I’ve got a big run coming up, and I want to be prepared, so I created a GPX file to load onto my watch so that I can follow a little red line across the Yorkshire Dales.A little red line alone is a big help, but a bigger help would be to have the checkpoints on the watch as well, so that when it’s been dark for hours and I’m stumbling through peat hags, I can know that I’m only 2 km away from Capplestone Gate. Or whatever.The problem is that manually adding checkpoints to a GPX file is a tedious prospect in Garmin Connect. The solution is that I have a monthly subscription to the Do Tedious Things For Me robot.Claude Code made short work of the GPX file: I pasted in a screenshot from the event handbook listing the OS grid references for each of the checkpoints, and it parsed those checkpoints first into a CSV and then interpolated them into the GPX file itself. Names and lng/lats, and, with a little further prompting, elevations for each of the waypoints.I uploaded this file to Garmin…
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