RunningAHEAD - Topic: Garmin running backwards?

Mile Collector

Abs of Flabs

posted: 10/19/2008 at 2:22 PM

Hi guys, I have a Garmin 305 (red if that matters). I went for a long run today and when I got to mile 6, my total distance started decreasing! The time continue to tick forward but I lost distance as I ran. After a while, I stopped looking at it but at some point, the distance increased again. I ended up losing 3 miles. It has happened once before. I thought I was seeing things since it was at the very end of a long run. Has anyone experienced this? It doesn't happen consistently so I don't know what the Garmin tech support could do for me.

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Bonkin

posted: 10/19/2008 at 3:02 PM

Quote from Mile Collector on 10/19/2008 at 2:22 PM:

Hi guys, I have a Garmin 305 (red if that matters). I went for a long run today and when I got to mile 6, my total distance started decreasing! The time continue to tick forward but I lost distance as I ran. After a while, I stopped looking at it but at some point, the distance increased again. I ended up losing 3 miles. It has happened once before. I thought I was seeing things since it was at the very end of a long run. Has anyone experienced this? It doesn't happen consistently so I don't know what the Garmin tech support could do for me.

Trishierunner had this happen to her last year. I'm pretty sure she had to send it back to the mother ship for repair/replacement.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 10/19/2008 at 3:13 PM

Quote from Bonkin on 10/19/2008 at 3:02 PM:

Trishierunner had this happen to her last year. I'm pretty sure she had to send it back to the mother ship for repair/replacement.

I was just coming to post that. I remember her issue with that. Definitely does not sound like something that would happen if Eric programmed the Garmins! Evil grin

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Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 10/19/2008 at 4:42 PM
modified: 10/19/2008 at 5:06 PM

I had it happen two or three times...both at the same place which was weird. (Garmin 301) I updated software (from online) and cleared the memory because that was going to be the first thing that Garmin told me to do and it never happened again - but it had not happened frequently before so I dont know if it fixed it or what. Garmin's official stance was "We've never heard of that" This august my beloved 301 died an untimely death being smooshed between van seats on HTC. Cry

Oh and both times it happened ON the run, as soon as I noticed I hit the lap button and it started running forward again. MTA: both times mine happened in a wide open field, but when I hit the mile mark near powerlines. Dunno if it was related or not.

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ArlaHile

Queen of 3rd Place

posted: 10/19/2008 at 4:54 PM

My 305 has done that exactly twice in 3 years, and once it told me my 10 mi run was a tad over 17, which was sort of fun. Arla

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perfesserr

Imminent Catastrophe

posted: 10/19/2008 at 9:02 PM

were you running backwards? Big grin

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lasdinaub

posted: 10/19/2008 at 9:40 PM

Yeah - my Garmin did this a couple imes on an out-and-back. I updated the software and I haven't noticed it since - and that was last winter.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 10/19/2008 at 9:44 PM

Quote from perfesserr on 10/19/2008 at 9:02 PM:

were you running backwards?

*80's flashback to Ferris Bueller's Day off*

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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Mile Collector

Abs of Flabs

posted: 10/19/2008 at 10:01 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 10/19/2008 at 9:44 PM:

*80's flashback to Ferris Bueller's Day off*

I was thinking off of "Back to the Future". I'll try updating of the firmware. Nothing is more demoralizing than to see my mileage go down as I run fowrad. Thanks guys!

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jEfFgObLuE

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posted: 10/19/2008 at 10:47 PM

Quote from Bonkin on 10/19/2008 at 3:02 PM:

Trishierunner had this happen to her last year. I'm pretty sure she had to send it back to the mother ship for repair/replacement.

Maybe that explains why we never hear from her anymore -- she went through a temporal rift.

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xor

posted: 10/19/2008 at 11:56 PM

When your garmin spins backwards, does the display read "turn me on, dead man"?

Craig S

Menace to Sobriety

posted: 10/20/2008 at 11:33 AM
modified: 10/20/2008 at 11:34 AM

Did you wind it backwards? Are the batteries in the right way? Big grin

Seriously though: Were you running in woods, around tall buildings, etc? Making alot of turns? I have a 201 that will occasionally "lose" distance, but not steadily so. Sometimes I'll look and be at 3.00 and look a few minutes later and it'll be 2.94. It usually is when I've made a fairly sharp turn or even a 180. I also noticed this when under heavy foliage or around tall buildings. I think sometimes it loses a good lock on the satillites then extrapolates the distance wrong when it picks them back up after a turn. I've been using GPS units for close to 15 years on my boats, and they're a great tool. They're alot more accurate and speedier to lock on these days as well, but they are not partcularly accurate over relatively short distances when making alot of turns or sharp curves.

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modal

posted: 10/20/2008 at 11:35 AM

Wormhole?

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kcam

posted: 10/20/2008 at 12:07 PM

Quote from lasdinaub on 10/19/2008 at 9:40 PM:

Yeah - my Garmin did this a couple imes on an out-and-back. I updated the software and I haven't noticed it since - and that was last winter.

Hey, maybe this is a new 'feature' on out-and-back courses!

Mile Collector

Abs of Flabs

posted: 10/20/2008 at 12:49 PM

Quote from kcam on 10/20/2008 at 12:07 PM:

Hey, maybe this is a new 'feature' on out-and-back courses!

In my loopy long run state, I thought that the Garmin was measuring (the physics definition of) work, that the distance would go down to zero as I get back to the start point of my run. Reception wasn't the problem since I was on a bridge when the problem started.

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