Steps x Avg step length < Distance???
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Quite consistently I think that the number of steps reported for a run is way too low.
Yesterday I did a 30km run. In the app the report counts:Distance: 30.13 km
Steps: 21800
Avg. step length: 127 cmBut…
21800 * 127 = 27.69 km
So where did almost 10% of my run go? Did I actually make more steps? Longer steps? A normal rounding error? Did I fly 10% of the distance?
Can someone please explain this?
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@gkaempfer said in Steps x Avg step length < Distance???:
Did I fly 10% of the distance?
Can someone please explain this?
It would be cool to think that, like Red Bull, Suunto gives you wings!
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Interesting, could it be that step lenght is measured with the Movement-Sensor (don’t know the correct word) and distance with GPS?
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@VoiGAS I assume that the issue is something like that. However, under the assumption that GPS is accurate, especially multi band which I used and is supposed to be very accurate, I would think that step count could probably be corrected by a better algorithm (assuming occasional measurements would miss a step, measure double air time or some other artifact).
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@gkaempfer said in Steps x Avg step length < Distance???:
Quite consistently I think that the number of steps reported for a run is way too low.
Yesterday I did a 30km run. In the app the report counts:Distance: 30.13 km
Steps: 21800
Avg. step length: 127 cmBut…
21800 * 127 = 27.69 km
So where did almost 10% of my run go? Did I actually make more steps? Longer steps? A normal rounding error? Did I fly 10% of the distance?
Can someone please explain this?
According to my last activity data, Race 2:
Distance: 9.02 km.
Steps: 8736
Avg.step length: 101 cm8736 * 101 = 8.823 km
Same activity, Race S:
Distance: 9.08 km.
Steps: 8743
Avg.step length: 103cm8743 * 103 = 9.005 km.
WOW.
Maybe this is also related to my “Race 2” cutting distances isssue.
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