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HowFar 0.4.0
HowFar, a free Garmin data field that shows the time to the next checkpoint of your course, learned from how you climb and descend.
Which file do I need? Pick the one for your watch:
| Watch | File |
|---|---|
| Enduro 3 | HowFar-enduro3.prg |
| fēnix 8 43 mm | HowFar-fenix843mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 47 mm | HowFar-fenix847mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 47 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar47mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 51 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar51mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 42 mm | HowFar-epix2pro42mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 47 mm | HowFar-epix2pro47mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 51 mm | HowFar-epix2pro51mm.prg |
How to install: connect the watch with its cable, open the GARMIN → Apps folder (on a Mac, with the free app OpenMTP) and copy the file there. If you have an older HowFar file there, replace it. Step by step: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/#install
Copied this way, HowFar has no settings, so the course profile can't be pasted. It works fully otherwise; the settings work when HowFar is installed from the Connect IQ Store.
New in this version
- A fair start. A slow first few hundred metres (a warm-up, a crowded start, a stop) no longer holds the prediction down for kilometres: on a test run, 1.5 km in, it said 39 minutes to go instead of 60, against 42 real.
- Stops leave no trace, even a short one to read the watch: the time you stand still isn't counted, and the prediction doesn't jump when you set off again.
- Turn directions are ignored when you've pasted the course profile: HowFar counts down only to the profile's points, even if the watch announces turns. Without the profile it can't tell a turn from a checkpoint, so turn off turn guidance for the course.
- Shortcuts: after cutting part of the course, HowFar starts over measuring how your distance compares with the course's, instead of staying 15% off.
- Easier to read: the checkpoint's name and the lines around it are bigger, the big number a little smaller; a line that doesn't fit drops to a smaller font instead of cutting the name.
- Tested on six races and 129 training runs: average error 3.81 → 3.63 min on the races, 4.45 → 4.14 on the runs, and about a fifth less in the first 45 minutes.
Race prep page: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/prepare.html
HowFar 0.3.0
HowFar, a free Garmin data field that shows the time to the next checkpoint of your course, learned from how you climb and descend.
Which file do I need? Pick the one for your watch:
| Watch | File |
|---|---|
| Enduro 3 | HowFar-enduro3.prg |
| fēnix 8 43 mm | HowFar-fenix843mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 47 mm | HowFar-fenix847mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 47 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar47mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 51 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar51mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 42 mm | HowFar-epix2pro42mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 47 mm | HowFar-epix2pro47mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 51 mm | HowFar-epix2pro51mm.prg |
How to install: connect the watch with its cable, open the GARMIN → Apps folder (on a Mac, with the free app OpenMTP) and copy the file there. If you have an older HowFar file there, replace it. Step by step: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/#install
Copied this way, HowFar has no settings, so the course profile can't be pasted. It works fully otherwise; the settings work when HowFar is installed from the Connect IQ Store.
New in this version
- Main and minor points. The big number counts down to main checkpoints. Minor points, like a col or a hut you added on the race prep page, are shown on the way with their time from now. You choose which is which on the race prep page.
- On a full screen, the points around the checkpoint, in the order you'll reach them: minor points above the name, as many as fit (the last one counts any further ones, as in Lac du Fond in 1:05 (+2)), and the next main checkpoints below the number, each with its leg's moving time (then Valgrisenche +1:25). The arrival time sits beside the number.
- On a smaller field, like half the screen, just the countdown: the checkpoint, the time and the arrival. Put HowFar on two data screens to have both.
- A coloured dot beside each time shows how far off it may be: green with less than 45 minutes to go (usually within 5 minutes), yellow up to 2 hours (usually within 15), red beyond.
- Times rounded to what can really be known: to 30 minutes beyond four hours, 15 beyond two, 5 beyond one.
- Learning on the run only. The setting for a pace from past races is gone: in tests it helped little and sometimes hurt. HowFar learns within the first few kilometres, fills in slopes you haven't run yet today from the nearest ones, and what it remembers from earlier runs counts less and less as the race goes on.
- The field's words in Italian, French and German, following the watch's language.
Race prep page: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/prepare.html
HowFar 0.2.0
HowFar, a free Garmin data field that shows the time to the next checkpoint of your course, learned from how you climb and descend.
Which file do I need? Pick the one for your watch:
| Watch | File |
|---|---|
| Enduro 3 | HowFar-enduro3.prg |
| fēnix 8 43 mm | HowFar-fenix843mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 47 mm | HowFar-fenix847mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 47 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar47mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 51 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar51mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 42 mm | HowFar-epix2pro42mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 47 mm | HowFar-epix2pro47mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 51 mm | HowFar-epix2pro51mm.prg |
How to install: connect the watch with its cable, open the GARMIN → Apps folder (on a Mac, with the free app OpenMTP) and copy the file there. Step by step: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/#install
Copied this way, the optional settings (your pace from past races and the course profile) can't be pasted; they work when HowFar is installed from the Connect IQ Store.
New in this version
- Counts down to points you add on the race prep page (tops and bottoms of climbs, huts and villages), not only to the checkpoints in the watch's course.
- Works when the watch's course and the course profile list different checkpoints, or are slightly different versions of the course.
- On full-screen fields, a fourth line: the checkpoint after the next and when you'll get there.
- The time is shown only as precisely as it's known: hours and minutes in 5-minute steps from an hour out, whole minutes from 5 minutes out, minutes and seconds at the end. Grey digits and "(learning)" for the first ~4 km.
- New name in text: HowFar.
Race prep page: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/prepare.html
HowFar? 0.1.0 beta
First beta of HowFar?, a free data field that shows the time to the next checkpoint of your course, learned from how you climb and descend.
Which file do I need? Pick the one for your watch:
| Watch | File |
|---|---|
| Enduro 3 | HowFar-enduro3.prg |
| fēnix 8 43 mm | HowFar-fenix843mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 47 mm | HowFar-fenix847mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 47 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar47mm.prg |
| fēnix 8 Solar 51 mm | HowFar-fenix8solar51mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 42 mm | HowFar-epix2pro42mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 47 mm | HowFar-epix2pro47mm.prg |
| epix Pro (Gen 2) 51 mm | HowFar-epix2pro51mm.prg |
How to install: connect the watch with its cable, open the GARMIN → Apps folder (on a Mac, with the free app OpenMTP) and copy the file there. Step-by-step instructions with pictures of every option: https://howfar-garmin.github.io/howfar/#install
Copied this way, the optional settings (your pace from past races and the course profile) can't be pasted. They will work once HowFar? is in the Connect IQ Store.
What's in this version
- Next checkpoint, time to get there and arrival time
- Learns your pace on every slope during the race
- Optional speed model from past races and course profile with every climb and descent
- Corrections for today's form, recent fatigue and the extra distance your watch measures
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