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How to find exact recorded running distance

AK_19_08
over 3 years ago

Hi there, 

how to find exact recorded running distance?

Garmin displays running distance in kilometres with two decimal points. Basically , Garmin rounds distance to ten meters. 

is there any way to find recorded distance without rounding. Actually, I am looking for distance to nearest meter. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    ANSWER:  If anyone needs to see what distance your watch recorded, you can locate and open FIT file for an activity in question. FIT file contains data as recorded, so I could see distance run to nearest meter. 
    I used a program GoldenCheetah to open FIT file. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to AK_19_08

    +1 for Golden Cheetah.

    I use it every day.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to AK_19_08
    AK_19_08 said:
    distance your watch recorded,

    Is not necessarily the same as the distance you travelled. If you want to record the exact running distance you need a calibrated wheel.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    Well, OP asked about "exact recorded distance", and not the actual distance travelled. We don't know what he wants to do with it, but this is irrelevant in the context of this discussion.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to tmk2

    You're absolutely right....but

    AK_19_08 said:
    so I could see distance run to nearest meter.

    which is not true. All the OP can see is the distance recorded to the nearest meter. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    AK-19-08 is the OP, and from AK's response (and your clarification) you can tell they don't seem to understand the significant figures involved here.  Or what they are really looking for and getting.

    that FitFileRecorded vs Run vs Watch Display vs Strava display vs 'Strava corrected distance' vs Mapmyrun are all different!!!  The longer and more turns/trees/buildings the more they are all off!  By often 50 to Hundreds of meters!!!  

    Use a Surveying/GIS GPS that is mounted on a pole for minutes/hours... now it's a bit of a different story

    If you are attempting to use it for some accuracy test amongst watches or analyze the GPS filtering/processing software on garmin's watch vs other platforms... the final total distance to more than .01 km... don't see how that is going to provide any statistical help. It's likely one of the reasons why platforms like Strava didn't even display a hundredth decimal place!

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The distance is likely not accurate enough to a nearest meter. But if you want to see that, I way to do that is to download the activity TCX file on Garmin Gonnect web. TXC is a text file so you can open it with any text editor such as notepad or probably even directly in the browser. Scroll to the end of the file and look for the very last DistanceMeters record, which should look like this:

    <DistanceMeters>16745.720703125</DistanceMeters>

    This will be your total activity distance.
  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to silentvoyager

    Thanks. Useful to know. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to silentvoyager
    silentvoyager said:
    This will be your total activity distance

    recorded, which is not necessarily the distance run.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    This thread is titled "How to find exact recorded running distance?"