![]() tcx files when there might have been a small corruption of the ride file preventing it from being uploaded to Strava. Unfortunately, Relive’s record of the ride was based on the incomplete 1o5kms ride – but hey….first world problems!Ī while ago, I posted an example of how to edit. ![]() True, the last part has my friend’s heart rate etc, but we rode together, and all the location and speed data is correct and since my own Garmin recorded everything about my ride up to 105kms or so, out of a total of 140kms, most of the data in the ride is good for me.įinally – all ride pictures found their way into the right places on the new Strava posting. I have also now deleted it so as not to gather double distance on my own Strava activity reporting. ![]() I had already (quickly!!) made the incomplete one private, so as not to gather “kudos” onto the wrong ride posting. That site can automatically upload the file to Strava, and this is what I used yesterday to post my Callander Sportive ride. Just to be safe, accept the option to randomise the file ID (as if you already uploaded your original incomplete file, Strava will probably refuse another file with the same start time and owner. Now go to (as I have posted about before at ) and upload, and combine your own ride file, and the partial one created from your friend’s file, using the very simple dialog on that site. xml, to make it a recognisable ride file for Garmin and Strava. ![]() Save, in your text editor, the newly created file with a. You will see that the Lat/Long match pretty well at the changeover point, as does the altitude, allowing for slight differences as they were recorded on different devices.Īdding the preamble and postamble data to your friend’s latter part of the ride makes it a properly constituted XML file. Now you have two ride files available, with complete preambles and postambles – your own original one finishing (say) with the last trackpoint at:Īnd your friend’s data, from the part of the ride after that, starting with the trackpoint, say: Which contain generic and summary information about the xml version and other data, and add those into the front and back respectively of the partial trackpoint file for you friend’s ride you just created and saved from. Then copy their preamble (everything before their first trackpoint) Īnd postamble (everything ATER their last trackpoint) tcx file, just look at the last timestamp tag in your own file between the and tags, in my case Īnd then find the next recorded trackpoint in your friend’s file Īnd copy that and all the subsequent trackpoints, and included tagged variables, from their file, and paste into a new file. tcx file, and also your co-rider’s complete. I use the free TextWrangler editor (there’s a more advanced chargeable version called BBEdit, but that isn’t necessary). gpx ride files are alphanumeric tagged XML files, and they can be edited with a text editor. fit file (for modern Garmins), not easily editable, but downloaded. Their original Garmin file in their device will probably be a. tcx file (it contains ALL the ride data). ![]() If only part of the ride is missing, there’s another approach.Īsk a friend you were riding with to download their own ride file from their Garmin Connect as a. The issue with that (although it does give a good fall-back option) is that aspects of the ride personal to the other rider, such as heart rate will be missing, so you get no “suffer score” and power data. Now that Strava has a new facility called “add someone who didn’t record”, if you WERE riding with someone else, they can send you their ride fit file through Strava, and you can upload that instead. For the second time, most of my ride was recorded, but possibly as the battery life began to drop, or through some other cause, the last section of my ride after the last rest point wasn’t recorded. Just a little more after I lost the last part of a ride yesterday on my Garmin 520, which seems to be misbehaving lately. ![]()
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