Hi All
This started happening just recently, within the last couple of weeks or so (since 8/12) I've noticed that when I am doing a Run activity on my Venu, the elevation gain for the course is getting higher and higher, yet I'm doing the same exact course I've been doing for years. I used to just use Walk to record my activities, but actually started running so I switched to using the appropriate activity for the extra metrics. This morning, my run showed an elevation gain of 732 feet, when the actual gain is somewhere in the 100-120 foot range give or take based on what I'm seeing for historical data in my other activities on the same course. I am not doing anything differently.
I did give my watch a cleaning with alcohol this morning after seeing this horribly inaccurate data, and also did a hard reset but have not yet done another activity, since this is what Support told me to do previously when I contacted them about inaccurate readings of elevation when at sea level. (It didn't help then, who knows if it will help now)
Here are screenshots of the elevation of my 5 most recent Run activities, and the 3 most recent Walk activities. I can see on the Run activities that it gets very choppy in the same areas for each run, getting progressively worse up to today. There are no trees or buildings or anything that could affect the track. And why it happens only on a Run is puzzling to me. The Runs on 8/20 and 8/18 are way off, but the walk on 8/19, on the same exact course, is what I'd expect the elevation to be.
Elevation gains noted by my Venu:
8/20 - 732 (run)
8/19 - 112 (walk)
8/18 - 325 (run)
8/13 - 308 (run)
8/12 - 187 (run)
8/6 - 105 (walk)
8/5 - 98 (walk)
8/4 - 105 (run)
Anyone else seeing any kind of weirdness like this?