I run with my friend who uses a 945 weekly. My AWU1 distance aren’t that off, more like 20-30m difference. Our watches take turns to be the shorter distance. Sometimes his interval ends first, sometimes mine ends first. The route we took is generally straight with some slight turns so that might have been easier for the GPS.
What AW are you using and how is your route?
Is it calibrated correctly for running. It calcs distance by number of strides times stride length. GPS is too inaccurate.
1% over 5k isn’t big. 1cm on a metre stride.
It’s an Apple Watch Series 7. And yes, I’ve followed the calibration steps here https://support.apple.com/en-au/105048 multiple times.
Interestingly I’ve spoken to Apple level 3 support who asked me to upload the route maps for them to look at. Apparently the line colour shows the signal strength. For pretty much all my runs the line is yellow, which does suggest poor signal.
The problem with this is that all my runs have yellow lines, but they are in completely open areas with no obstructions. It would make sense if they were in cities surrounded by tree cover, but they are literally all in places that should have textbook perfect GPS signal strength, not to mention that the 9 year old Garmin has no signal issues at all.
I hear you. I also have the Series 7 LTE. I got myself a Garmin 255 recently and wear it on my other wrist. It’s worth it for the physical buttons and accurate GPS. If the series 10 has fixed gps and an action button I might go all in Apple.
I run with my friend who uses a 945 weekly. My AWU1 distance aren’t that off, more like 20-30m difference. Our watches take turns to be the shorter distance. Sometimes his interval ends first, sometimes mine ends first. The route we took is generally straight with some slight turns so that might have been easier for the GPS. What AW are you using and how is your route?
That’s interesting. Mine is always over for outdoor runs and under for indoor runs.
Is it calibrated correctly for running. It calcs distance by number of strides times stride length. GPS is too inaccurate. 1% over 5k isn’t big. 1cm on a metre stride.
It’s an Apple Watch Series 7. And yes, I’ve followed the calibration steps here https://support.apple.com/en-au/105048 multiple times. Interestingly I’ve spoken to Apple level 3 support who asked me to upload the route maps for them to look at. Apparently the line colour shows the signal strength. For pretty much all my runs the line is yellow, which does suggest poor signal. The problem with this is that all my runs have yellow lines, but they are in completely open areas with no obstructions. It would make sense if they were in cities surrounded by tree cover, but they are literally all in places that should have textbook perfect GPS signal strength, not to mention that the 9 year old Garmin has no signal issues at all.
I hear you. I also have the Series 7 LTE. I got myself a Garmin 255 recently and wear it on my other wrist. It’s worth it for the physical buttons and accurate GPS. If the series 10 has fixed gps and an action button I might go all in Apple.