EDGE 1040 Owner’s Manual

Updating Your Activity Profile

You can customize ten activity profiles. You can customize your settings and data fields for a particular activity or trip.

TIP: You can also customize the activity profiles from the device settings in the Garmin Connect app.

  1. Select > Activity Profiles.
  2. Select an option:
    • Select a profile.
    • Select Create New to add or copy a profile.
  3. If necessary, select to edit the name, color, and default ride type for the profile.

TIP: After a ride that is not typical, you can manually update the ride type. Accurate ride type data is important for creating bike friendly courses.

  1. Select an option:
    • Select Data Screens to customize the data screens and data fields (Adding a Data Screen).
    • Select Segments to turn on your enabled segments (Enabling Segments).
    • Select Climbs > ClimbPro to enable the ClimbPro feature (Using ClimbPro).
    • Select Climbs > Climb Detection to customize which types of climbs the device detects.
    • Select Alerts and Prompts to customize your training alerts (Alerts).
    • Select Alerts and Prompts > Sharp Bend Warnings to enable navigation warning messages for difficult turns.
    • Select Alerts and Prompts > Workout Target Alerts to enable workout target alerts.
    • Select Alerts and Prompts > Lap to set how laps are triggered (Marking Laps by Position).
    • Select Timer > Auto Pause to change when the activity timer automatically pauses (Using Auto Pause).
    • Select Timer > Timer Start Mode to customize how the device detects the start of a ride and automatically starts the activity timer (Starting the Timer Automatically).
    • Select Nutrition/Hydration to enable food and drink consumption tracking.
    • Select Self Evaluation to enable self evaluation after workouts or all activities.
    • Select MTB/CX > Grit/Flow/Jump Recording to enable grit, flow, and jump recording.
    • Select Navigation > Map to customize the map settings (Map Settings).
    • Select Navigation > Routing to customize the routing settings (Route Settings).
    • Select Navigation > Navigation Prompts to show navigation messages using a map view or text prompt.
    • Select Satellite Systems to turn off GPS (Training Indoors) or change the satellite setting (Changing the Satellite Setting).
    • Select Auto Sleep to automatically enter sleep mode after five minutes of inactivity (Using Auto Sleep).

All changes are saved to the activity profile.