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Walking activities

4411990 over 3 years ago

Indoor Walking activity on watch is useless.
I've done lots of Outdoor Walks with GPS and decided to walk around the Mall today because it was raining.

Continous walk, no stopping, arm movement as I always do for outside walks.

Pace is a joke. Distance is way off. I can accept an estimate based on stride and steps, but 0.06 miles for about 3000 steps is nuts. And yes I had to use a CIQ steps-to-FIT data field.

Walking time was 31.19 minutes and it reported moving time as 2.01 minutes minutes. Really?

And why does Garmin offer WALKIING activites and not include STEPS in the data is beyond my comprehension!
If they can count steps outside an activity why can't they include them in an activity? Why have to install a CIQ steps data field?

And I see this problem is at least 2 years old and still no fix.

0 4411990 over 3 years ago in reply to ovekvam

Maybe but, notice the first sentence:

"The calibration activity should be recorded at similar pace to your regular pace"

My pace is slightly slower because of back problems. So my last 6 months of outdoor walking with GPS don't fit there scheme.

I would be happy for a plain WALK INDOOR without GPS activity that showed time, steps, heart rate, and HR zones. But then that would be too simple. Although with a fairly accurate stride you can estimate distance, which is not that important to me.

But wait, other watches seem to have that feature....