What are the differences between Total/Moving/Elapsed times. Case study: I start the running activity, I run, I stop moving and in the same time or almost the same time, I stop the activity by pressing the button on my watch.
In your case all three values should be the same or at least pretty close. Here goes: Elapsed time is time from start of your activity to the end of it. Total time is elapsed time but excluding periods when you stopped the timer mid-activity. Moving time is total time excluding periods when you were stationary.
Example: 1. You start the timer and start running. 2. After 5 minutes you stop the timer. 3. After 2 minutes you restart the timer but do not start running. 4. After 5 minutes you stop the timer. Total time will be 10 minutes, elapsed time will be 12 minutes, moving time will be 5 minutes.
One thing which puzzles me: In every (auto) lap of my runs, Garmin Connect shows a few seconds of non-moving time, even though I run at steady pace with a foot pod, and the pace curve shows no decreases in pace.
I cannot find moving time on my Fenix 5X on latest software version. This is ridiculous.
I drive Jetski and motor bikes where I don't have time or a third hand to interact with the watch.
I want to find out how much time I have spent from origin to destination. Also total time of moving so I can make comparisons. I don't want to use auto pause because boats drift at sea. The lap time get messed up with auto pause.
I can't find a moving time data field from app store also.
One thing which puzzles me: In every (auto) lap of my runs, Garmin Connect shows a few seconds of non-moving time, even though I run at steady pace with a foot pod, and the pace curve shows no decreases in pace.
Anyone else see this?
it incorrectly truncates the seconds instead of rounding them for all laps, so depending on number of laps the non-moving time can be significant even if it is non-existant. If someone at garmin did care about there complete solution if would have been fixed a long time ago.
I cannot find moving time on my Fenix 5X on latest software version. This is ridiculous.
I drive Jetski and motor bikes where I don't have time or a third hand to interact with the watch.
I want to find out how much time I have spent from origin to destination. Also total time of moving so I can make comparisons. I don't want to use auto pause because boats drift at sea. The lap time get messed up with auto pause.
I can't find a moving time data field from app store also.
Garmin better fix this.
The Timer field and Elapsed Time fields would seem to meet your needs. Although the watch isn't going to be able to tell the difference between deliberate slow movement and just drifting with the current.
If you can't take your hands off the jetski controls, then autoscroll might be one way of displaying additional fields.
Although if you are drifting, presumably then you are able to take your hands off and press the Pause button.
I've looked hard and found some HR bundles with Fenix watches, but didn't realize they had a Sense of Entitlement bundle as well.
The Timer field and Elapsed Time fields would seem to meet your needs. Although the watch isn't going to be able to tell the difference between deliberate slow movement and just drifting with the current.
If you can't take your hands off the jetski controls, then autoscroll might be one way of displaying additional fields.
Although if you are drifting, presumably then you are able to take your hands off and press the Pause button.
I've looked hard and found some HR bundles with Fenix watches, but didn't realize they had a Sense of Entitlement bundle as well.
Let me put it in a very simple way.
Say I go to a hiking trail. I finished it in 10 hours. I had 2 resting stops and some photo stops. The watch should tell me the timer/elapsed time is 10 hours because I have never paused the activity. So I would be curious what my moving time is. Say it could be 8.5 hours. So before my next hike, I can expect to finish in 10 hrs if I spend 1.5 hours to rest/chill. If I want to finish it asap I would need to cut down the non moving time so I might finish it in 9 hours or so.
The moving time is VERY VALUABLE to many kinds of sports and is not replaceable with auto pause/elapsed timed/lap timers! I am not doing track running so I would pause activity every few lap! This is a deal breaker!
Since we are keeping things simple, the Timer field shows moving time. The Elapsed Time field shows total time. 8.5 hours and 10 hours respectively in your example above.
You can eliminate non-moving time from the timer field through auto-pause. Or you can disable autopause, and pause the watch manually with the Start/Stop button if you prefer. Using the lap timer does not pause the Timer field, and I agree, would not be very useful in your hiking scenario.
The watch actually does provide the information you say you want, and I would encourage you to experiment with these fields yourself.
