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During Multisport Activities for the transition recorded distance is shown as zero.

Faris_2
over 2 years ago

After all the firmware updates, I did last weekend a Triathlon and for the Transition no distance was recorded, instaed the distance was added to the run which messed up the whole pace for the run and also the distance for the run was wrong. Looks like there is no distance recording for the transition, it shows a time but also no position on the map and the didtance is shows a zero.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I saw this as well. I think it is intentional, but not sure. Mine didn't seem to add any distance to other legs of the race - the maps for the run and bike are exactly as they should be.

    It's possible the "extra" distance on your run is just the usual amount of give/take that you get with GPS distance tracking. One of my races from last weekend shows a 6.7mi run, but the course was listed as 6.55. That's normal.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RedSocks157
    RedSocks157 said:
    One of my races from last weekend shows a 6.7mi run, but the course was listed as 6.55. That's normal

    There are several people here who will swear blind the Fenix 6 always measures short in this forum...;) 

    I usually trend long too if anything.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 5135968

    I think people expect too much from technology sometimes lol. In the grand scheme of things, a run being off by .15 out of 6+ miles isn't much! It's actually kind of incredible that we can track our activities with that level of precision. It wasn't even possible 10 years ago! All that said, when it loses a signal and screws up my pace readings I still get a little frustrated in the moment Sweat smile

    But yeah I noticed the same thing with my transitions, and I think it is supposed to be that way. My guess would be that having a GPS map of the jog from the swim exit to pick up the bike was just not that important/useful, which I can agree with. If it is a bug though, I'm sure we'll find out soon enough!

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RedSocks157

    Depending on the race I actually like having the GPS track from the swim exit to transition. Some races I've done have a rather long distance between the 2 (longest I've ever done was half a mile) so since I had to suffer through that I wanted it included, lol. I know it's not officially part of the race distance so I can see the argument for excluding it I just like having it there, but that's just my personal preference.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to PaulDN81

    Exactly, I do agree, some transitions are pretty long so I guess it should be measured too.

  • +1 over 2 years ago in reply to RedSocks157

    Now actually, I do see on the map that the runs starts from the distance at my bike but the time as a pushed the button for the run, which made for sure the whole pacing a bit weird as the transition was a couple of hundred meters long and the the average pace was much faster than the real pace. Anyway looks like after the update, sme people had the problem. By the way I have opened a ticket and Garmin told me reset the profile, what I did, but problem still exists. I guess it is not intentional otherwise they would have said "it is not a bug it is a feature " :-))

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I can confirm that as of June 2, 2022 for Triathlons (haven’t tried other multi-sport activities yet) that Transitions are not recording GPS. It was operating normally last month in early May.

    I’m not sure why this is happening, if you can change it back. But if you want to record the transitions, a workaround for the time being would be to create a new type of Multisport activity app in your watch; add your transition stages as a different type of activity that record GPS (ie walk). You can edit the type to “transition” afterward in Connect (it’s one of the activity types you can choose from).

    I actually created a new type of activity in my watch simply called “Transition” (activity type “other”) so I can add it to new types of multisport activities that I create. You can also combine it with the “Change Sport” Hot Button - so if you finish a nice leisurely swim and suddenly want to turn it into a full triathlon, you can do so on the fly! ;-)

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 9824633

    Only problem with this solution is that you might run into the issue where there is a 60 item limit on activity profiles and the built ins all count against it. So with all the defaults it pretty much means you can only have 3 or fewer custom activities and may not have the slots available. Hopefully both that issue and this one will be changed in future updates.

    I recently did a race and I'm still running 20.50 and it did record GPS for transition, so it's definitely the newer firmware. Given this issue I'll continue to hold off on upgrading it for now.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Faris_2

    Is it possible that this change was considered not big enough to be worth saying anything about?

    I still think it's a deliberate change. There are reasons for them to want to do it - like not wasting space on GPS tracks for a part of the race that isn't really tracked.

    I just thought of an easy way to check. Does the Fenix 7 record transitions this way? If so, then I'd say its a deliberate choice by Garmin to have them recorded like this. If not, that would indicate that it was accidentally introduced when they updated the Fenix 6 series with some of the new stuff (i.e. firmware 21.00).

    So...anyone got a friend with a Fenix 7 to test my theory? Joy

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RedSocks157

    I do bike-run-bike or bike-hike-bike activities and I definitely do not want distance recorded in-between sports during the transistion- I always used to pause my activities and then start the next activity after unpausing to explicitly avoid unwanted transition distance.

    Seems like a classic case where Garmin should allow transitions to record distance or not, depending on user preference rather than arbitrarily choosing one side or another.