I recently started using a Garmin foot pod and heart rate strap with my Forerunner 935. The data seems more accurate now, but looks very different in Strava and Garmin connect. Instead of appearing a relatively straight line with numerous small spikes, the the lines for cadence and heart rate are now very boxy:
Cadence:
http://tinypic.com/r/2l93zwz/9
Heart rate:
http://tinypic.com/r/30bo4sk/9
Is there a reason for this? Is this just a more accurately reflection of the data? Thanks for the help.
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Export it, and pull the raw data from the CSV and punch it into Excel. See what it looks like.
Almost seems as if Garmin is using less of the data than the Strava.
I don't even bother with those online stats... I just do monthly exports into Excel. This way I can do way more calcs/graphs than on these useless websites.
I don't use Strava, so I can't comment on the graphs other than to say that cadence is not typically measured in "feet". That looks like an elevation graph.
SPM -> Feet? wrote:
I don't use Strava, so I can't comment on the graphs other than to say that cadence is not typically measured in "feet". That looks like an elevation graph.
The cadence data is on top of the elevation data in the background, that's why you see the feet on the left hand side there.
Here's the cadence data from this morning's 2 mile cooldown on a flat stretch of road. I have a pretty consistent stride, but is it possible for me the have a stretch where my cadence is THIS steady? This is using a Forerunner 935 with the Garmin Foot Pod.
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Looks like we have a "hobbyjogger" thread here
HobbyJoggerSpotted wrote:
Looks like we have a "hobbyjogger" thread here
You responded to a day old thread to label other posters "hobby jogger?" What a f*g.
I took a look at the raw data from one of my runs with the Garmin footpod, and all of the cadence values are whole numbers. The actual values are half of what is displayed in Garmin Connect. In other words, I see 90, 91, 92, etc. in the raw data. So Garmin is multiplying the raw value by 2 to give you the standard Steps Per Minute.
I can also look at the same data in SportTracks, and I see that the SportTracks graph interpolates values between the readings, so it gives the appearance of being more accurate, but those fractional values are not coming from the footpod.
The Garmin graph is an accurate representation of the raw data from the footpod, and any fractional values you see when viewing the data in other software are the result of interpolation.