Karoo FINALLY Gets Essential Missing Feature – Wahoo? Your turn

The daily ( 😉 ) feature update to Karoo is with us again. I’ve been looking at some of GPLAMA’s content recently and I know Shane will like the first of the new features where the type of cycling is saved into the FIT file so that the sub-sport is correctly registered when the data is syndicated to other sports platforms. That one’s a ‘meh’ to me, but we’re all different.

My favourite one today is the seemingly obvious change when using the lap button during a structured workout. LAP now advances you on to the next section of the workout. C’mon Wahoo, you need to do the same. Caveats:

• This feature needs a ‘lap undo’, similar to what Garmin recently introduced. eg you can press the LAP button again within, say, 10 seconds to revert to the previous step or to repeat the previous step
• Platforms like Training Peaks allow the workout step to be configured to only respond to a lap press. Support for this behaviour is probably provided here but this is needed if not.

More: Hammerhead

• Introducing the ability to set “Ride Type” to your Karoo ride profiles and have them automatically uploaded to applicable third parties. You can now save the following “Ride Types” Road, Gravel, Mountain Bike, E-Bike, E-Mountain Bike and Velomobile. Learn more here.
  • You can also now assign “Ride Tags” after you end your ride. Tag your ride as commute, indoor, race and workout to easily upload to third parties.
  • Your default bike and ride type on Karoo must match that on third party Bike profile.
• We added additional workout details on Karoo. You can now view all your workout intervals pre-ride.
• We improved the way you delete a ride during the post-ride review on Karoo. To delete a ride, scroll down to the ‘Manage Ride’ section and click ‘Delete’. Learn more here.
• We made changes to the lap button when you are following a workout. Now when you follow a workout, your lap button will turn into a ‘Skip’ button to advance you to the next interval.
• We now store your key button icon preference to your Hammerhead profile. These changes will be applied automatically after you get a new Karoo or perform a factory reset.