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Wrong distance for Indoor Walking

I did 1 indoor walk today, for 27 minutes, with a step count of 2400 steps which is normal.

But when I checked the distance on my Venu 2 and on Connect the distance was 0.35 km which is very very low.

So I modified my stride in the parameters and did another indoor walk today, for 24 minutes, with a step count of 1900 steps, the distance is still wrong at 0.3 km.

Does anyone know how to get a correct estimation of the distance while indoor walking ?

0 7882058 over 2 years ago

I found that the Venu 2 was computing as if every step was 1 foot instead the 2 feet I set in custom. I read on another forum that Garmin recommends that one should perform an exaggerated swing (like that of the British Army - my suggestion) and I tried it today, comparing it to a pedometer app on my phone. As before, same number of steps recorded by both, but now the distance was essentially correct (based upon steps times 2 feet divided by 5280..) Going to be hard to get used to but if a Brit soldier can do it, so can we.