Fenix 6X Pro - whats wrong with pace and gps track?

Former Member
Former Member

I have bought the Garmin Fenix 6X Pro for running, cycling, hiking and as a fitness tracker. I like it very much. But one reason i bought this watch is to see at what pace i am running. My old Garmin showed it very good, my iphone shows it quite good too. But the Fenix is absolutly wrong. it shows i run at 7.30min / km while I know i am running a lot faster (just an example). 

Thats what my GPS track looks like:

Is the watch broken? What can i do? 

  • I am having same problem pace is not working right

  • Why doesn't Garmin make a statement about this? I have the same problem, and this is 7 months after this topic was written.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Same issue here as well. I just upgraded from a Fitbit Ionic to the Fenix 6 Pro primarily for the battery life and added map / course routing functionality. I thought at a minimum the pace, GPS, and related function's would be on par if not better however I find that the pace takes a good 10-15 seconds to catch up where as the Fitbit seemed to adjust instantly.

  • Just to follow up, I sent this watch back... Ran with a FR 945 in parallel 10 more runs, and the Fenix 6 pro was always 3-6% off the distance / pace of the Forerunner 945.

  • After the switch from Suunto 9 to F6X I suffer an issue with useless momentary pace. The track quality is also less accurate. I observe this on each version of firmware released for two months I've got the watch.

  • After the switch from Suunto 9 to F6X I suffer an issue with useless momentary peace. The track quality is also less accurate. I observe this on each version of firmware released for two months I've got the watch.

  • I am one more person with the same terrible annoying problem and i have this watch 3 months now. The gps is not so terrible(maybe not the most accurate), av.pace is somehow correct -  i believe - but the pace is insanely inaccurate. I can't understand how the av.pace is accurate and the pace is extremely inaccurate, it doens't make any sense. For example i run 1km and the watch shows me 5.30 av.pace which i believe it is correct, but during this km the pace indication was from 6.50 to 7.00+(most of the time) even 8.00 some times. From the other hand with cycling i don't have any problem or inaccurate measurements. The most annoying thing is that Garmin doesn't give a s... so far, some kind of announcement - a responible answer. What a shame....

  • Same here! I have Fenix 6X for a month and set up Garmin coach 5k training. One workout was run in pace 7:55-8:33, but when I started to run at desired pace, F6X shows pace 2-3min/km more than I run. While I ran all workout in same cadence, I see several drops in pace. It is useless to have such watches, which tells you to keep some pace, but they can't measure it live. Average pace was better - in tolerance. And even more, no training status was calculated due to pace drops. 

    From TOP model of sport watches with premium price, I expect 100% working base functionality, like pace, GPS tracking,... I don't need to buy $850 watches which gives wrong data, for that is better refund Garmin and use phone with Strava tracking which works 100%.  And what piss me off  most, is Garmin ignorance. Time for users to say goodbye to Garmin, maybe then will act and fix bugs. I recommend all friends and community to read this before buying Garmin watches, then chose to better quality watches from competitor.

  • Exact same problem. It was so freaking frustrating spending 700 on a piece of hardware that does not work at doing the simplest math averaging on a rolling window of samples. 
    it is so frustrating I spent 10 hours minimum doing video demos demonstrating the problem to Garmin Iberia support. I called, I mailed, I went to the shop. This is a freaking SCAM. A 130€ suunto or a 60€ android smartphone does a better job. 

    I tested under so many circumstances and it is so freaking random.

    Today I ran a wide and straight city avenue at 4:30 min/km. The watch showed a pace between 5:50 and 7:30 all the way. Until LAP was triggered and then I could see the pace was actually 4:30 (on lap). 

    Shame on you Garmin. This is not a product you can sell.