garmin and strava messing up

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

fair enough might give it a go then in any case i think i think i was going rather fast there isn't wind resistance a slight issue at 400kph? don't you break your neck?
Cheers Ed

nope & nope and apparently I can actually fly on my bike, but have yet to understand how I managed to get an average speed of 443.9kph and only a maximum speed of 31.6kph! http://app.strava.com/activities/30235829. Apprently my moving time as 59seconds pretty good for something that now takes me 26 mins or so... and I did this on no less than 6 occasions!

 

[young Ed]

nope & nope and apparently I can actually fly on my bike, but have yet to understand how I managed to get an average speed of 443.9kph and only a maximum speed of 31.6kph! http://app.strava.com/activities/30235829. Apprently my moving time as 59seconds pretty good for something that now takes me 26 mins or so... and I did this on no less than 6 occasions!

not bad i say!
the speed record on a bike is a bit over 100mph and they said that was very dangerous because if he came out of the slipstream of the vehicle with a huge board in front of him it would knock him off and/or break his back or neck let alone at 200 something mph (400kph)
Cheers Ed

 

[HLaB]

Ive had Garmin Connect report a stupid top speed but GC speed chart is more realistic

 

[ColinJ]

You might be able to adjust the sampling rate of the GPS. It basically works out your position, waits a while, then works it out again, and so on. From those position readings, it calculates heading, speed, average speed and so on. The more frequently the GPS samples, the more accurate it is, but the log files it stores will get much bigger, and the GPS may even run out of memory unless it can store the data on a huge memory card. (The memory on my old GPS is strictly limited so I have to be careful not to overflow it.)

The GPS effectively considers your ride to consist of lots of straight-line segments joined together.

It might be that you were heading towards the field, then the road curved round before the GPS sampled your position again and found that you were not in the field after all!

 

[young Ed]

You might be able to adjust the sampling rate of the GPS. It basically works out your position, waits a while, then works it out again, and so on. From those position readings, it calculates heading, speed, average speed and so on. The more frequently the GPS samples, the more accurate it is, but the log files it stores will get much bigger, and the GPS may even run out of memory unless it can store the data on a huge memory card. (The memory on my old GPS is strictly limited so I have to be careful not to overflow it.)

The GPS effectively considers your ride to consist of lots of straight-line segments joined together.

It might be that you were heading towards the field, then the road curved round before the GPS sampled your position again and found that you were not in the field after all!

true the road does head towards the field and then curves away from it
i have ridden it many times with the garmin and never had a problem and rode it in reverse on the way home and it followed the road so probably satellite loss

is there a way to delete the old log files from the garmin to stop it from filling up?
Cheers Ed

 

[ColinJ]

There will be a way to clear old files out but I don't how to do it on models other than mine, so I suggest that you RTFM!

 

[young Ed]

There will be a way to clear old files out but I don't how to do it on models other than mine, so I suggest that you RTFM!

the manual is sh*t bt i shall google it!
Cheers Ed

 

[young Ed]

@ColinJ what model have you got?
Cheers Ed

 

[young Ed]

[QUOTE 2938458, member: 259"]I had weird problems (massive non-existent deviations and huge average speeds) with GPS on my Garmin 200 and on my phone yesterday and this morning. They're usually pretty reliable.

Is there a lot of sunspot activity or something?[/quote]
what is sunspot activity? sorry
Cheers Ed

 

[HLaB]

Lol it hit again last night GC says I was doing 40mph; the garmin itself reports 32.6mph, Strava reports 32.4mph, RWGPS 32.5mph; I'm guessing the latter three sources are more accurate

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

the manual is sh*t bt i shall google it!
Cheers Ed

just navigate to the device from 'my computer' or 'this pc' or whatever version of 'computer' you have and open the appropriate drive letter. file down through the folders, into Garmin, into activities and manually delete the entries. Also look in Garmin, then courses as well... done.

 

[young Ed]

just navigate to the device from 'my computer' or 'this pc' or whatever version of 'computer' you have and open the appropriate drive letter. file down through the folders, into Garmin, into activities and manually delete the entries. Also look in Garmin, then courses as well... done.

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thanks so much will try that
why do i need to save them?
Cheers Ed

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

thanks so much will try that
why do i need to save them?
Cheers Ed

you don't if you don't want to. I do keep a copy of them, but then as an IT Engineer I have seen way too many people regret deleting things and then wanting them back when they are long gone...

 

[young Ed]

you don't if you don't want to. I do keep a copy of them, but then as an IT Engineer I have seen way too many people regret deleting things and then wanting them back when they are long gone...

i will keep them because i can really but still can't see any use for them!
Cheers Ed

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

[QUOTE 2939117, member: 259"]I had the same coming home this evening.

65km/h max and a 14km commute showed up as 21km. Weird.[/quote]
we have had a solar flare hit the earth today... got an alert in the early afternoon I think it was. could be the explanation...