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treadmill pace / distance WAY off anyone else?

jk559822
over 5 years ago

All of a sudden the last week or so my Treadmill runs are off about by 50%.  Meaning I am running 5 Minute Miles, I wish.  Anyway else experience this? I guess I will reformat the Garmin.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Yes, mine are now way off too! I can calibrate the total, but it does nothing to help the splits. I think I saw a way to calibrate each mile (or split), but I can't find it now. Hopefully it will improve with the next update.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to GailNestor

    It takes a time and some calibrations to learn. You also can manually add your stride length in garmin connect, maybe it is more accurate in your case.

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Me too. Now I’m supposedly running 10 min kilometers, 100% slower than normal. I have tried just the watch, connected a footpod, and a dynamics pod with same results. Every time I try to adjust calibration, it doesn’t even let me adjust correct pace. Help!!!

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I reset my watch to factory settings and my first run was almost exactly correct.  After a few runs, including calibrations on the treadmill and one outside run, the Garmin 245 Music is so inacurate its NOT even funny.  I'll be calling Garmin tomorrow.  Very, very, very unhappy customer.  My last watch was a Garmin 235.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Sean314159

    Get a foot pod. Reality is that no wrist based accelerometer is going to accurately measure distance. Even worse, your stride changes when on a treadmill, so even if it were semi-accurate when calibrated outdoors, it would go haywire inside. 

    Footpods are taking actual measurements of your running gait, rather than trying to extrapolate that data from your arm movement. That also gets messed up when you change your arm movement. Say grab water, send a text or change a song, change treadmill pace, whatever. Watch can say I'm running 7:10 pace (close enough to what I'm actually running), but send a quick text, and my lap pace drops to 7:40 or something as my arm didn't move for 20 seconds. 

    Some easy runs, my 245 is okay on the treadmill. Maybe 5-7% off. Other times, like interval days or tempo runs, it is a good 30-40% off as it can't detect the pace change. 

    If you don't want a footpod, then manually lap your splits each mile. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to caverunner17

    I'm planing to purchase a footpod eventually, but I just spent a lot on th 245m and I don't have another $120 for a footpod at the moment.  Also, some people say the footpod didn't help (there's even a post above).

    Anyway, I called Garmin today and there trying to put my in touch with the engineering team.  They didn't say there was a problem, but reading between the lines it seems like there might be a problem.

    If anyone from Garmin reads this thread, the calibration is garbage (I'd actually recommend NOT using it).  The calibration on the 245m just changes the total distance of the run and doesn't adjust any of the details (like the split distances or pacing).

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Sean314159

    I'm with you on this. Not only are the distances way off, but last night the watch totally nuked the run I logged. It's like it didn't even exist. It got stuck at .45 mi and when I noticed at the end, hit stop, it just imploded. 

    I bought this watch because I wanted a non-touchscreen, running/fitness-dedicated watch. I came over from an Apple Watch. If the apple watch can better track my treadmill runs with NO calibration and only be off by about .1-.15 then how is it that my FR245 thinks I ran 5 miles when I only did 3? 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I've had the same issue with mine and have jumped through hoops with customer support (sending photos, files from my watch, etc) but they don't seem that interested in fixing it. I've noticed the same bug for people over on Reddit. Performing a factory restore temporarily fixes the problem but it soon goes out of sync again.

    Anyone that suggests buying a footpod is way off the mark. Other, less expensive are able to do this more accurately without the need for additional cost.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Same problem here. Hope to see a resolution. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I've been working with customer service to resolve the issue.  I have a foot pod so its pretty easy to see the differences in the runs.  I'd try using the run setting for indoors instead of the treadmill setting.  I'm NOT sure why they didn't catch this issue before they released the device.  Even some of the reviews mentioned that the treadmill runs were way off.