I do a lot of gravel races. The roads are usually not very well-marked (street signs) and reliable paper cue sheets are not always available. What is usually available is the course for download to your Garmin device.
I currently have a Forerunner 310XT which does do courses, but it's not very reliable. There isn't an actual map, and a lot of times it tells me I'm off-course when I'm not, and vice-versa. It also has a tendency to not give much warning for turns, so I end up blowing by quite a few, which sucks when you're trying to race.
What I'm looking for is a device that I can download the course to that will display an actual map with the course overlayed that will show turns in advance of actual reaching them (similar to what you get with a phone/car GPS).
In reading the reviews on DC Rainmaker, I *think* only the Edge 810 and Edge 1000 will do this, and you have to download additional maps (the free Openstreet maps or similar). Is that true? Anything else I should know?
Do these devices give a distance countdown to the upcoming turn (again, like your car GPS)?
Thanks.
Steve
"If you ain't first, you're last." Reese Bobby Talladega Nights
I currently have a Forerunner 310XT which does do courses, but it's not very reliable. There isn't an actual map, and a lot of times it tells me I'm off-course when I'm not, and vice-versa. It also has a tendency to not give much warning for turns, so I end up blowing by quite a few, which sucks when you're trying to race.
What I'm looking for is a device that I can download the course to that will display an actual map with the course overlayed that will show turns in advance of actual reaching them (similar to what you get with a phone/car GPS).
In reading the reviews on DC Rainmaker, I *think* only the Edge 810 and Edge 1000 will do this, and you have to download additional maps (the free Openstreet maps or similar). Is that true? Anything else I should know?
Do these devices give a distance countdown to the upcoming turn (again, like your car GPS)?
Thanks.
Steve
"If you ain't first, you're last." Reese Bobby Talladega Nights