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ClimbPro fails to detect climb

klsmn
over 2 years ago

Hey there,

I got an Edge 830 for Christmas and began using it recently. Syncing etc. works fine so out I went on my first short ride with a loaded course.

Approaching the single short climb that is on the route (the rest is relatively flat), I was wondering why ClimbPro did not pop up, I had it set to "all climbs".

Here is the route: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/10981420593

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The climb starts at around 10k in at 307m of elevation and covers about 60m of climbing in about 1000m.

The Strava segment is a bit longer but has these values: 1.17km distance, 57m elevation gain at an avg. gradient of 4.9%.

As I understand the ClimbPro metrics, this short climb gets a score of 1170 x 4.9 = 5.733, so should easily qualify as a climb. But it doesn't show up. Why not?

(You can ignore the second climb, this was a deviation in the route I had originally planned.)

However, when I look at the route on the Edge 830, under climbs it tells me that there is one starting at 5.52km with a gradient of 3% for a length of 621m, which may barely meet the criteria but doesn't even feel like a climb at all... ;-) 

Additional info: the route was planned on kommot and synced automatically.

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So: what is going on? Is there a fix for this?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    So what I figured is that in this specific set of circumstances on this route, ClimbPro ist working, but not as expected.

    The route has a fairly flat, albeit uphill elevation profile, accentuated by the "bigger" climb I reference in the OP. However, ClimbPro doesn't detect that climb as the user would expect, because it looks at the total "climb" i.e. the total uphill that is being done prior to that small steep uphill. On it's own, the climb would match the criteria, but rolled into the far longer, only very slightly uphill section immediately prior to it, the resulting very long climb does not match the criteria for ClimbPro. 

    TL;DR In other words: ClimbPro doesn't work as the user expects it because it does not "see" very apparent climbs in connection with longer, very flat uphill sections that do not feel like a climb. 

    Maybe someone can comment if that is an accurate description.