Today I raced a 5K and the 7.11 is the worst firmware I've had

The basics are broken. Yesterday I installed the 7.11 and hard restarted the watch.

Today I ran a 5K at 3:25/km over 180bpm and the watch instant pace was wrong at 4:05/km whilst the heart rate was also wrong, it only hit over 180 last K and the average was 158 despite a 99% effort.

I had auto lap off and the lap time was correct showing 3:25 as was the finished average pace. The distance was exactly 5.0 but I got no training load benefits it gave me a 3 for aerobic and 0.0 for anaerobic. 33% in zone 5 and 24% zone 2 using wrist heart rate which is usually very accurate during runs and races

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0 KDilz over 2 years ago

no PRobles with 7.11 on my side.

0 FlowState over 2 years ago

Sounds like the same instant pace bug that's present in 7.07 beta. Instant pace was fine on my 945 LTE until I installed 7.07 beta. I updated to 7.11 recently, and the problem still seems to be there (not that I was expecting to be fixed already.)

Here's a bug report - please vote for it: https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-945-lte/public-beta-bug-reports/i/public-beta-7-70/instantaneous-pace-does-not-correlate-with-interval-pace-during-workout

I don't think I've had any issues with HR tho.

0 9386496 over 2 years ago in reply to KDilz

I just ran a 16:55 5K and my watch says 18:16 prediction and the other distanced are well off. The old firmware was only around 4 seconds off from my real 5K. How can it say 18:16 when I've ran a 5.0 distance in 16:55

0 ejdzsin over 2 years ago in reply to 9386496

I could beat literally every single one of the 4 predictions (5K/10K/HM/MT) my watch wants me to believe.

0 S.M.R. over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

As a 955 user we have had similar issues arising for the last month when there were firmware updates that caused some fun so to say. You will see on the 955 and 255 forums lots of similar issues

0 FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to S.M.R.

Yeah, but amazingly people will say that it's a much better state of affairs than a couple of years ago. I mean that may be true, but I feel like we should expect more.

0 FlipStone over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

Interesting, think this is the same as what I noticed on my 955 a while ago:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/310128/inconsistencies-average-pace-per-lap-vs-pace-shown-in-chart

I usually look at avg lap pace though so not checked recently, also not doing any specific training plan atm but planning on starting something soon (or perhaps will do one again) and see if it's still the case. Most likely though coz, well... Garmin.

Indeed noticed that I got warning during a workout that I was too slow, even though avg pace for the lap showed I was way faster...

Many frustrating experiences with this watch so far, a true love/hate relationship

0 Shiva over 2 years ago

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9865063658?share_unique_id=72
The pace was absolutely wrong for me as well during my run yesterday. When I noticed it, I paused my activity and resumed again, it was better after that.