Garmin segments - how to use them?

topcattim

After having my 810 for a year now, yesterday while I was riding, it beeped at me and told me I was approaching a segment; as I rode through it, it compared my time with my apparent previous PB.
Why did it do this for just that particular segment? When I look at my ride on Connect, I rode through another Garmin segment and it gave me no notice of that one. And when I look on the Garmin Connect website, searching the map for those segments, neither are appearing.
Can anyone explain what is happening? I quite like the idea of being able to receive notification of getting close to certain stretches of road that I'd like to target, but I can't work out why it selects some but not others.
Thanks

andy9964

Don't know about Connect, but you can do it with Strava segments.
Tutorial here
http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/use-your-g ... rava-koms/

topcattim

Andy9964 wrote:

Don't know about Connect, but you can do it with Strava segments.
Tutorial here
http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/use-your-g ... rava-koms/

Does that still work now that Raceshape has been absorbed into Strava?

andy9964

I would imagine so. All you're doing is, copying the segment data, and loading it onto your 800/810 as a route

topcattim

Andy9964 wrote:

I would imagine so. All you're doing is, copying the segment data, and loading it onto your 800/810 as a route

thanks, will give that a go.
I'm still interested in knowing how others are using and accessing Garmin segments, and in particular why this one segment was notified to me while I was riding , whereas the others aren't. Perhaps they're just not very widely used by us lot, which is why there's nothing to say here?

special11

I believe (and i may be wrong) that it only announces segments you have starred