Anyone having issues picking up GPS with their Garmin?

[Lizcanrun]

I went for a run yesterday and felt like I was trotting along quite quickly. My watch told me otherwise, in fact I was going much slower than usual. I was a bit confused. When I got home and synced up there was no map with my run. I did start before GPS was found, because it's been taking ages recently, but it normally picks it up at some point. Any thoughts?

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Sorry you had problems, mine was fine on a walk today. I have started before syncing and as you say it usually catches up. Sometimes there is a blip, according to garmin I ran a super fast km last week but as it’s a usual segment I knew I’d only covered 900m, earlier this week it took a couple of hrs to sync but then the data came up fine. How is the data on the actual watch? Is it correct or just the synced data and map?

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Grannyhugs]

I think it's been a bit off. Told me it took 10 mins to run a flat km the other day! I went in the garden earlier and it synced to GPS in about 2 secs, so hopefully it's fixed. 🤞

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I have had the same happening a couple of runs ago. I started without the GPS locking and I ran 500 or 600 meters less according to my watch then I actually did (always running the same route paid off) plus my map showed me in a totally different part of town. It was as if a black hole had swallowed me.

I now turn my watch off and on before I leave the house and when I have walked I put on the running app on the watch and wait until the GPS locks. Only when it locked, then I start running, because otherwise I have problems.

It does sometimes take a long while before the GPS locks. Then I start fiddling with Galileo vs the other one vs nothing, turning off on again, sticking my arm in the air (nice sight). I do wonder if it all helps or just makes it take longer...

[Lizcanrun Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Entertains your neighbours at least!

[Hidden in reply to Lizcanrun]

😂