Your Garmin help, please

If you like, you are welcome to borrow my Garmin map for a weekend to compare.

Right...I'm hardly the most experienced Garmin man but try this.

I think you can only use virtual partner in simple workouts and courses. If you have a GPX route you want to run as a course, you can run it through a converter to get it into CRS format for tranferring to your Garmin. I used to use this site

http://www.gpsies.com/convert.do

Mapymyride is planning on allowing you to export to CRS but they've been saying that for ages.

If you've riden a workout already, you can just right button click on it in GTC and say create course. I think it then uses your speed performance for the virtual partner but I could be wrong.

Top tip: You might want to consider turning off course recalculation on your Garmin. I found that now and then, when using mapmyride, the directions would be wrong...once the garmin detects you are off course (when garmin map and mapmyride map conflict slightly) it tends to go a bit crazy although that was the 705 not the 800

thanks for the advice.. i think the 800 loads GPX/TCX? at least, you can load them up into Basecamp or whatever it's called, and send them from there.

i have to say it all seems, on the face of it, a bit clunky..maybe once i figure it out it'll click into place.

thanks everyone for all the advice, i'll be looking into the suggestions and software - cheers

i had no idea Garmin husbandry was such an involved business.