Instinct mileage always short of actual mileage

Whenever I do a group run with people that have a different type of Garmin from my Instinct or they have the Apple Watch my mileage always comes up .25 - .35 mi. shorter. The same thing happens in road races  that are wheel measured and certified courses. 

  • trux has a point here. I had factory reset my watch and had forgotten to switch back to 1sec recording and I noticed that many times the track was unreliable and as I had auto pause on the watch "forgot"  to wake up so I had a lot of straight lines. This certainly reduces accuracy.