Planning (Route Builder) on CS is great, but I would like to get a Route created here on CS, over to Garmin. Garmin does support importing, but as far as I can tell, CS does not have a way to export a route.
Were does CS store the route? Can I get it?
Thank you
From: https://connect.garmin.com/app/courses
My profile link :https://citystrides.com/users/14290
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but of course you can. When you create and save a route in CS, there is a button to Download GPX. Then you can import this file to Garmin
Dang Hans, I’ve never noticed that. Maybe because I’m on a PC, and that looks like a phone?
Now I can’t even find the Route I created. It is marked “Public” if you want to see it. It’s called “Big W”
Thank you!
Never mind, finally found it… I had to “view” it after creating it!
Thank you
Let me know if you have any issue with the activity type after using the route in your Garmin device.
We’re having a tough time of it over in First Time Running With A Map - No Bueno - #6 by JamesChevalier where they’re tracking a run … it appears on the device as a run … but then when it gets to Garmin Connect it’s “other” (which is excluded from CityStrides). As far as I can tell from the conversation, this is only happening when they use a route. (@charles_eberhart maybe we’ll learn more from Eric’s experience)
Will do. I plan to run this on 2/20/26, to garner a couple of Garmin challenges.
Course type is running, so fingers crossed.
I do this all the time. Draw the route in CS, download as GPX, import the GPX on the courses page on Garmin Connect website, saved the course, download to your watch in Connect app. I sometimes still get “lost” 
Do you ever have activity categorization issues, like @charles_eberhart has experienced? His activities appear as running on his device, but as “other” after syncing into Garmin Connect.
I think the key thing would be to setup the course as a running one in Garmin Connect and then use Run mode on your Garmin.
@JamesChevalier Just wanted to let you know my FR965 had no problem with the GPX file that CS created. In fact, it worked quite well.
On a side note, I’m quite impressed with Garmin’s navigation. A few times I strayed from the planned RouteBuilder route, because I forgot to add a few streets. I’m still getting used to the Garmin prompts too, as I did not always make the correct turn. But the whole concept worked quite well. Thank you
Also, thank you @hans1 for cluing me on the GPX download. Very cool!
Just in case anyone wants to see my after LifeMap:
As I was finishing up the route, I realized I was close to marathon distance. I was only able to run the early portions of the route, but decided to keep on striding. You can see all my laps in the shopping center where I parked.
I learned a new feature with my watch, thanks to the community. Create the map and export it. Then, select Run on the Watch, not Navigation. When selecting Run, push up for Options, and select the Course. This tracks it as a run!!! Thanks so much everyone.
