Remember when I posted how my Garmin registered longer mileage than usual on my run home? I finally put it into Garmin Connect to try to understand why. And this is TOTALLY weird!
So this is my usual run home… Pretty straight forward, right? I run down 19th st, and though I’m not really running around on the street, but on sidewalks instead, I forgive the Garmin for not knowing that. I always go down the same route for 2 reasons: I like having something concrete to compare my runs against, and I found out the hard way that not all streets leading up to Constitution Av have a crossing light.
Now this is what it THINKS I ran last Monday. WTF? Those gray boxes I’m running zigzag on? Those are buildings, people, not parks. This is downtown DC, after all. My Garmin thinks I can cross walls. No wonder it registered an extra 0.12 miles!
The only explanation? My Garmin thinks I’m a drunk.
Has anyone ever had this happen to them before? What kind of wonky satellite signal was it picking up??
Hahaha! No solutions, but that second map made me laugh 🙂 Good luck, I hope you can get it resolved!
I just hope it doesn’t happen again! Seriously, I’m running in a straight line, even if signal was spotty, it would assume I went straight, not in zigzag, right?
My Garmin has me zigzagging too sometimes, but never quite that bad. Maybe it has a hard time maintaining a satellite connection with all the tall buildings?
I hadn’t had issues before… DC buildings are actually fairly short (maximum of 12 or 13 floors) since nothing can be taller than the Capitol.
I just hate that it assumed I went crazy zigzagging across building walls!
Whoa… definitely never had that one happen! How weird. Let us know what you find out!
It was a first time for me too… Hopefully during my run home today, my Garmin will follow…
*smile* Your Garmin just thinks you’re Super Woman! .. Well, either that or you were chasing the heck out of a bunny. 😀
~Naomi
Does that mean that when it finally started recording on a straight line it assumed I caught the bunny?
HA! Your Garmin thinks you’re a drunk! LOL.
I have no help, but your post made me laugh. I’m sure that’s the whole reason you wrote it though, right? 🙂
Glad to know my funny self finally came across in my writing — I usually sound totally boring when I write, I hate it!
The post was a combo of frustration (WTF, Garmin!) and a joke, because seriously, what the hell did it think I was doing to give me the zigzag runs like that?
I have only had that happen when I was walking in Chicago. I think it happened because I was turning it off and on a lot and because the tall buildings make it harder to get a signal.
Are you sure that isn’t really the route you took? LOL!
I wonder if that’s what it was, the weird satellite signals — but then why didn’t it do that before? (Not that I want it to do it all the time, but it should at least be consistent!)
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