Bloomin Mapmyrun!!!!

[Pete1w]

Ran for 25 minutes this morning and the Mapmyrun app reckons I only covered 2.2K!!!!! What the hell? I don't think so.

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

Time to get a gps watch?

[Sadie-runs Graduate10]

😬 I had problems with both Map my Run (it once claimed I ran a kilometre in 2 mins - now, I can go fast but not THAT fast). Switched to Strava and similar odd things happened, down to GPS dropping I reckon. Gave up and got a Garmin for my birthday. It never lets me down!

[jeffbird Graduate10]

that's annoying. If you really want to know how far you ran and can remember your route then you could use the measure distance function in google maps. It's a bit fiddly but accurate!

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I wouldn't rely on phone GPS and an app, they can be really unreliable. Having said that, my Garmin has robbed me of part of a run a couple of times - but only a couple over a year). Sometimes devices just lose the satellite, but watches do so less and are more accurate.

[Pete1w]

Can I justify the expense of a GPS watch???? Mind you Father Christmas is coming soon. 🤔🤔🤔

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10]

I run with both a gps watch and Runkeeper on my phone. Although they may not show the exact same distance, they're usually quite close.

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

Dexy and I both run with Garmin 35s. Yesterday we finished up running together for the last 2 laps of a just under 1k circuit, never more than 5 paces apart, and our watches beeped "4k complete" simultaneously. My last k split came up as 6'28" and hers as 6'41"!

Curious about this, I started delving and discovered the tracks on the computer screen show her starting her 4th k at a point around 30m away from (before) my start point, which explains the time discrepancy, but not why we then finished in the same place

Hey ho, I suppose tech gremlins are less bother than running gremlins …...

[Pete1w]

To be fair I'm not that bothered about anything being super accurate. I just feel cheated out of a run in my weekly statistics. At lease I know I completed the run and can move onto the next one. I'm aiming for at least 8 K on Sunday. Now I would be furious if the app miscalculated that run.....

[Dexy5 Graduate10 in reply to Pete1w]

Is there anyway of editing your stats online Pete? I know it is possible with Garmin.

[Pete1w in reply to Dexy5]

Not sure about thatbut I'll certainly look into it.