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Hit mile 50 on a 30 mile run this weekend and realized my watch was lying to me
I've been training for a half marathon and my Garmin kept saying I was hitting perfect splits. Then I ran a route I know is exactly 5 miles according to Google Maps and my watch said 4.3. Turns out I've been running way faster than I thought for 2 months. Has anyone else caught their fitness tracker fudging numbers like that?
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emmag404mo ago
My friend Sarah had the exact same thing happen with her Apple Watch. She was training for a 10k and felt like a total superhero because her watch said she was crushing her pace every single run. Then she did a local race that had mile markers and she finished way under her predicted time because the course was measured properly, not by her watch. She actually ended up running a 5k PR by like two minutes because she thought she was going slower than she really was.
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logan_thomas874mo ago
Her watch basically gaslit her into being faster.
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