Garmin Forerunner 35 - pace/speed is confusing me!

[caroldavies071969]

I've had my new watch about a week and I'm mostly enjoying it. It automatically syncs to Strava (and Garmin Connect) after each run and from then on I see my pace as I would expect to (currently around 8 km per hour as I've had a bit of time off due to injury and holidays!)

I've been used to using Strava via my phone and it would announce my average pace every half a km. However my watch doesn't show me the same sort of info, the pace on my watch showed as around 13-14 for most of my run yesterday which is confusing me a lot! I've done some googling and looks at some comparison charts and it seems that that could be "minutes per mile" depicus.com/swim-bike-run/p..., however my watch is set to "km" and not "miles".

Can anyone with more experience of using their Garmin watch through some light on this and tell me how I can just see my current (and average) pace on my watch in the way in shows on Strava and Connect!

Thanks lots.

[damienair Administrator]

You need to press the bottom left button, use bottom right button to scroll down to settings, go into settings and select System, select units, select kilometers.

Enter all your details too in User Profile.

Keep pressing bottom left button to go back to home screen.

Then press top right button - run outdoors- press button again - menu will come up, using bottom right button scroll down to Data Fields, - enter - page 1 - enter - select Distance on top, average pace in the middle, time at the bottom.

That’s the page which will be displayed whilst your running.

[caroldavies071969 Graduate10 in reply to damienair]

Thanks Damian, I did this when I first got my watch. It displays in km on Strava/Connect but in miles on my watch. It looks like there's a fix for it on the post below though so I'll take a look at that and keep my fingers crossed!

[MarkyD Graduate10]

Nice watch, Carol. FR35 has been fantastically successful for Garmin.

The "watch in km but pace in minutes/mile" bug is well-known to Garmin. Take a look at this post on the community site:

forums.garmin.com/sports-fi...

Scroll down until you see a post from ChunkyWizard - he is Paul, my mate and a Garmin beta-tester. His answer tells you everything that you need to know to fix this.

You mentioned running at a speed of 8km per hour. So you will take 7.5 minutes to run every kilometer. This means that your running pace is 7'30" per kilometer (sometimes we just say 'a 7'30" pace'). In a running group, they may announce "tonight we are running 5km at 6 minute pace" (meaning that the pain will be over in 30 minutes). Since a mile is 1.6x a kilometer, this means that a 7'30" pace is indeed a 12 minute-per-mile pace, as displayed on your watch.

Trust that you get it sorted out OK.

[caroldavies071969 Graduate10 in reply to MarkyD]

Thanks Marky, do you mean the reply where he says it needs to state km in all three places? I've logged into Connect using the browser on my phone but can't see where I can change any settings (apart from watch settings and this says km).

[UpTheStanley Graduate10]

Hi Carol

I had a possibly related problem - my watch was doing laps in miles though everything was set to kms everywhere possible. This extract from a previous thread might be relevant (or might not). It's my last post after I somehow got things the way I wanted them …….

"I have now discovered (thanks Pianoteacher) that on the watch (but not on phone or computer), a click on "Auto Lap" tells you whether it thinks a lap is a mile or a kilometre - but doesn't offer any way of changing it

But if you switch Auto Lap off, then on again, it may change to whatever units you have got set up elsewhere - or possibly you may have to switch units to miles then back to ks while Auto Lap is off - we pressed so many buttons in random order I can't be sure!

Anyway, Auto Lap is now set to ks . "

If you want to try this, select "Run Outdoor" then "Options" then "Laps" then "Auto Laps" which shows you what it thinks a lap is, and gives you the option to toggle it from on to off and vv.

Good luck!!

[caroldavies071969 Graduate10 in reply to UpTheStanley]

Thanks UpTheStanley, I've now turned autolap off. I'll try a quick run round the garden tomorrow to see if it's worked!

[trpp]

I have a FR30 and it is possible to have announcements (from your phone) as with Strava. You can select the type of info and the frequency of announcements. The options are under Devices: Activity Options: Audio Prompts.

[caroldavies071969 Graduate10 in reply to trpp]

Thanks for that trpp, I didn't realise I could have audio updates too 👍I'll test it out later on and see if they come through as km or miles.

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Hi Carol - hope you have solved this by now but just to add that I had the same problem . It took a while to fix but toggling back and forth between miles and kms, syncing in between, did it for me eventually!

[caroldavies071969 Graduate10 in reply to JonathanP]

Thanks Jonathan. Yes I did some toggling too as I thought that may help to put things right. I also charged my watch via my laptop while logged into Connect as I thought that may also help. The good news is, it now works just as I hoped it would, I don't know what actually fixed it but it doesn't matter as it works!

I've done my first 10k this morning and it was fab to be able to check my pace and average pace throughout to keep with where I wanted to be. I ended up doing better than expected so are very happy 😀

[JonathanP Graduate10 in reply to caroldavies071969]

Great and well done for this morning! 😀