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Run is showing two different distances.

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I went out for a 44-minute run today that had 5 intervals. My watch shows 4.36 total miles run, but when I select the run on the watch to view the details, or when I sync the run with my phone app, it only shows 3.93 miles. Why would this happen? It's making my pace for the run way slower than it should be.

The only thing I can think of is that one of the intervals was a 5-minute zone 2 run, during which i ran 0.44 miles which is roughly the missing mileage.

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    Is it a track run? There are some known bugs with intervals there.

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    For anyone interested, I have determined what is causing this problem, as it has happened to me more than once. If you stop a run in the final second of a planned run (in my case, I stopped this run at 4:59.8 of the 5 minute "cool-down" of my planned run), it will "officially" record zero distance traveled during the last leg of the run, while still adding the time of that last leg to the total run time.

    Example: You create a run that is 5 minutes warm-up, 10 minutes run, 5 minutes cool-down. You run 0.5 miles, 1 mile, and 0.5 miles, respectively. You stop the run at a total time of 19:59.9. It will say you ran 1.5 miles at a pace of 13:20 (when clearly you actaully ran 2 miles at a pace of 10:00).

    Then, on your next run, the distance that was omitted from your previous run will be ADDED to the very start. I noticed this when my watch told me I was running at a 2:00 pace a quarter mile into a run.

    Note: I have the record-every-second feature turned on (whatever it is called). Not sure if this happens when you have the default record setting on.

    In any case, yet another embarrassingly simple bug that garmin will surely never address.