Hello,
I wasn't sure where to post this but I decided to try it here.
Anyway I have been running lately with one of my friends who has an Android phone + a Samsung Galaxy Active watch. I use and Apple Watch and an iPhone and we both used Runtastic. We noticed that at the end of the run I have around 400m more on a 6km run. Then I decided to do some analysis and testing because I wasn't sure if Runtastic was the cause of this and went for a run yesterday with the following:
Apple Workout app on the watch - ended with 7.29km
Runtastic app on the phone - ended up with 7.56km
Strava app on the phone - ended up with 7.6km
I noticed that the phone apps are a lot bouncier. I know the Watch applies some kind of intelligence to smooth this out, but are the phone screenshots looking "normal"? Or is it a bit too irregular? I know this is "only" about a 5% difference, but it is a bit annoying because I am not sure what is showing the correct distance!
Any ideas or tips on how to get better accuracy? My next plan is to find a marked 1km track or something like that to try and see which device is measuring correctly.
Thanks!
I wasn't sure where to post this but I decided to try it here.
Anyway I have been running lately with one of my friends who has an Android phone + a Samsung Galaxy Active watch. I use and Apple Watch and an iPhone and we both used Runtastic. We noticed that at the end of the run I have around 400m more on a 6km run. Then I decided to do some analysis and testing because I wasn't sure if Runtastic was the cause of this and went for a run yesterday with the following:
Apple Workout app on the watch - ended with 7.29km
Runtastic app on the phone - ended up with 7.56km
Strava app on the phone - ended up with 7.6km
I noticed that the phone apps are a lot bouncier. I know the Watch applies some kind of intelligence to smooth this out, but are the phone screenshots looking "normal"? Or is it a bit too irregular? I know this is "only" about a 5% difference, but it is a bit annoying because I am not sure what is showing the correct distance!
Any ideas or tips on how to get better accuracy? My next plan is to find a marked 1km track or something like that to try and see which device is measuring correctly.
Thanks!