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Manually Entered Stride Length Not Being used in Distance Calculations for Tracked Walk Activities (GPS off)

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over 4 years ago

I manually entered a walking stride length of 85cm (i.e. 85m/100 steps) when I first set up my Forerunner 45 a couple of months ago. The steps estimated by the device are very accurate. But the distance for every walk is way lower than it should be. If the 85cm stride length were being used, the estimated distance would match the actual distance almost exactly using the recorded step count. But the device consistently seems to be using a stride length of 65 to 70cm when estimating distance.

Is there a way to fix this?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I had exactly the same problem with my Vivoactive 3 Music.  I've just got a new 745 and was expecting the issue to have been resolved in the new watch, but it is exactly the same.  Like yours, both my devices have tracked steps very accurately (or at least consistently) but the watches seem to ignore whatever stride length I use and instead substitute a random number between 65 and 70 cm.  It's disappointing that something so simple still doesn't work.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to DavidC

    I have been tinkering with the same thing on my FR255 and coming to the same conclusion. What is the purpose of this setting?

    But also, why should I have to set it?  I've already done multiple walks with GPS enabled so the watch and connect app should know very well how many steps I usually do in a mile. Why isn't it calibrated to that?

    I can repeat the exact same walking circuit for about an hour with about +/- 3 minutes total duration, and it will give a distance that is about 80% of what I got with GPS enabled on prior days.  I can't imagine that I have made 20% fewer steps.

    Edit: with the altimeter and wrist HR, you could imagine something smarter to track different strides for different terrain and effort levels too...