Forerunner 35 Gurus - help please!!

[UpTheStanley]

I've just done my first Parkrun with my new Garmin. I find that despite being set to metric, and doing everything else in metric, including beeping at me every 500m as requested, it gives me mile split times (but showing the distance as 1.61k). And although I can see pace, cadence and heart rate against either time or distance, I can't find time against distance. So I can't (easily) find kilometre split times, which is how I've been recording performance over the previous 50 runs. I'm sure I must be missing something obvious - can anyone help me out?

Second question - is there any way of pulling data from Garmin Connect into the Strava app? I tried to run with both, but Strava had a hissy fit and stopped after a minute or so - I've deleted that activity but it hasn't picked up the Garmin data, whereas Dexy5, who didn't start Strava, can see her Garmin data on both, thanks to the magic of Bluetooth (which I have now got on).

Thanks in advance …….

[Ripcurlrana71 Graduate10]

Hi!

Garmin Connect app: Click on your run and then 3rd along is a circular arrow. Click on that and it will give you your per km pace/time.

Yes you can link via Garmin Connect app to Strava. It will then auto upload to Strava after your activity.

[UpTheStanley Graduate10 in reply to Ripcurlrana71]

Thanks Rip, that's where I found my mile splits - and where Dexy's does do Ks

So there must be a setting hidden somewhere to change the lap distance.

[Ripcurlrana71 Graduate10 in reply to UpTheStanley]

I would google it for sure. 😊

[ju-ju- Graduate10]

Yes, you just go to the Garmin app on your phone and then you can link it to Strava, it’s dead easy. If you aren’t sure there will be a YouTube vid out there that will tell you!!!

[UpTheStanley Graduate10 in reply to ju-ju-]

Thanks, I'll try that next. Running's so easy, compared to the tech

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I had trouble with my Fenix 5s and km. It kept registering the runs in miles on the app though I'd selected km. I used Garmin Express on the computer and altered the preferences on there. that seemed to sort it out.

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

The Strava problem's solved , thank you everybody, by manually exporting the data from Garmin and importing to Strava following JoJo's clues on the Strava Support site.

Still looking for the hidden setting that will change my lap distance from 1.61k, i.e. 1mile, to 1k …..

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

I have now discovered (thanks Pianoteacher) that on the watch (but not on phone or computer), a click on "Auto Lap" tells you whether it thinks a lap is a mile or a kilometre - but doesn't offer any way of changing it

But if you switch Auto Lap off, then on again, it may change to whatever units you have got set up elsewhere - or possibly you may have to switch units to miles then back to ks while Auto Lap is off - we pressed so many buttons in random order I can't be sure!

Anyway, Auto Lap is now set to ks . But the record for this morning's run stubbornly still shows mile laps - which I sort of understand, as passing each mile, rather than each k, will have been the "recorded event" as far as the watch was concerned.

I'm still a bit surprised that the system doesn't offer a distance v time graph, though. It's got all the data it needs to do it …..

Thanks one and all!

[Hidden in reply to UpTheStanley]

Have you seen my suggestion of doing it in garmin express on the computer. If you don’t have it on your computer, you need to download it

[UpTheStanley Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks Flick, yes, I've got Garmin Express and Connect (and Strava) on the computer - I use my phone as little as possible (fading eyes and fat thumbs )