No average lap speed. Sunnto has it why not Garmin?

I recently moved from Sunnto to Garmin.

My primary exercise is long distance hiking in difficult terrain. On the Sunnto watch I used the average lap speed function to determine how fast I need to walk to reach camp by a certain time.

i.e If it is 3pm and my campsite is 5km away and I want to reach it by 5pm I would simply hit the lap key and then use the average lap speed to keep my walking speed at 2.5km/h hour or greater in order to reach the campsite on time. Its important because its a hassle to set up camp in the dark.

My fenix 6x doesnt have average lap speed.. It only has average lap pace which is great for runners but no use to me as a hiker.

Garmin can you add this in the next update please?

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Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to wildside +3

wildside said:
@Epsilon Thanks for your suggestion. your suggestion works but in most cases its not really practical for me to stop and manually enter in distances so the custom app can make the calculations…
Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago +1

THough apparently the lap speed data field is:

Lap Speed

The average speed for the current lap.

and

Average Speed

The average speed for the current activity.

You could add the average/lap speed data field…
TobiasLj over 3 years ago in reply to wildside +1

wildside said:
lap speed field (speed at any given time during the lap but not averaged)

The lap pace/speed is the average for the current lap:

Lap Pace
The average pace for the current lap.

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0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago

Would something like this tide you over till it's added?

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/28fdec7f-3807-4d24-b85a-4c86b40501f4#0

CIQ datafield which does rolling average pace/speed over a definable time/distance

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago

THough apparently the lap speed data field is:

Lap Speed

The average speed for the current lap.

and

Average Speed

The average speed for the current activity.

You could add the average/lap speed data field to the map screen?

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix66s6xpro/EN-US/GUID-5176B6E4-F272-4437-BDA7-85B31231CB3E.html

0 mcalista over 3 years ago

No need to add it. It is already there.

You can set a pace/speed preference for each activity:

System> Format> Pace/Speed Preference

Also, within the Hike Data Fields, there is a lap speed field (under the Speed category).

0 wildside over 3 years ago

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, there is no average lap speed field This is quite different from average speed field (average speed over the entire exercise) and the lap speed field (speed at any given time during the lap but not averaged)

@Epsilon Thanks for your suggestion. your suggestion works but in most cases its not really practical for me to stop and manually enter in distances so the custom app can make the calculations. Really this something Garmin should have as standard. If they can golf courses surely, we can have average lap speed.

@mcalista unfortunately changing the formal pace/speed doesn’t give you a average lap speed option nor does hike data fields. Hike data fields only shows lap speed not average lap speed.

0 TobiasLj over 3 years ago in reply to wildside

wildside said:
lap speed field (speed at any given time during the lap but not averaged)

The lap pace/speed is the average for the current lap:

Lap Pace
The average pace for the current lap.

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix6-6ssport/EN-US/GUID-5176B6E4-F272-4437-BDA7-85B31231CB3E.html

0 Simone.01 over 3 years ago in reply to wildside

wildside said:
Hike data fields only shows lap speed not average lap speed

As TobiasLj already told you, LAP Speed Show the average data.

So, use it and be happy

0 skopek over 3 years ago

If you have routing on then ETA might be good enough. This is constantly updated based on your speed.

0 mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to wildside

wildside said:
This is quite different from average speed field (average speed over the entire exercise) and the lap speed field (speed at any given time during the lap but not averaged)

No. Lap Speed is the average speed for that lap. This is exactly what you are seeking, it just doesn't have the word "average" in the title.

Speed at any given time is the "Speed" field.

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to wildside

wildside said:
@Epsilon Thanks for your suggestion. your suggestion works but in most cases its not really practical for me to stop and manually enter in distances so the custom app can make the calculations. Really this something Garmin should have as standard. If they can golf courses surely, we can have average lap speed.

It is - as the Fine Manual states:

Lap Speed

The average speed for the current lap.

(i.e lap speed field is NOT speed at any given time during the lap but not averaged, it is averaged,) There is no sense to having a non-averaged instantaneous speed and call it lap)

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix66s6xpro/EN-US/GUID-5176B6E4-F272-4437-BDA7-85B31231CB3E.html