-by-turn navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I needed another way to create the tracks and get it on the watch: I tried basecamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Equipped with open-source maps and basecamp I tried planning and navigating through tracks there: which was fine at first, until I saw a huge flaw: the elevation-graph on the tracks for navigation was broken. I reproduced the bug and informed garmin, but at this time, basecamp was already out of service and I don’t have any hope that this will be fixed anytime soon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n I gave garmin explore a shot, and this was somehow not finished… Managing tracks was fine, managing waypoints was fine: but creating tracks simply not possible. I though ok, at least a decent management-application for getting existing tracks in order and on the watch: but then they changes something: they removed elevation-parameters from imported tracks. This made it again useless and I gave up on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can see I’ve tried quite a lot and the solution I’m currently stuck with is Gpsies <\/a>for creating the track and still basecamp to manage them. And since there is no decent app for this stuff on the phone, I rely on the good old cable to get them to the watch.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a long time I rather was not thinking about navigation: on the streets, there is no need to: but on the trails this is something else… My first approach was quite simple: you have a phone anyways with you,… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/trailrunning.madmap.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20170618_154955-EFFECTS-1024x768.jpg\")
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