Originally Posted by
RideCO
Something not quite right here with sporttracks and data smoothing. I have a new 305 and I have been using Garmin Training Center. I just started using sporttracks, today's ride was 52 miles and according to training center elevation change was 3628ft total ascending. Sporttracks showed;
2804 with smoothing set at 20
1620 with it set to the max (300)
3175 with it set to min (1)
I just got done pouring over a topo map of the route, and the correct figure is 3650ft
Garmin 305 uses a barometric altimeter to track elevation changes, and according to the data I import into training center its very accurate, the display on the garmin I can see during a workout (for cumulative elevation change) is not so accurate.
Unless they've come up with a new training center....it sucks balls for everything....I just removed it from my PC. I rode up the west side of vail pass and TC came up with a number around 4K which isn't even in the ballpark.