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Old 04-30-15 | 10:55 AM
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corrado33
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Bikes: 199? Landshark Roadshark, 198? Mondonico Diamond, 1987 Panasonic DX-5000, 1987 Bianchi Limited, Univega... Chrome..., 1989 Schwinn Woodlands, Motobecane USA Record, Raleigh Tokul 2

Elevation is hard for GPSs to calculate as it requires a satellite near the horizon to be decently accurate. Honestly your 46ft elevation "change" is pretty "good" in my book.

Alternatively, some programs/computers use elevation maps during run processing (after you're done) to "calculate" the elevation. (Basically it plots your ride/run on an elevation map and just gets the elevation data from that.)

EDIT: Didn't realize the 510 had a barometer. Cool! My advice doesn't directly apply to it, but it does to devices that use GPS to find elevation.

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