Garmie Question (Read 1029 times)

IBTW, in a race, be sure to turn Auto-Lap off. Since Garmie and the race's mile markers are sure to differ by some small amount, you'll get very confusing lap distances if Auto-Lap and you manually hitting Lap at the mile-markers are fighting it out.

Does this mean I should turn off Auto-Lap (um, duh, like you said ) and then just hit LAP at each mile marker? Or --- will the Garmin figure it out after I hit it at the first mile marker. (Great advice, thanks --- I used AutoLap at Baltimore HM and it drove me nuts!) This is my gameplan: 5 miles 44:35 10 miles 1:29:10 15 miles 2:13:45 20 miles 2:58:20 25 miles 3:42:55 26.219 miles 3:53:47 (I'll probably write the times for 5m, 10m, and 15m on my arm so I can refer to them) ... Thanks again MM for the great idea.

BTW, in a race, be sure to turn Auto-Lap off. Since Garmie and the race's mile markers are sure to differ by some small amount, you'll get very confusing lap distances if Auto-Lap and you manually hitting Lap at the mile-markers are fighting it out.

I dunno - I would find myself going "what??!? mile X already? D'oh - missed another split" . I like to keep a general idea of my progress, knowing I can download and analyze it later, rather than rely on paying attention. Seems like with GPS you are accurate within a distance, not a percentage as with a pedometer - so over longer runs it becomes more accurate where a pedometer becomes less. (Anal enough to have a garmin but not enough to worry about 10 paces on splits ) YMMV