Hello my name is Emanuel and in this video I'm going to show you how you can create a

course through Garmin Connect and send it to your Garmin device.

Now once you're logged in go ahead and click on this upper left icon and select courses.

We're going to go to create course.

Let's give our course a name.

With Garmin Connect, you can create a bicycle course or a running course.

In this particular example, I'm going to do a bicycle course.

These solid green lines here, the dark green lines, are indications that there are no motor

vehicles on these paths, so you are free to ride or run and not worry about any motor

vehicles.

And then there are some lighter green segments.

These are streets that have bike lanes.

So if you're looking at doing some cycling and you see some roads that have a lighter

green color to it, that means there is a bike lane on that street.

And then you'll see a dotted green line, these are just preferred cycling routes.

These are probably streets with low traffic that are preferred for cycling.

Let's say I live in this neighborhood, I'll zoom in here and I'm going to switch to a

satellite view which allows me to better picture where I'm going to start and stop at.

So let's say I want to start in this parking lot right here.

Now that I have my starting spot, I'm going to click back on map and in my settings, I

have "stay on road" checked.

So this will allow me to...I can loosely click on the map and it will add the path to the

closest road where my click is.

So "stay on road", you can also do "mile markers" so you can see when your miles are starting

to appear on the map.

So let's say I want to go this way, I can actually zoom out so that I can click further

along my path.

Ok, so at this point I'm at six miles, so I can do a "reverse", if I click "reverse"

that means I'm actually changing my start and ending point which means, I'm starting

at this point and ending where I originally started the route.

So I don't want to necessarily do that.

I'm going to reverse it back.

much route me back to my starting point, so as you can see, mile 6, mile 7, mile 8, mile

9, it takes me all the way back to where I started.

The other thing I can do is a "loop to start."

So if I actually...I'm going to undo my "out and back", if I do "loop to start", what it

does is, it finds a path to get me back to my starting point, and it kind of just...I'm

not sure how it picks it out, but it just finds a path to get you, it basically makes

a loop out of your route.

If you want to modify parts of your path, if you hover your mouse over a certain point

you can just click and drag.

Say I wanted to, I'm going to click on this point, I'm going to drag over to this

road here and, Garmin Connect will re-adjust the route.

So now that is a loop out to start.

Now I don't normally use that option.

So I'm going to show you exactly what I would do.

If I wanted to...if I actually wanted to...say do part of the route back, what I'm going

to do is...because I've already clicked on the road, I'm not going to click on it again

because Garmin will think I'm trying to re-adjust my route, or add extra points, so what I'm

going to do is click...I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to click a little bit off the

path.

As you can see, the distance will continue to add up.

So I'm technically riding this path back.

Over here, so I'm at 7 miles.

Let's just say I wanted to go on this route, so I'm just going to continue to click.

It's going to show me that my route is 15.27 miles.

So let's say that I want to ride at 17 miles per hour.

That means that I'll get this route done in 53 minutes and 54 seconds approximately.

Something else you can see, which is every helpful is the elevation.

I'm going to expand this view.

It gives me an idea of the elevation throughout my route.

That's actually pretty handy as well.

Alright, I think that pretty much covers this part of the course creation, so I'm going

to save it.

Now at any point I can click on this pencil icon and edit the route.

Now this lock here...I can make this course private or public.

If I actually wanted to share this course with the people in my community, I can just

leave it unlocked.

I can also click on the share option and I can share it over social media or through

email, or I can even embed it on my website.

But what we want to do here is, we want to send this to our Garmin device, so click on

"send device" and it will allow you select the device that you want to send it to.

If you have any questions just let me know but hopefully this helps you out a little

bit, and I'll see you next time.