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how to: stitch two garmin files together
Aug. 30th, 2014 12:01 pmSince I have explained this twice now to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dphilli1, I might as well put it up onlye. So you accidentally hit stop/start instead of lap halfway through a ride/run: here's how to fix it.
Step one: upload the rides to Garmin Connect. They've just changed their interface and I had to set it back to Classic to find anything, so I expect if I tell you how to find stuff it will be useless shortly when they force us all to the new view. But all of these features should be there.
Open each of the activities you want to combine in Garmin Connect. Export them to TCX, and remember the order they go in. (You can rename the files to "one.tcx", "two.tcx" etc as you download -- I do, and that's what I'll call the files.)
Open "one.tcx" and "two.tcx" in a decently functional text editor (Wordpad, TextWrangler, emacs). These are XML files (syntax very much like HTML). Go to the end of "one.tcx" and scroll back up until you find a line that says </Lap>. Put a blank line after it, and go to "two.tcx". In this file, delete everything before the first <Lap> (no /, just Lap). Go to the end and delete everything after the last </Lap>. Select all, and copy it onto the blank line you put in "one.tcx". Repeat as needed, adding the later rides onto the end of the first.
Save the file, and upload manually to wherever you want your data to go -- Strava, etc. You may lose some metadata -- I lose the temperature data from my rides when I do this.
dphilli1, I might as well put it up onlye. So you accidentally hit stop/start instead of lap halfway through a ride/run: here's how to fix it.Step one: upload the rides to Garmin Connect. They've just changed their interface and I had to set it back to Classic to find anything, so I expect if I tell you how to find stuff it will be useless shortly when they force us all to the new view. But all of these features should be there.
Open each of the activities you want to combine in Garmin Connect. Export them to TCX, and remember the order they go in. (You can rename the files to "one.tcx", "two.tcx" etc as you download -- I do, and that's what I'll call the files.)
Open "one.tcx" and "two.tcx" in a decently functional text editor (Wordpad, TextWrangler, emacs). These are XML files (syntax very much like HTML). Go to the end of "one.tcx" and scroll back up until you find a line that says </Lap>. Put a blank line after it, and go to "two.tcx". In this file, delete everything before the first <Lap> (no /, just Lap). Go to the end and delete everything after the last </Lap>. Select all, and copy it onto the blank line you put in "one.tcx". Repeat as needed, adding the later rides onto the end of the first.
Save the file, and upload manually to wherever you want your data to go -- Strava, etc. You may lose some metadata -- I lose the temperature data from my rides when I do this.