Running indoors - is performance data and V02 still gathered ?

I run outside in an urban area where the GPS is too inaccurate to make it useful for data gathering. If it consistently measured the same bad distance I could at least use that for comparitive performance measurement but I can see variations of up to 30% in distance on the same 10K run which swamps any minor changes in performance . Ive seen +6 followed by -9 if i run clockwise followed by anti clockwise.

If i turn the GPS off is there still a way to gather performance data and V02 data by manually entering the distance ? I assume people on running machines are doing this. Is it effective and what is the method ?

Thanks

0 nedberg over 8 years ago

No

VO2Max needs GPS-data to be calculated. I have no progress during the winter here in Norway since I mostly run indoors

0 cdxp over 8 years ago

Ive been using the treadmill setting anyway with decent results that i was going to move it outside. I tried on a treadmill and they were close enough that i didnt need to adjust the numbers in Garmin connect.
However last night (29 June) the APAC version got the 3.41 update which basically destroyed the accuracy of a treadmill run today turning a 7K run into 10K.
I see that the 3.412 beta offers a solution for this but I dont have access to it. What i genuinely cant understand is why the APAC support team would push the button on a known defective release 20 days after release in other markets which presumably confirmed the problem. The response was quick enough that they got a patch out for it on the 21st June to Beta users , a week before the the broken release rolled out to Asia. This is very basic stuff - steps. And basic support suggesting serious communication problems between the support teams.

0 kaz911 over 8 years ago

It is only because Garmin has not implemented the full version of the algorithms. The full version of FirstBeat supports collection from other speedsources than GPS. Garmin just only support their way off GPS measurement.

I hope the new Treadmill calibration routine is the start of Garmin implementing the full FirstBeat protocols for VO2 and other performance calculations.

https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/vo2max-fitness-level/