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Number of steps within running activity?!
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With the former design of Garmin Connect I could design my activities page to show me how many steps I did on my run. It seems the steps field cannot be added anymore, or am I missing something?!
Wow, you're right... So, I guess that's the "old" view?! I wonder, why they didn't add steps to the current activities table?! Guess I'm the only one using it... Thx
Not at all. You're just a little late to the party. This came up often a few months ago. That's how I learned about it. The only question is whether Garmin will kill this at some point.
I really hope they don't kill this, I'm a data geek and have a spreadsheet with my walks details, this must include steps. I think it's crazy that STEPS isn't included in walks and runs... Surely this is a major metric???
I cannot imagine why the number of steps on a run would be considered a major metric in its own right, except if and where it is required to calculate average cadence and stride length. If anything, it is only useful to know because the user wants to know how many steps were taken during the day outside of the timed runs, and therefore want to exclude the steps recorded during a run from the daily total.
I would like to know because I have a feeling that if you use poles during a run then your step count is down by about 25%!
There are also lots of step competitions now so it would be useful to know how far one needs to run to get the required number of steps.
There must be hundreds of reasons why Garmin should include Step Count as a running metric but most importantly if I can have a data screen showing the number of steps on my watch then it should be in the Activity report as well!
As a developer I totally understand this and your instructions were excellent.
...although as a developer I don't understand why Garmin aren't showing that stat when it's in the file ready to be used!
Interestingly, Garmin has 13736 and STEPS TO FIT has 12,933. I imagine the difference was when the activity was paused, STEPS to FIT stopped counting while Garmin carried on.
I was going to uninstall STEPS TO FIT but now I might just use both until I decide that one is more preferable to the other!
