Quick Tips: New Adventure Race Mode - An Explainer

While scanning through the list of beta firmware updates that posted this week, I noticed a curious addition – a new ‘Adventure Race’ activity profile designed for races that prohibit GPS navigation during the race. Meaning that some races require competitors to do their own orienteering, old-school style with maps and compass, rather than depend on GPS devices.

But of course these athletes still want to record their race for posterity sake (because…Strava), but don’t want to run afoul of rules that limit navigational assistance. Many of these races/rules do allow GPS devices that can record only, but not do any navigation. Thus up till now, people have largely had to use less capable and more basic GPS watches that often don’t have the battery life capabilities of Garmin’s higher end models.

So, the feature is currently posted in public beta for the Garmin Fenix 6 Series (all editions), MARQ Series, and Enduro. That’s part of the larger beta firmware update set, so you’re actually getting a boatload of other new features that Garmin has been adding to those watches in beta the last few months, but hasn’t yet toggled over to production for these watches (but have on other watches).

Here’s the links to the beta updates and how to download/etc: https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/fenix-6-series/270536/fenix-6-series---18-77-public-beta

0:00 Purpose in life
1:27 Loud Quacking Duck
1:54 Hands-on Overview
5:15 Some final thoughts

---

The Site ► http://www.dcrainmaker.com
Main Camera ► https://amzn.to/2EWbhMA
Action Cam ► https://amzn.to/3iEb42R
All Camera Gear ► http://dcra.in/DCRCamera
Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dcrainmaker
Facebook ► https://facebook.com/dcrainmaker
Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dcrainmakerblog
Strava ► https://www.strava.com/athletes/dcrainmaker
Most Music ► https://player.epidemicsound.com/#/

#AdventureRacing #GarminFenix6 #GarminEnduro