Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Try what you did, touch part of the map, let it generate a route for you. If it's not the way you want to go, just start riding the one you prefer. Your Garmin will re-route when it realizes you're not doing the one it calculated. It will keep re-routing, so eventually it should give you an acceptable route from where you are at the time to where you want to be.
What do you mean by let it generate a route? As in set a waypoint for the finish destination (say, that 20, 30, 40 mile distance)? Or set a waypoint along the route to it at a shorter increment - like 1 waypoint at a time instead of trying to put them all (maybe 25-30 waypoints) in 1 route plan?
I tried the latter on a ride today just for a 3/4 mile test (25 mile ride total) and it seemed to work OK but I didn't get too ambitious with it. I just didn't want to mess with it much - was racing the clock too.