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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
I'm pretty sure that elevation is through a barometer of some sort. You get elevation data indoors when there are no GPS signals present.
I do have smoothing on but the elevation data is ridiculous, 3000' of elevation change on a 5 mi route where the biggest hill is maybe 100' x4
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Something is wrong with your watch. It should not be that bad. Here more info on the 305 by the DC Rainmaker guy who is pretty much the GPS watch review guru on the net:
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It’s pretty amazing to look at total ascent/decent, which includes the tons of times you go up and down small hills. Beware though that it’s best to use some of the altitude correction features available in software such as Sports Tracks as the native altitude sensors within the device are a bit ‘liberal’ due to using GPS elevation instead of a barometric altimeter. So sometimes it’s a bit off.
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The link is here:
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2007/11/review-of-garmin-forerunner-305.html
Back to tracking software. The above article is fairly old but it also mentions
Sport Tracks for tracking activities with the DC Rainmaker guy appears to use. Looks pretty solid.
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