How to navigate your run

Problem we’re trying to solve – help you navigate the course

So the course has been published on Facebook and TeamApp as a MapMyRun or Strava link but you don’t know how to use these published courses to navigate yourself around the course – or find your way back if you get lost!  This tutorial is designed to equip you with the skills you need to navigate your way around any run.

What do you need to navigate the course?

Navigating a course is as simple as one or more of the following:

  • Take your phone with you (which you should do anyway!) and access the map in TeamApp via MapMyRun or Strava (preferred).Strava also gives you a little blue dot showing your current location.
  • (Preferred) load the course onto your GPS enabled watch (Suunto, Garmin, Coros, etc.) and select to navigate the course when you start the run!

Both of these will work, obviously if the map is on your watch, you don’t need to keep getting your phone out to find out which way to go.

Navigating using your phone

To navigate using your phone, follow these steps

  1. Open up TeamApp and go to the event or training run you’re currently doing.
  2. Scroll down to find the MapMyRun and Strava course links.
  3. If you click on the MapMyRun this will open a web browser on your phone with the course.
  4. If you have the Strava app installed on your phone and you click on the Strava link it will open the Strava app with the course – and a blue dot showing your current location! 
    1. You shouldn’t need a Strava account, just have the Strava app installed on your phone.

Loading the course and navigating using your GPS watch

To navigate using your watch, you need to have the course loaded on  your watch (the process to do this differs by brands) and select the course for your run when you start. The following sections outline the steps for the common GPS watch brands.

Suunto watches

You can load a route onto a Suunto watch using a variety of approaches.  Suunto uses the Suunto app on your phone to load and sync routes (courses) so you need to have the Suunto App installed (which you will have anyways). The following are the three most common methods.

  1. Importing the course – save the GPX file locally on your phone and import the GPX file into the Suunto App.    Detailed instructions from Suunto here: https://www.suunto.com/en-au/Support/faq-articles/suunto-app/how-do-i-import-a-.gpx-file-in-suunto-app-for-ios/
  2. Create the course in Suunto app – use the Suunto app to create the course manually. More details on how to do this on the Suunto web site – https://www.suunto.com/en-au/Support/faq-articles/suunto-app/how-do-i-create-a-route-in-suunto-app-for-ios/
  3. Sync the course from your Strava account – Suunto now has the ability to sync Strava routes to the Suunto app.  Create or import the Strava route into your Strava account which will then sync with your Suunto App. More details here: https://www.suunto.com/en-au/sports/News-Articles-container-page/how-to-sync-strava-routes-with-suunto-gps-watches/

Once you have the route in the Suunto App, you need to sync by selecting “Use in Watch” in the course section of the Suunto App.  More details here: https://www.suunto.com/en-au/Support/faq-articles/suunto-app/how-do-i-use-maps-and-routes-with-the-suunto-app/

Garmin watches

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Coros watches

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Apple watches

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