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Personal records show activity time instead of actual record time

1770932
over 3 years ago

Hi,

I have several personal records where the time shown is the activity time, and not the actual time taken for that record.
For example, my 5km record is showing the total activity time of my 5.06km activity, not the time it took me to run 5km.
For my 10km record, it is showing the time of my 10.03km activity instead of the time it has taken me to run 10km.

This only seems to happen when you go slightly over the activity time.
For example, if the 5km record is in a 7km run, it is showing correctly.

This seems to be a bug and should be resolved.

Best regards,

Tom

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 1770932
    1770932 said:
    They are now already taking the best xK if you have a much longer activity and I haven't seen any complaints about that

    Funny you mention that. Just be trawling through my own PR's and my best 5K was for a 11K run....... 

    yeah it may be a "cog wheel" option I guess. Sounds good.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 1770932
    1770932 said:
    They are now already taking the best xK if you have a much longer activity and I haven't seen any complaints about that.

    Of course they would, I have 1K and 1mi PR's

    Ok, I feel dumb now.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Lost in the Wild

    My 1/2ma PR is for a 22K run. I wonder if yours was just at the threshold where it either takes the total activity or scouts through.... Looks like you were just unlucky with the distance you hit that made it confused!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

    Very possible. 

    I’ll be in no rush to go out and test the theory though or indeed Lukey to even get close right now.
    My running and fitness in general has been destroyed since catching Covid in February but that’s another story!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Lost in the Wild

    This discussion has definitely piqued my interest. My 11K where I set a new 5K seems to have a new 10K too, but the distance is such that if I try to set it as 10K it takes the whole time......

    Thanks both, never noticed the issue here.

    Edit: Nope, its 3 seconds off! Must learn to count!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Lost in the Wild
    Lost in the Wild said:
    I’ll be in no rush to go out and test the theory though or indeed Lukey to even get close right now.
    My running and fitness in general has been destroyed since catching Covid in February but that’s another story!

    Sad to hear this! :(
    Hope you will be getting back to full health soon!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 1770932
    1770932 said:
    However, with the current bug, I am unable to get the CORRECT time that has been measured for 5K if I actually ran 5.05K...

    Thing is, though, how can you be absolutely sure it is 5.05km that you ran? I think this is a completely different question from pulling out a good 5k time from a 10k or half marathon, and I don't think the precision there matters anywhere near as much because you can run a faster 5k in isolation than you can as part of a 10k, so you'd probably beat that time anyway next time you went all out for 5k. And I remain of the view that the way Garmin handle distances close to a standard distance is correct.

    Of course if what you're saying is that you ran 12.625 laps of a standard 400m track, then yes you definitely ran 5,050m, but that really is an unusual case.

    ETA: In my case, I've never wanted to set any PRs that were not on certified, or at least wheel-measured, race routes or the track, but I guess your situation is different. Just to expand my view a bit, on Strava I have all my race PBs properly set, plus a bunch of estimated best efforts, which are wrong by between 9 seconds for the mile to 3 minutes for marathon, both well over 1% error, which is why I'm so skeptical about trusting GPS over certified distances

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Lost in the Wild
    Lost in the Wild said:
    My running and fitness in general has been destroyed since catching Covid in February but that’s another story!

    Take it slow and steady bud. You'll get there.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

    Slowly improving. Doing lots of easy cycling. 

    My running pace s still there but HR off the chart.