Garmin wireless ANT stick question

by **Jwolf** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:16 am

I recently bought a Garmin Forerunner 610. I love it! Since I'm injured I haven't been able to use it to run yet, but I've been trying it out on the bike, walking, etc. I love how the data gets transferred wirelessly to the computer via the ANT stick; because I don't have to plug it into the computer, I find myself wearing it as a regular watch.

Problem is it seems to want to repeatedly resend the data to the computer. I'll be sitting here and every 5 minutes or so it beeps and buzzes and resends the same data. Is there a way to get it to stop resending after it first transfers the data?

eta: I'm updating the firmware on the watch; I think that might fix it. NM.

by **Strider** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:17 pm

If that doesn't work, check the ANT stick settings and see if there is an option to only import new workouts. Mine is on my home computer so I can't confirm or deny that it exists, but I seem to remember some setting like that.

by **bunsontherun** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:32 pm

I love my 610 too Jenn. I am not having the problems you described. Today I bought the foot pod to go with it and am excited to see how that will come out on my download tonight.

by **Jwolf** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:36 pm

Thanks ken- After I updated the firmware the problem was solved.

In general I'm very happy with it.

I'm not really interested in the footpod because when I'm out of GPS range I measure my distance other ways or just go by time.

by **bunsontherun** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:00 pm

The footpod measures cadence/strides.
I am testing it all tonight during the 20 min challenge. I have not had my GPS go out of range yet. It even worked in China! (An acquaitance told me that GPS would not work in China that the Chinese Government blocks the satellite signals).

by **VDoT** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:12 pm

Also, make sure your ANT agent on your PC is up to date.

I have the foot pod paired with my 910XT. I never look at the cadence while running but I do like analyzing it later to see my cadence rate and how it changes over the course of a run.

It's also good for tracking TM runs too.

by **Jwolf** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:21 pm

VDoT wrote:Also, make sure your ANT agent on your PC is up to date.

Thanks.

That was actually the first thing I had to do because the ANT wasn't pairing with the watch at first.

Another thing-- now that it's so much easier to upload my data to Garmin Connect (does it automatically as soon as I come in the computer room), I've also downloaded the Garmin Fit App onto my iPhone. It did cost 99 cents, but I LOVE it because it allows me to see my data right on the phone.

by **bunsontherun** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:05 am

I couldn't understand why my watch wasn't pairing with the ANT after my run, but of course it was the ANT update. I shut off the watch after doing the run, but somehow it also tracked my drive from the location to home on the map. I was trying to see if I can edit the drive off the map, but nothing worked. I had an average of 62 spm, but I thought that the footpod would also measure my stride...but it doesn't. So then I started wondering if I bought another footpod for the other foot would it measure the stride then? Does anyone know? Does anyone know how to edit the route to take off my drive home?

by **phorunner** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:21 am

I have that issue occasionally, it sort of fixed itself when I moved the charger closer to the Ant Stick USB thing. I guess the extra juice from having it plugged in charging gives it stronger signal or something and it usually gets it on the first try when it's plugged in.

Also, sidebar, it worked better when less people had wifi on my street. I think, in general, we're going to have a lot of wireless issues in the future with devices interfering with eachother....

by **Jwolf** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:24 am

Ken-
I don't know how to edit the raw data, but I'm pretty sure you can't edit it on Garmin Connect.

As for your stride length- this should be calculable based on your cadence and pace- are you sure there isn't a field for that? Of course it will be average stride length and will change with pace so I'm not sure how useful that is. No, another footpod won't help (the watch can only process the data from one footpod, so it it picks up two you'll just get confused data).

by **VDoT** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:18 pm

bunsontherun wrote:I couldn't understand why my watch wasn't pairing with the ANT after my run, but of course it was the ANT update. I shut off the watch after doing the run, but somehow it also tracked my drive from the location to home on the map. I was trying to see if I can edit the drive off the map, but nothing worked. I had an average of 62 spm, but I thought that the footpod would also measure my stride...but it doesn't. So then I started wondering if I bought another footpod for the other foot would it measure the stride then? Does anyone know? Does anyone know how to edit the route to take off my drive home?

Ken

I am pretty sure that you can not sync two foot pods to the Garmin at the same time.

You can export the TCX file from Garmin Connect and then attempt to edit it manually. Or you could use SportTracks to open and edit the TCX file, and then re-upload it to Garmin Connect. There are also a couple of different ways in SportTracks that will calculate stride length or you can calculate it manually:

Stride length should be: total distance [m] / (avg. cadence [1/min] * duration [min])

by **bunsontherun** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:29 pm

[quote="VDoT"]
I am pretty sure that you can not sync two foot pods to the Garmin at the same time.

You can export the TCX file from Garmin Connect and then attempt to edit it manually. Or you could use SportTracks to open and edit the TCX file, and then re-upload it to Garmin Connect. There are also a couple of different ways in SportTracks that will calculate stride length or you can calculate it manually:

Stride length should be: total distance [m] / (avg. cadence [1/min] * duration [min])[/quote]

WTF? I have to be a mathematician to do my runs now :lol:

Thanks Dan and Jenn for your help.

by **marymac442** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:21 pm

bunsontherun wrote: I shut off the watch after doing the run, but somehow it also tracked my drive from the location to home on the map. I was trying to see if I can edit the drive off the map, but nothing worked. I had an average of 62 spm, but I thought that the footpod would also measure my stride...but it doesn't. So then I started wondering if I bought another footpod for the other foot would it measure the stride then? Does anyone know? Does anyone know how to edit the route to take off my drive home?

It should be straightforward - click on the lap you want to edit and click the X to delete.

by **Jwolf** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:39 pm

marymac442 wrote:
bunsontherun wrote: I shut off the watch after doing the run, but somehow it also tracked my drive from the location to home on the map. I was trying to see if I can edit the drive off the map, but nothing worked. I had an average of 62 spm, but I thought that the footpod would also measure my stride...but it doesn't. So then I started wondering if I bought another footpod for the other foot would it measure the stride then? Does anyone know? Does anyone know how to edit the route to take off my drive home?

It should be straightforward - click on the lap you want to edit and click the X to delete.

If you are in the laps and you click the X, it still deletes the entire activity.

I'm pretty sure you can't delete individual laps in Garmin Connect. It's come up in discussion forums before- people have come up with all sorts of fixes but they all involve exporting the raw data and editing that.

eta, for example: http://milemeter.wordpress.com/2012/05/ ... rmin-data/

(this is one reason why I like using itsmyrun.com

)

by **marymac442** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:50 am

I have Garmin Training centre, all of my runs display on left side of screen.

I can click on run to show list of laps and can edit individual laps there.

If you open the run to see splits, etc, you can't do any edits there.

by **Jwolf** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:04 am

marymac442 wrote:I have Garmin Training centre, all of my runs display on left side of screen.

I can click on run to show list of laps and can edit individual laps there.

If you open the run to see splits, etc, you can't do any edits there.

I thought you meant Garmin Connect-
You're right- I never knew you could do this on GTC- and it also changes the data on the map too. Good to know... (when you delete it on Itsmyrun, it doesn't change the map, only the laps)

Before I got this new watch I was only using Garmin Training Center to download the data and then transfer it to IMR- but now I love that it goes into GC directly. I never used GTC for anything else, but it seems there is something useful about it.