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Total distance travelled by foot

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over 3 years ago

Hey Team,

New to Garmin after using a Fitbit for years. On my Fitbit it gives me the option to see the total distance ive travelled in a day by foot on my home screen.

I can't find anything similar on the Garmin, it only gives me the total for my run as an option to display, any suggestions? 

Kindly

Ace 

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  • 0 over 3 years ago

    You can add it as a datafield on the default watchfaces, or you can find it in the "My Day" widget (open the Steps section, then scroll to the last page). I haven't found a way to see it in the Connect app, though.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to C.sco

    But keep in mind the total distance is a just guesstimate based on the number of steps and the preconfigured stride length. If the stride length isn't configured I guess the watch derives that from your height. The watch doesn't actually measure the distance outside of an activity with GPS enabled.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to C.sco

    Okay I'm trying that 

    Menu > Watch Faces > Customise > Data > ??? ( I can't find the value for it) 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to silentvoyager
    silentvoyager said:
    But keep in mind the total distance is a just guesstimate based on the number of steps and the preconfigured stride length. If the stride length isn't configured I guess the watch derives that from your height. The watch doesn't actually measure the distance outside of an activity with GPS enabled.

    In fact, total distance covered is almost certainly highly misleading. While people often have a consistent stride length when walking briskly outdoors, stride length gets shortened considerably when indoors, stop/start steps, etc. Total steps x (outside) stride length does not equal actual distance covered.