Old Timey Guy wrote:
Makes sense wrote:I see the pace varying a couple minutes per mile or more. I think it's important that she keeps the pace relatively even while running across a state as exciting and Kansas.
That movescount data is very odd. If you place your cursor over the graph on those flat sections, her pace is exactly the same for the whole section. There's not a runner alive who can maintain the exact same pace to the second for a period of a mile. Then you add in elevation changes.
This is very strange for sure. I'm not sure you could do this even on a bike or in a car?
The data is not odd. It just that it looks odd visually because of the scale. On 10/1/17, Mimi slows down to a fast walk pace (5.4-5.8 km/hr). It's not surprising that such a pace what be somewhat consistent. But the graphing program on Movescount makes it look like a straight line even though it varies. For example, from split time 5:40'36.0 to 5:48'50.0, Movescount represents the speed as 5.8 km/hr, but the real speed is:
(34.93km - 34.15km) * 60 / 8.25 = ~5.672 km/hr. Other split times show 5.72 km/hr walking pace and 5.65 km/hr walking pace with various slow downs in between. The fact that Movescount only plots data every 26 seconds or so coupled with the fact that the graph rounds to the nearest 0.4 km/hr makes it look like a straight line.