Pace accuracy

Former Member over 8 years ago

I just spent some time reading through (some) of the 55 page "GPS Accuracy" thread. Some of what I'm experiencing is touched on there, but I'm much more concerned about the pace problems I'm having with my F5 than laser-perfect distance accuracy. Specifically, I've noticed that my pace is all over the place during a run, even when I know I'm holding a very steady one. For example, here is the pace data from today's run:

I can understand some minor deviations, but when I'm running for several miles at what I know to be a sub-7 pace and look down at my watch and see "8:40", that's pretty darn frustrating.

Here's what the exact same run looked like two weeks ago with my old FR220:

Totally difference experience. What gives? Do I need to change the GPS settings on the F5 to something other than what comes default?

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Forerunner 935 so far after 3 weeks is excellent, I ran my 1st half marathon with it on Nov 12th and it tracked as expected!
No crazy pace fluctuations either, elevation was good as well...very happy so far. :o
I also like how it fits and its much lighter, too bad it doesn't come with sapphire glass...

I probably should have bought that instead, I've given up on the F5 for running, the gps is so bad my route is all over the place so any sort of pacing is completely off.

0 chatlow over 7 years ago

Hmm, the only issue I have found is the pace is sometimes off around trees and buildings which I expect anyway but in general it's good and the total distance is almost always bang on for me, so GPS on the whole seems okay and I'm not using Glonass - also proved better than Strava on my Samsung mobile the other day.

Wish I could say the same for the OHR sensor as it's a POS and find it randomly getting stuck at 30-40 bpm higher than it should be before eventually catching up and coming down again.

0 Ante over 7 years ago

try DozenRun

Is there a data field for 30sec pace? Dozen run isbro small and buzzy face for me. I like two fields per screen.

0 Crispin_Ellisdon over 7 years ago

It seems this data field never got updated for CIQ 2 watches, otherwise it’s what you are after https://apps.garmin.com/en-NZ/apps/2a4cae65-1a2b-4fd2-b1a1-dea6100702bf Maybe contact the developer and see if they will update it?

0 Ante over 7 years ago

It seems this data field never got updated for CIQ 2 watches, otherwise it’s what you are after https://apps.garmin.com/en-NZ/apps/2a4cae65-1a2b-4fd2-b1a1-dea6100702bf Maybe contact the developer and see if they will update it?

Kind of strange, if pace accuracy is so bad, why haven't a configurable data field been developed to smooth out pace?