Strange 945 treadmill Issue

Triathlon Forum
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Hi

The last two times I have run indoors I have had issues with my Garmin 945

Previously ran 10k on a treadmill over about 50 minutes. Garmin recorded it as 17km. Ok, needs recal but never that much. Saved and calibrated

Today got on again and ran for about ten minutes noticed the time was ten minutes but pace was —— and distance zero

I thought I had not turned it on but I had

It uploaded the time and cals to strava no distance

Strange

So I did it again and ran for five minutes. Same issue

I was wearing an hrm tri today and not the other time

Any ideas? Is the pace detector In the watch shot? I thought I’d check to see if there is anything to do before I send it back

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My Fenix 5 does the same thing on my home treadmill, but for some reason was closer when I was at the Y on some newer models. I have no idea why that is, but whenever I do treadmill stuff I always focus on total time and HR or PE. Who knows what the actual mileage you ran is. Even the treadmill could be wrong.

I think the only way to get an accurate gauge of a treadmill, in terms of distance or speed, would be to get a foot pod.

or fork out another car payment for a Woodway (:

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My Fenix 5 does the same thing on my home treadmill, but for some reason was closer when I was at the Y on some newer models. I have no idea why that is, but whenever I do treadmill stuff I always focus on total time and HR or PE. Who knows what the actual mileage you ran is. Even the treadmill could be wrong.

I think the only way to get an accurate gauge of a treadmill, in terms of distance or speed, would be to get a foot pod.

or fork out another car payment for a Woodway (:

I get that it’s not always accurate and I need to calibrate but zero I think means something is broken

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I was also unsuccessful at recalibrating…but i do get numbers (about 20% off)
.

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yeah maybe you’re right as long as you were on the correct setting, try it again and see. I haven’t had it say zero, but I have had it think I was doing a 20 min mile pace when I was closer to 7.

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Yep thanks guys. I was wondering if he hrm tri had something to do with it but nah I guess not

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Did you have it on “Run” instead of “Treadmill”?

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Turn it off, and then on again. Seriously. I laughed when I realized how stupid it is that we still have to do that, but the not reading pace has happened to me a few times (on the bike too) and the off and on again resets everything.

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Did you have it on “Run” instead of “Treadmill”?

No. Good q tho. I made sure

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Turn it off, and then on again. Seriously. I laughed when I realized how stupid it is that we still have to do that, but the not reading pace has happened to me a few times (on the bike too) and the off and on again resets everything.

Ok cycled it. Will report back after I try

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Garmin watches have never worked for me on the treadmill. I am not making this up but ever since they introduced then accelerometer based thing, every garmin watch has shown a slower pace as I increase the speed.

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That’s hardly surprising as stride length usually changes as a result of pace. If the pace is related to a particular speed, when you increase the treadmill speed the Garmin likely sees no difference unless you increase stride rate. The treadmill might be going faster. Your stride length has probably increased. But your stride rate is still the same.

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My Fenix 5 is fully useless on the treadmill. Not accurate at the gym and not at home.

I now always run on Zwift via a Stryd footpod at the gym and the smart data transfer from my treadmill at home and have all data in details