Manual Entries vs Electronic Recording on Strava

[americancyclo]

@Vicegrip 137439 wrote:

interesting. I think the 5 seg min on the Garmin Edges is a bit conservative. I have run my 500 and 1000 in sub 0 with no issues.

I re-powered my 500 a while ago after the old battery was going from full charge to almost dead in 6 hours. The new battery (Same spec as the OEM) lasts longer than the run times Garmin published for it.

The listed temps for my older Garmin 800 are a bit wider range:

-4F to 140F

I know i’ve seen temps into the negative singles, but not sure if less than -4F

[americancyclo]

I also offered my old phone up to a teammate that might not have had a working GPS. I’m sure that between all the participants, we could arrange to cheaply sell or offer ‘loaner’ devices for BAFS17 for those that want them.

can we allow manual entry but not support it?

[Vicegrip]

@rcannon100 137453 wrote:

Realizing that I could buy a refurbished old iphone for a fraction of the cost of a garmin. Would not even have to turn it on to a telephone network. I am sort of amazed that garmin is able to hang on (the price of their car GPSs did plummet) {oh, well that says something – Garmin stock over last 10 years… lost 2.5%}

The Edge is far better than a phone for many aspects of cycling. They last longer are more accurate and you have real time data right in front of you. Not just the Elite stuff like recording cadence, watts, average speed or where the next KOM is hiding . I often use ride time, time of day, cadence and the like. Need a quick point back to right path when I get a bit turned around or wonder where a 7/11 is in relation to me is a swipe away.

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