Recently bought a Fenix 5 after my Fitbit died, and am generally loving it.
Only frustration I have is that it doesn't seem to play nicely with the Edge 1000 on my bike. If I just use the Edge to record a ride then the Fenix doesn't update with any of the data, so features like Recovery and Training Load become inaccurate (I know some people think these aren't that useful anyway, but I do want to track them and see if I can get some value). On the other hand, if I record the ride on both the Edge and the Fenix then I get duplicate rides showing up on Garmin Connect (though Strava seems smart enough to figure out what's going on and ignores the second ride).
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere or is that just how Garmin works? I still want to use the Edge for riding, since I like having lots of data on the bigger display, plus I use the navigation a lot. But I also want to get the full benefit of all the features on the Fenix. Right now it seems the only way I can do so is by recording rides on 2 devices and then manually going into Garmin Connect to delete one of them afterwards. Surely it can't be that hard for Garmin Connect to either consolidate 2 rides into 1, or better still just allow me to record it on the Edge and then upload the ride into the Fenix so that it can update Training Load and Recovery.
Only frustration I have is that it doesn't seem to play nicely with the Edge 1000 on my bike. If I just use the Edge to record a ride then the Fenix doesn't update with any of the data, so features like Recovery and Training Load become inaccurate (I know some people think these aren't that useful anyway, but I do want to track them and see if I can get some value). On the other hand, if I record the ride on both the Edge and the Fenix then I get duplicate rides showing up on Garmin Connect (though Strava seems smart enough to figure out what's going on and ignores the second ride).
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere or is that just how Garmin works? I still want to use the Edge for riding, since I like having lots of data on the bigger display, plus I use the navigation a lot. But I also want to get the full benefit of all the features on the Fenix. Right now it seems the only way I can do so is by recording rides on 2 devices and then manually going into Garmin Connect to delete one of them afterwards. Surely it can't be that hard for Garmin Connect to either consolidate 2 rides into 1, or better still just allow me to record it on the Edge and then upload the ride into the Fenix so that it can update Training Load and Recovery.