Use gps for distance instead of steps

[bland1]

Have a problem with my watch calculating distance.

It’s winter so I’m skating a lot on a 7.8km skateway and I choose outdoor walk or run so I get gps tracking and lots of other data. Problem is for distance it’s using my step counter. Since I’m skating it only calculates about half the distance. If I use other workout or skating sport the gps is not on to track my path.

Is there a setting I can switch so it uses my gps for a true distance instead?

 

[oeagleo]

Are you sure it's not using the GPS for an outdoor activity? Seems to me, (and I know that with my Garmin Fenix) that any outdoor activity should use GPS for distance, and speed also, for that matter. Hopefully, someone with a lot more knowledge about this will chime in.

 

[bland1]

With the skateway being a set distance it’s easy to calculate. I did over 30km yesterday’s. The distance for my activity is showing 18km’s, which falls in line with my step counter.

I’m going to try using outdoor cycle next time to see if it uses the gps instead of the step counter for distance.

 

[jz0309]

With the skateway being a set distance it’s easy to calculate. I did over 30km yesterday’s. The distance for my activity is showing 18km’s, which falls in line with my step counter.

I’m going to try using outdoor cycle next time to see if it uses the gps instead of the step counter for distance.

Outdoor Cycle does use GPS, on your phone, activity app, go to workout section and tap on the actual workout, it does show the trail I've followed (mountain biking).
Check it for your outdoor walk ... I've done it a couple times and it does show recorded GPS data ... what series watch do you have?

 

[Ruja]

Hi guys,

Well I disagree a bit with the fact that with outdoor measurements our watch uses gps because the other day, I was running a long distance where I’ve never had problems with calculations of the distance but as I say, my workout added several series of short distances (100 meters). Always when I have had this kind of workouts (in the past, without any watch but with iPhone) I have done a specific distance where I’ve already known which distance had to run. The case is that the other day, with outdoor run activity working, the measurement wasn’t accurate at all. However, with outdoor walk activity was closer to my old iPhone measurement. I was really upset with that because till that moment, I thought that my watch was being amazing.

 

[bland1]

Back from another skate. With outdoor cycle it uses gps instead of steps taken to calculate distance.

I have series 3 gps only.