Originally Posted by
smarkinson
I recorded all these as separate rides for ease of comparison. 1 ride there, 5 rides for the hill up and down and 1 ride home for a total of 7 rides.
On Strava (and Garmin) the total elevation gain for the ride to the hill was 135m.
The 5 hill repeats were each either 103 or 104m so not much variation there.
The ride home was a total elevation gain of 196m.
The next step was to use the Strava elevation correction on each ride.
For the hills the Strava elevation correction consistently gave 101m (versus 103-104 for the Garmin altimeter).
For the ride to the hill the elevation correction gave 92m (versus 135 for the Garmin).
For the ride back home the elevation correction gave 157m (versus 196 for the Garmin).
So there is a bit of a difference for the rides to and from the hill so I wanted to figure out what was the reason for this. .
Wow, quite an endeavor! I'm troubled or confused by the ride data to vs from the hill.
The ride to the hill is -135m? The ride back home from the hill therefore should be +135m? Or you have no idea which of any of these figures is correct? The troubling part is evidently depending on what you look at the range is from 92m to 196m?
Also curious, did you ever also try Garmin's elevation correction available by enabling in Connect?