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Yeah, that would work but I meant something different. Edit the course and set its colour to bright green or something. Then set it to "Always Display". Then you can follow the green line on your map without the Garmin trying to route you somewhere wrong and presumably uses less processing power as it's not calculating the course over its installed maps. You don't get stuff like Distance to Destination but it's better than the Garmin turning a 400k audax into a 600k because of its fucking stupid routing (which happened to me on the weekend and was why I stopped the Follow Course option in the first place, now I think about it).
hippy-
huh, I was under the impression that's what my method was doing - it instantly brings up the line on the map (rather than doing that "calculating" thing) when I load the map and it just looks like its overlaid the line I drew on ridewithgps on top of the map. Fairly sure it's not doing any of its own routing at all.*
I am on a Touring Edge though, so this stuff might be different on higher end models.
I have all that "recalculation" stuff turned off as well, so there's no funny business if I go off course (learned the hard way on this!).
*of course, being garmin, you're never entirely sure what is going on.
Brookly_Bay
I export the "GPX Track" from Ridewithgps.
I have Turn by Turn OFF but Off Course Warnings ON.
That gives me a line to follow on the map and a beep if I go off course.