Cycling really can get you to places in the neighborhood you haven't visited before. I've already experienced that and I don't even go off road.
Nice to see you're happy with your Garmin.
What also is a nice feature to enable is the Incident detection (https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-E67DE53E-5B08-4903-9767-F58973BC1829/EN-US/GUID-F109FB24-B55D-49D2-B388-D042E7FBA965.html). This will send a message to a contact you select. When the garmin detects a crash, it will send a message to that contact containing your location. You have 30 seconds to disable the sending of the notification.
I had a light crash recently and saw a message popup on my Garmin it was about to send a message to my wife. Since I was OK, I could cancel it, but when you have a bad crash (especially when you go off road) it might be useful to configure this.
Cool to see you enjoy your new hobby!
To come back on the Decathlon points, I can confirm it works 🙂 easy €10 yearly!
I've connected both Garmin and Strava to my Decathlon account, something else I discovered that at both Strava and Garmin in settings - privacy you can make an invisible bubble around the area where you live to automatically hide your start and end point when it's near your house.
Cool!
I was looking for it in my Strava app, but I now read it's done in your Decathlon account.
Found it!
Thanks!
Yes I already activated it, it was the function my wife was the most happy with 😊