GPS for surveying

[Roger]

I upgraded from my second expired Garmin Forerunner 305 to a Forerunner 410, and had problems the wireless ANT transfer: when trying to upload to either SportTracks or Strava, old activities were available but the most recent ones weren't.

The solution was to allow the automatic upload to Garmin Training Center (but with the tracks marked 'private', so my planning / controlling visits weren't visible to the whole world!), which otherwise I avoid. Having uploaded to the Training Center, the ANT software (Garmin Connect) then admits that there are some new activities and I can upload them to the software that I actually use. A quick peek at Training Center when trying to solve this problem showed that it had improved a lot since I'd looked at maybe 3 years ago.

The downside of the auto-upload to Training Center is that if I arrive home from a run or ride and am stretching in the porch, the transfer starts immediately (which ends the activity) so I can't quickly review the data for the session that I've just done without delving into the history. And if I have to nip home during a lunchtime training session then I get two activities!