Hi. I’m not sure why I can’t figure this one out but I have Ben doing indoor trainer rides and uploading to Garmin. Then it gets auto loaded to Strava. In Strava it is categorized as a “ride”. I can’t change it to “virtual ride”. Is there nothing stored in the .fit file indicating it is a virtual ride?
It isn’t a huge issue but I would like to separate my real rides from my indoor rides at the end of the year.
Cheers
In strava it is “ride” I think you mean in Garmin? You can download the TCX and edit it in a text editor. We can test this too. Soon I am going to have my developer improve the TCX and fit file exports to be better for garmin. See my strava below
Cool. Can I ask what you use to edit with?
So Visual Studio Code is free and a nice code editor, but really any text editor both windows and mac have them built in (notepad pc, and textEdit mac) . Here is what it looks like. If I remember, someone said you can’t import a virtual ride into Garmin but I might be wrong. I think if you search the forum someone is talking about importing these files and what they do.
Thanks but I just tried searching again and I can change the ride to virtual ride within Garmin. So I will see if that works to just manually then upload to Strava. 3 steps, but pretty easy. Thanks again.
I assume you are not using our paid app? If you have the paid one the automatic uploads to strava should be marked as virtual rides, I just showed above that mine is.
Oh. Ok. There is a possible solution then. Yes I used the paid app. It is the best app out there. Bang for your buck! Thanks for your help!
Hijacking this as it seems appropriate…
All Trainerday rides are being flagged as virtual rides, and the drop down to change is greyed out. These don’t sync from Strava to Veloviewer, I’m assuming it’s because of this flag, as I have activities from other training apps in Strava and they all sync to VV, and the only difference is the Virtual Ride flag, as far as I can see.
What’s the best way around this?
Maybe it’s possible because we don’t put speed and distance or GPS coordinates that VeloViewer doesn’t pick it up, because I assume Zwift does and they also put that virtual flag.
