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Walking Features

Former Member over 6 years ago

Why can't the Walking stats include the same stats as Running - such as VO2 and Cadence....??

Also, the Personal Records section should also contain walking.

I have a coronary heart disease and have had 6 stents inserted, but I also do long distance walking, trekking, hiking - these additional stats would be VERY useful.

0 JSRUNNER_ over 6 years ago

SBullough why don't you just record your walks/hikes as a running activity. There is a similar problem with Trail running - it doesn't give you VO2 max - because of that I record all my runs under the standard run activity.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to JSRUNNER_

Hi, I found this thread and as I have similar problems with my fenix 5S, I'm writing here.

Probaly someone has additional information or (hopefully) Garmin will make a modification for calculating.

Past months, I used a "Walking" activity of my fenix, made some modifications inside the activity and used it for "Hiking". VO2 max had been calculated and became better and better. So far so good...

But, after having made a connection to komoot, I noticed, that these activities are imported in komoot as activity "Nordic-Walking". I don't like it. Thats why, I took a "Hiking" activity of my fenix and modified for my personal interests. Now, these activities are imported correctly to komoot as "Hiking". Very good.

BUT: Now, VO2 max hasn't been calculated since this modification.

Why can't Garmin calculate VO2 max also in "Hiking". I can't understand... HR+Distance+Elevation and other values are cumulated exactly identically...

It maked no sense to go back to a walking activity, as I always have to swich in komoot manually.