This may be impossible but can you make it so that the measurer tool will draw a loop for you? I mean if you specify a start and end point, can you programme the tool to find route of different lengths using roads and or cycle paths around your input points?? That would be ace!

Ashley - Yeah, that would be cool, but I suspect asking too much! You're probably aware of this, but you can select 'Snap to Roads' which allows you to click anywhere and it will select the nearest point on a road and draw the shortest route along roads to it. It doesn't work with cycle paths, though, also doesn't work when inserting points, and of course you can't tell it how long to make the loop.

Lauren - Choose 'Insert', then click the last point before the bit you want to add in. This adds a point midway to the next one. Then move the new point to where you want it and repeat until done.

Have I got those about right, John?

Hi John,

The obvious one which I have mentioned before is the ability to split the route using something like a waypoint so I could use say a 6 mile route as the 1st mile easy run, miles 2 - 5 tempo run, and finally mile 6 easy, and then the ability to segregate these in the performance figures, because at the moment the whole run is agregated.

I know the multi run does that but you physically have to chop the route up and as it is I have over 200 routes listed on my route and it gets a bit confusing if I have to further segregate them.

Hi Derek,

I've discussed this with John before and its very complicated as you can imagine when you are downloading from a garmin and trying to split the route into different sections of varying pace. I too do this sort of training as a lot must do and am glad you brought it up.

Just to clarify, what do you do at the moment; stop the watch and log it as 3 separate runs?

Hi Andy,

What I tend to do is break the route into 3 separate maps for example Stage 1 Pennine way which is 1 mile from the start, then Stage 2 Pennine Way which is 4 miles and this is where I do my Intervals or tempo runs, then Stage 3 Pennine way which is 1 mile for the warm down. Then I 'group' all of these into a multi part entry which is a little messy but it's the only way I can extract the stats for the different types of runs.

Hi John

I'm not sure if this is at all possible, but I love to spend my days out in the countryside, dales....pennines or peak district, and have tried and failed to find any system that is able to show footpaths and bridleways.....as an ordnance survey map does. Is this a step too far for this fantastic site to be able to provide ?

Thanks

Tony

Is there any chance of extra folders to store routes?  The last post made me think I could just add more but I found I already have the maximum (4 plus archive).  A few more would be great if it were possible - I like to be organised!

If the space across the page is the issue, how about having a sub-folder structure?

If you had up to five "top folders" and then each one could contain up to five "sub folders" that contain the routes.

So for the "price" of one extra click, you instantly increase the available folders to a maximum of 25.  

As an example, a user could have top folders such as "Races", "Training" and "Misc",  and then inside "Races" there could be folders for "<5K", "5-9K", "10-20K", "HM" and "Marathon", and then in "Training" they could have lets say folders for "Speedwork", "Hills", and "Long Runs".. and so on.

... and now try and read that last post without doing "air quotes" like "Doctor Evil".... ;o)

"Whatever....."