Ambit3 distance inaccuracies

pelo2

Hi everyone, there is a feature of my Ambit3 sport that starts to annoy me. !
As you can see in the image I did 5k on the track yesterday (I recorded them doing a simple lap during the activity).
At the end of the 5k I paused the watch and started walking around the track to recover. I did re-started the activity twice (one by error) and run some more kms.
The result is what you can see in the image: I have two straight lines in my activity where I was walking around half of the track. This also normally screws my time and makes me look faster than what I am.

Is there a setting to change in order to make my Ambit not behave in this way?

Thanks to all those who will be willing to help!
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isazi

This seems pretty normal to be honest. If you don’t want this, end the activity. Pause is intended to have a break, but if you move somewhere else in the meanwhile you end up with a straight connection between the last and current point.

pelo2

@isazi said in Ambit3 distance inaccuracies:

This seems pretty normal to be honest. If you don’t want this, end the activity. Pause is intended to have a break, but if you move somewhere else in the meanwhile you end up with a straight connection between the last and current point.

It may seems pretty normal but actually the speed is completely useless since if you travel 1km your watch will suppose you travelled this distance in a matter of seconds and it becomes an issue with Strava as you turn out having totally fake avg speed in certain parts of your activity. As far as I know Suunto is the only watch with this behaviour and I was trying to figure out if there is a setting that could be changed in order to correct this behaviour.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

That is not correct.

If you have the watch paused, or even did 1 pause, Strava will show what your watch recorded as of summaries etc.
Those straight lines are just “stiches” from pause to next start. Only visually if affects.

pelo2

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Ambit3 distance inaccuracies:

That is not correct.

If you have the watch paused, or even did 1 pause, Strava will show what your watch recorded as of summaries etc.

Those straight lines are just “stiches” from pause to next start. Only visually if affects.

It happened to me that I took Crowns in Strava (Record for a segment among all users) because I was pausing the watch and forgetting to restart it for a while. In some segments I averaged 1’ for km while running for this issue and I was flagged as a result of this.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@pelo2 If I dont have the activity data I cannot say why. But pausing aint the reason. GPS failure / wrong battery mode for GPS can be.

cosme.costa

@pelo2 I never had this behaviour in Starva and I also have forgotten to un-pause the watch several times. In the track you see an straight line but all the metrics are correct.
BTW, what are the SA metrics?
Strava is what it is, not very reliable, not in positioning not in time. I mean, I am in some segments that I haven’t run, I’ve passed close by but not following the segment, in others I have run them with a friend and we have differences of 5/10 seconds in the same segment when the time should be the same. Don’t get me wrong, I use Strava and it is fun to compete for some segments, but considering what Strava really is.