Run Map Failure!

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hey all,

Yesterday I ran on a proper track. Attaching a map of my run. Although I only did rounds on the track, the map shows straight lines in the grass area. I never stepped out of the track and didn’t get into the grass area even once.
Why does my Garmin think I ran in a place I wasn’t? So should I consider all the running date is incorrect, because it counted incorrect distance?
I am very frustrated, this is the most basic function of this watch and cant it calculate it correctly?

Fenix 5S
Thank you
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0 erhancetin over 7 years ago

Did you press stop button while on training ?

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Did you press stop button while on training ?

Erhan selam,

It was a time based interval training, so I pressed 'pause' button in between them. But didn't press stop button until the end of the training.

0 mcalista over 7 years ago

I'm not sure if this is the cause of the mapping issue or not , but if you are doing time-based intervals, you may do better by designing a Workout on Garmin Connect with running and recovery intervals built in - that way you don't have press pause each time. If you turn off autolap, you can then analyze each interval as a "lap".

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I'm not sure if this is the cause of the mapping issue or not , but if you are doing time-based intervals, you may do better by designing a Workout on Garmin Connect with running and recovery intervals built in - that way you don't have press pause each time. If you turn off autolap, you can then analyze each interval as a "lap".

Thank you for your answer.

However, I am not running alone. It is a group exercise and we are under the directives of a coach. We start and stop with his whistle. So I never have a definite idea of the times we run or stop; therefore cannot design a workout for the trainings. I press pause each time we stop.
What is your opinion on this?

0 Mathias.Bjorklund over 7 years ago

If you press pause, you tell the watch to stop recording data points, which means that when you later look at it on a map it is shown as a straight line from the point where you pressed pause until you pressed start again.

The best way is to disable auto-laps on that specific activitiy type, an when the coach whistle, you press lap instead of press pause. You will then also record your resting times which is crucial for evaluating and comparing your results the next time you do a similar training.
If you know the times you should be active but not the resting time you can create a workout that has the time programmed, but the rest is set to "lap press".

The only drawback I know of is that Garmin Connect doesn't show the diagrams with a good Y scaling and it is not possible to change. Luckily there exist other places to look and evaluate a interval training instead.

0 erhancetin over 7 years ago

The best way is to disable auto-laps on that specific activitiy type, an when the coach whistle, you press lap instead of press pause.

I agree, that's the best solution.

0 mcalista over 7 years ago

Thank you for your answer.

However, I am not running alone. It is a group exercise and we are under the directives of a coach. We start and stop with his whistle. So I never have a definite idea of the times we run or stop; therefore cannot design a workout for the trainings. I press pause each time we stop.
What is your opinion on this?

I agree with Mathias's suggestion - turn off Autolap, and press the Lap button with each whistle.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

If you press pause, you tell the watch to stop recording data points, which means that when you later look at it on a map it is shown as a straight line from the point where you pressed pause until you pressed start again.

The best way is to disable auto-laps on that specific activitiy type, an when the coach whistle, you press lap instead of press pause. You will then also record your resting times which is crucial for evaluating and comparing your results the next time you do a similar training.
If you know the times you should be active but not the resting time you can create a workout that has the time programmed, but the rest is set to "lap press".

The only drawback I know of is that Garmin Connect doesn't show the diagrams with a good Y scaling and it is not possible to change. Luckily there exist other places to look and evaluate a interval training instead.

Thank you Mathias for your great answer and your help! Very much appreciated.