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Floor climb while running

Hi all, it's a while I've noticed I reach my floor climb target while running in a flat route; I'm not sure since I started having this issue, but obviously, something is wrong here...Anyone else? Floor climbing it's not really a metric that I take into account in my workout, but I'm a fussy person, and I love things when they work as they should

0 pgalbavy over 4 years ago

Not sure, but it may be watch detecting barometric change and movement and deciding you are climbing insted of the weather changing?

0 afarnedi over 4 years ago in reply to pgalbavy

dunno...but as I said it happens in flat routes and after few km...like 3 or 4...usually weather it's not changing dramatically in these 15/20 minutes running

0 pgalbavy over 4 years ago in reply to afarnedi

Even small changes matter - imagine the tiny barmetric change per flight of stairs!

0 pgalbavy over 4 years ago in reply to pgalbavy

That said, yes it does sound like a bug!

0 DPSK over 4 years ago

LOL I have floors climbed when I'm in the hot shower.

Possible area of improvement for Garmin on the algorithm?

0 ellefson over 4 years ago

I've noticed the same thing too. The longer I run, the more flights it seems to rack up. Some are deserved, some are not. I also notice that my starting elevation and finishing elevation are usually different when I start/stop at the same location. I assume it is the barometric pressure sensor. If the wind is blowing while you run, that means the barometric pressure is changing, and the barometric sensor will likely count floors that you didn't run.

0 afarnedi over 4 years ago in reply to ellefson

Makes sense