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Treadmill calibration and strava

Any idee why after calibrating the distance of a treadmill run on my garmin 245 the calibrated distance shown on GC but the incorrect distance shows up on strava. Any why to automatically send the corrected/calibrated distance to strava

thanks

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RodF over 4 years ago +7

Here's a work around that worked for me.

Today, I did a 4.63 km run on my treadmill, but my Garmin watch said it was 6.83 kms which is obviously a large error. I did the correction on my watch after…
JONATHANBRAZIL over 5 years ago +2

The Garmin 'save and calibrate' function doesn't amend the fit file data stored on the watch, it only adds extra meta data so that Connect shows the distance you stated that you ran. When the fit file…
Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to JONATHANBRAZIL +2

I have the same issue and it's very disappointing. Just bought the watch yesterday. Another problem is that the data is not synchronized with Strava automatically (i have to manually upload it). Come on…

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0 adamb808 over 3 years ago

Hoping that Garmin can fix this. Huge disappointment to have bad TM distance sent to Strava. I immediately delete the Strava entry, create manual entry... but in doing so, lose a lot of good Garmin data (HR, cadence, calories, etc.). Please fix this, Garmin.

0 Ricardo Oliveira over 3 years ago in reply to RodF

Well that solve my problem! Its really easy! Thank you!

0 4965238 over 3 years ago

Any fix for this 3 year old issue? I've found out that after syncing my 245 with my phone, the distance is correctly displayed on Adidas Runtastic but still wrong on Strava.

0 5237851 over 2 years ago in reply to RodF

Unfortunately this workaround does not work anymore. Once the activity is in Strava you can't upload the file because the activity remains the same and Strava returns an error "activity_10263097098-fixed-distance.tcx duplicate of activity 8354078716"

Why they don't fix this!! :/

0 NickMN over 2 years ago in reply to 5237851

Based on that message that I have seen plenty for various issues where I need to upload the activity....

You need to delete the old/original activity out of Strava. Then import the new edited file

0 9563292 over 2 years ago in reply to NickMN

I am a software engineer and was so annoyed by this that I built my own tool to do this more easily. Looking for bets testers if you’d be interested!

stravatreadmillfixer.com

0 Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to 9563292

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0 9563292 over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

I initially just built this for myself but others expressed interest so I scrapped this together in a few weeks, what are your privacy concerns? I only request access to write activities through the Strava API. I don’t get any data from Garmin. You’d have to download the tcx file from Garmin to upload to Strava.

0 Ricardo Oliveira over 2 years ago in reply to 9563292

Hi! Can you have the option of km's instead of miles?

I currently use the https://www.tcxtools.com/tcx/distance/

And it does the trip... only have to first calculate the scaling factor=Treadmill Run/Garmin Run