This week my Garmin Connect runs are syncing over to Strava with "total time" in Garmin populated as "moving time" in Strava. Normally you would have to mark a run as a Race to have Strava view the time sent from Garmin as both total and moving for the purposes of Avg. Pace for the activity. Does anyone know what changed?
To confuse this even more there is actually is three different times in Garmin Connect (may differ depending on device?); Time, Moving time and Elapsed time:
Elapsed time is the total from from the second you pressed start till the last time you press stop before saving. If you choose to stop the timer and resume later the elapsed time will still count until you resume, stop and save.
Time is the total time while the timer is running (if you stop the timer it will stop counting).
Moving time is the time with an algorithm applied that will subtract time while you are standing still. I don't know how sensitive it is but I often have runs where I know I was running all the time but still Moving Time differs from Time.
Something has changed but I can't really say what it is.
In July I did a run where Time in GC is Moving Time in Strava:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/5264047401
https://www.strava.com/activities/3789264317
In April it was the same, GC Time = Strava Moving Time:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4741106541
https://www.strava.com/activities/3258137411
In May I did one of the few races I've done this year and for a race and I hope GC Elapsed Time is Strava Elapsed Time (for a race Strava labels it Elapsed Time):
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4933650162
https://www.strava.com/activities/3453176762/overview
So far so good and I think that it all makes sense, from my point of view Garmin Moving Time should be ignored since it isn't reliable and for a race it is from start to finnish no matter what you did on the way. But now the interesting! Recently I did a run where none of the Garmin Connect time fields equals Strava:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/5421922704
https://www.strava.com/activities/3948093987
The only difference between that run, and the one in July is that I used a Stryd Foot Pod but that shouldn't impact the timer, only distance and speed.
For me Strava is 90% social, the only analytics I do is to find similar runs easy (View matched runs) and compare them in regards to average HR/pace. I don't really pay much attention to the numbers in Strava and didn't reflect about the time values until you posted your question.
Best regards,
Tobias
