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Old 08-25-10, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Inertianinja
i would love to get an official response from Garmin on this issue.

when i do a 60+ mile ride my Edge 705 tells me i'm burning over 4,000 calories. ridiculous. why would they jack the formula up like that?
One, they don't use HR data for the calculation, which makes it less accurate than it could be. (why they don't take advantage of the HR data would be a good question.)

Two, by its nature and all the asumptions it has to make its going to be inaccurate, so I imagine they program it extremely optimistically to make people happy instead of pessimistic and pissing people off.
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