I’ve got the linked app on my Garmin that gives a countdown until I get a racket to remind me to eat, however it’s got a max of five which limits it use on longer rides.
I love the countdown as it helps tracking food and whether to stuff my face before or after hills.
I can’t find anything similar that has more alerts or just a regular repeated one. I was wondering what other folks use (if anything at all).
My Wahoo Bolt has unlimited notifications based on either Miles, Minutes or Calories Burned. I use it every race for everything from caffeine reminders to key sections of the course. I couldn’t imaging racing without it.
Which Garmin do you have? They have had food reminder options for awhile.
I’ve got a 1040, and the food alerts are set up, it’s specifically the countdown I like on this app.
That way if it shows I’ve got 5 mins until it’s beeps at me and I know I’ve got a hill coming up I eat before, or I see there’s still 50mins before it alerts at the top so eat then. Otherwise I’ve found it alerts at points I can’t eat easily and then I forget.
Essentially I’m trying to counter act my inability to remember to stuff my face when trying hard.
Instead of separate app, use number of calories burned field and eat/drink at every 100th?
At my long chill pace, it makes almost exactly every 10min. That’s why I actually don’t use any counter at all and rely on whole ride timer instead.
This is a great example of how different we all are. I spend my entire ride counting down the minutes until I’m allowed to consume more calories.
Kind of like the posts that say, “how can you consume so many calories in a day?”, when I spend all day hungry and trying not to consume more calories.
Without a timer/alert there could be rides where I’ve eaten everything by the end of the road. Those Styrkr rice bars are amazing!
I think I just my Garmin 530 to set a reminder every 15 minutes. Obviously it doesn’t work perfectly for hills etc but it works. I’m sure it does more than 5?
I use the Garmin alerts in conjunction with the app so if I do ride longer than the apps alerts I still get the Garmin pings.
It’s not a end of the world type issue just thought someone might know of a similar app.
Can you set two alerts on the Garmin to give you some sort of eating window?
Not an alert but I have a data page set up with lap time / speed / power etc and just hit the lap button each time I eat so I can easily see how long and how hard I’ve been going since I last ate
Obviously not helpful if you use the lap function for other things though!