Please, please have a quick scan through the many thousands of posts that can easily be found in numerous threads in this forum where this very subject has been discussed to death.
And to simply answer your questions: Yes, most probably. No it is not just about log size -although the log size will of course be generally bigger.
Now off you go and have a read of some of the hundreds and thousands, maybe even millions perhaps, posts that will provide answers to all your question.
yes there are many discussion about this topic, but from my understanding 1s recording will not consume more battery..as far as I know the watch will sample the data every second independant from the setting. If you choose intelligent the watch will just save the points where direction and or speed has changed and will ignore the points with no change so the file will be smaller
Please, please have a quick scan through the many thousands of posts that can easily be found in numerous threads in this forum where this very subject has been discussed to death.
And to simply answer your questions:
Yes, most probably.
No it is not just about log size -although the log size will of course be generally bigger.
Now off you go and have a read of some of the hundreds and thousands, maybe even millions perhaps, posts that will provide answers to all your question.
Strava does things a bit different to Garmin with calculations anyhow so the extra data points will have an effect, affecting the outcome at least within Strava..
As anyone who has taken the time to read some of the many posts on this subject will be aware, apart from possibly battery life and file length changes, the main difference between 1s and smart recording is only the number of trackpoints saved. Data is still recorded at 1s intervals. With smart recording points are discarded of there is no change between some metrics whereas 1s retains all data points that are recorded.
