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Meaning of the "faster" and "slower" indication on the map of a completed run?

3340322
over 4 years ago

Hello,

I have tried to find the answer online but wasn't successful: Can anyone tell me what it means when you look at a completed run on Garmin Connect and you first see where you ran with a colored line of various shades. Below the map it say "faster = red" and "slower = blue". My question is: Faster or slower than what?

It's driving me nuts :) Thanks for any info!

Camilla

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  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 3340322

    It's not comparing to speeds from previous activities.  Its comparing it to the whole range of speeds through out the entire current activity.  it doesn't make sense to me.  The only method that makes sense is taking the average and showing at this point in the activity you were faster or slower that the average of that activity.  

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Karchner14

    Yeah - gotcha now - like "here you were so super slow/fast compared to the rest of the ride/run" when maybe on that day there was a red light I saw from afar or whatnot. I think this view is for "consistency" of the run - which is useful if you run on flat terrain.  I like the map view though because you can see it all at once as opposed to the detail charts where you go with the mouse to see at what point my form dropped or where the hill came :) Thanks, cheers!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    If you run or ride twice around a course is the coloured faster/slower map identifying where you picked up pace or slowed down compared to your first lap?    And if you’ve done the same route before does the software make its comparison and show faster or slower with respects to all the previous times you’ve been around the course?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to PhilipAHiggs
    PhilipAHiggs said:
    If you run or ride twice around a course is the coloured faster/slower map identifying where you picked up pace or slowed down compared to your first lap?    And if you’ve done the same route before does the software make its comparison and show faster or slower with respects to all the previous times you’ve been around the course?

    The algorithm simply takes the data of the current activity, finds the maximal, and the minimal values, enters them as the scale limits for the coloring, and that's all. The color of all the other values is interpolated between the min/max values of given activity.

    If you want to see the coloring for a single lap only (or any other section), trim the activity, review it, and then revert the trimming (you can repeat the trimming as much as you want - it is reversible).

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to trux

    I had negative splits for my whole run. All blue Shrug tone1‍

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 7809026

    Should at least be different shades of blue from dark to light blue, depending on pace.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I just can have the colour map pace map in the run activity and not in SUP activity, does anyone knows why???

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to didineves
    didineves said:
    does anyone knows why???

    The pace/hr/elevation color layers are available to selected activity types only. Why exactly, nobody will tell you here. But if you want to see the colors on the map of a SUP activity, you can temporarily change the activity type for example to Walk.