I’m Marcus, your host here at Garmin’s training video series.
Here at Garmin, we have cyclists across all disciplines.
Many of our Road Cyclists are motivated by personal improvement and competition, pushing themselves to go further and faster.
And our Adventure Cyclists – well many of them are motivated by the thrill of the adventure and like to explore the unknown.
Our rides are designed to challenge us physically and inspire us emotionally.
But no matter which category you fit in, we want you to be motivated by the well-rounded, compelling and no-excuses functionality of your cycling computer.
So today, let me introduce you to the Garmin Edge 1030 Plus.
When we train, we strive to be better than our last great ride.
Well, the expectations of the 1030 Plus are no different.
It’s designed to build and improve on the orginal Edge 1030.
We’ve updated the 3.5-inch touch screen display for improved performance.
And we’ve also improved the processor, giving you better touchscreen responsiveness, efficiency, and route calculation that’s twice as fast as the 1030.
So all of these upgrades have to reduce the battery life, right? not – at – all.
In fact, the 1030 Plus boasts up to a 24-hour battery life, even when paired with sensors and when connected to your compatible phone.
And when connected to the optional Garmin Charge battery pack, you can double that already great battery life.
Wait, did I just say the 1030 Plus has a 24-hour battery life?
Wow! That’s amazing!
So we’re saying it has a better screen, it’s faster, and has a longer battery life? It can’t get any better than that. But it does.
When your goal is to improve performance, having a coach to help you train is huge.
So we want to paint you a clear picture of your fitness and your training.
With the 1030 Plus, you’ll get coaching through Daily Suggested Workouts.
The Daily Suggested Workout takes into account a cyclist’s weekly training load, the balance of their training, and their recovery state.
It then generates a workout based on this information, helping you understand what to do next to continue your progression.
We want you be at the peak of your performance.
So we designed the Edge 1030 Plus to help you set and exceed your training goals with structured workouts that sync to your edge.
You can get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Intelligent Training plan builder in the Garmin Connect app
or sync seamlessly to your Edge from other apps including Training Peaks and Trainer Road.
But syncing your workouts is the easy part.
You’ll get all the benefits and all the credit when the real work begins.
No matter how far you ride, the Edge 1030 Plus will show you the way.
But we’ve made some navigation improvements to help you ride like a local both on and off road.
When you’re ready to go off course intentionally and don’t want to adjust your route,
like a visit mid-ride to your local coffee shop or even when nature calls,
the Pause Navigation feature allows you to pause the navigation when you go off course and it will automatically start up again when you rejoin your route.
Or, if you go off course and want to be guided back to your route, the 1030 Plus has Off-Course Re-Route Options,
providing you with up to three options of where to rejoin your route.
You can Rejoin at the point you went off course,
Skip Ahead and rejoin the course at the next logical forward point, or even Cut Across and rejoin at a point further along the course.
The 1030 Plus will show the distance to the end for each option, so you can choose your preference and have more control than ever before.
What if you prefer to plan your routes on 3rd party sites such as Strava, Komoot, or Ride With GPS?
Well the 1030 Plus has seamless 3rd party course integration for that too.
Yep, you heard that right!
The new Garmin Connect Courses API allows those courses to automatically come across to Garmin Connect and the Edge 1030 Plus.
And when you’re following a route or course, there are those climbs that seem like they’ll never end.
But with the ClimbPro feature, you’ll be able to see the remaining ascent and grade when your climbing.
This will help you gauge your effort to make sure you have some fuel left in your tank when you need it most.
For those of you that prefer to shred the trails,
the new Mountain Bike Dynamics feature will allow you to track the epic details of every ride with metrics such as jump count, jump distance, and hang time.
You’ll even know the difficulty and smoothness of your ride with Grit and Flow.
Grit rates the difficulty of the ride using GPS, elevation, and other data.
While Flow measures how smoothly you descend a trail so you have a score to beat next time.
So get out there and rail those berms.
No matter where we ride, we like to stay connected with others.
So we’ve made some simple LiveTrack improvements to the 1030 Plus.
Now you can let others keep track of your progress more easily, by being able to start a LiveTrack session directly from the Edge while connected to a smartphone.
And the new Livetrack course view allows you to share your planned course, so those following you remotely can see where you’re headed as well as where you’ve been.
Now you’re probably thinking, “But what if my ride takes me out of cell phone range, then what?”
Well we understand your concern because it’s a concern for us as well.
So we’ve added the ability to pair an inReach device with your Edge 1030 Plus.
This will allow you to view and reply to messages, share trip data, and even trigger interactive SOS alerts with an active inReach device subscription,
allowing you to stay connected, even in the remote places you explore.
From pushing your limits indoors on your Tacx trainer, to those epic climbs, or even riding remote gravel trails,
the Edge 1030 Plus is the ultimate GPS cycling computer that’s ready for any ride.
And it’s designed to help you set and exceed your training goals, and motivate you to improve.
Explore the world and your limits – with the Edge 1030 Plus.
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For now, that’s all I‘ve got.
This is Marcus from Garmin, wishing you all the best.
And in all that you do, we want to help you beat yesterday.