Using custom courses

Custom course workouts are designed to allow hands-free operation when using CrewNerd for head races or any time you want to navigate over a prescribed set of points. In a custom course workout, the timer starts when you cross the designated start line for the chosen course and stops when you cross the finish line.

When you choose a course-style workout, the name of the course will be shown in the title of the Row/Paddle screen. Press the start button when you are ready to begin rowing toward the start line. When you cross the line, the timer will start and the navigation bar will change from yellow to green. When you cross the finish line, the timer will stop.

With the new “waypoints” feature, CrewNerd can even help you navigate from one turn to the next as you move through a course, and tell you how far you are from the next turn (or the finish).

You create custom workouts using the Google Earth app on your desktop computer to name your course and draw the start line, finish line, and waypoints (if needed). You then export a KML file from Google Earth containing your course(s), and import it into CrewNerd on your phone. Your courses will then appear in the list of custom courses on the workouts page. A separate article describes this process in detail.