I went from the eMap and a Forerunner 301 to the 705, which a friend gave me when he upgraded. I’ve been thinking about a newer one for awhile, but they are so expensive it really takes me forever to make the plunge. If it wasn’t for gift cards, I’d still be using the 705 - and I probably will still use it on a couple of my lower-milage bikes to save me the hassle of buying/swapping mounts. I’m also internally struggling with the fact that my mid-range vision has changed in the last couple of years so the bigger screen is really a plus.
I feel like this is going to take me awhile to figure out what I like to see at a glance as I’m riding. A lot of my woods rides are following history, so that’s a whole other map to set up.
The way I’ve done stopping, since the 301 days, was not to have auto-pause turned on, and let Ascent strip out my stopped times. That way I can see at a glance how long I’ve been out, but Ascent will give me the actual moving time and average. I don’t like having traffic lights factored into my average speed.
So if I stop to get water or something, the GPS stays running even though it’s not clocking any miles. So far on the 1030 I’ve always hit the button to stop the track, but I am forgetting to hit save because I’m not used to seeing it there. I guess at the least, it will prevent me from adding on to the same track accidentally like I’ve done on the 705 if I forget to reset.
I downloaded Turtle Sport - turns out the list was the only thing I liked so I’m not going any further with that.
Thanks for the tip on fitfiletools, I’ll check that out. I’ll probably continue to play with Rubitracks and Ascent and see where that goes.
Diane