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Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
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Well, that's 6.6% high, which is well outside of what you should expect: Normally, the GPS data sort of self-corrects as you go -- positional inaccuracy is not cumulative, and errors don't compound the way they might with a footpod-based device.
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While vertical locational errors will cancel over a run, horizontal measurement errors do not. That is horizontal locational errors are cumulative.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Out of curiosity, has anybody checked the accuracy with the "every second" data point recording versus the standard "smart recording?"
It also depends how good of signal/how many satellites it was picking up. My handheld navigational Garmin actually tells you on acquisition what ther +/- error is according to current signal quality; the running versions don't! For example, last time I booted it up I had clear sky and an error margin of 86 feet! The time before it was only 15.
I imagine it's a little better, because it will capture corners more accurately i.e. when you turn a corner with less sampling, it draws a straight line between the points, making it look like you cut the corner.
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I love my Garmin. It’s great for giving me a ballpark figure of how far I’ve run on a strange route and keeping track of a lot of data. However, it has limits. For races I leave at home, preferring to use my trusty stopwatch and mile markers to gauge my pace.
Not at it at all.
"...it draws a straight line between the points, making it look like you cut the corner." I read that as meaning less accuracy.
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