Thug Posted November 14, 2006 Share I have the S625x which comes with a foot pod to track distance and I also use it when I ride my MTB. Apart from the bling carbon look, the 725x is exactly the same watch. I use the watch for Adventure Racing purely to record heart rate and altitude changes and I neither wear the foot pod for the hiking / trail running sections nor do I utilise the speed/distance recording options for the MTB legs, yet, and this is were my confusion arises. After downloading the resulting exercise, be it a short sprint race or a 135k race like last weekend, the watch has recorded "distance" as if I had set it up to record both the running and biking legs. Note that the watch is setup in running mode as standard and if I wantto record distance on the MTB, I then change it over (which I never didthis past weekend). Of the 135k's, 40k's was the hiking/trail running and 80k's the MTB leg, the balance, 15k's was paddling in Katse Dam, so how does the watch record 151 k's ?? Does it somehow still pick up the revolutions from the Speed Sensor and if so, why is there a difference of 71k's? Has anyone else experienced this oddity ? Maybe its time to get a Suunto edit: added the screen shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantani Posted November 14, 2006 Share Hmmmm... Do you think you could ask one question at a time? Have no answers for you except that I have seen some impressive things from Suunto, happen to know Mr Suunto. As soon as I got the bucks I am going that route! I beleive there will be a Suunto stand at the 94.7 expo, stop by the stand, the guy is very friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted November 14, 2006 Share ...stick to one sport you freak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT1 Posted November 14, 2006 Share Marius, to be fair, he did say he was an oddity in the topic header... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted November 14, 2006 Share ...stick to one sport you freak! Life's to short for one sport.......... Go Multi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikemonster Posted November 14, 2006 Share Thug....erm, Mr Thug....erm, wait.... Oddball My guess would be that your Polar was picking up signals from somebody else's bike. And foot. Not a great theory, but it's just a guess. Had you chosen a "mode" (hold down bottom right button while HR is displayed, i.e., after first press of Big Red Button) that did not record running or data or bike data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyolo Posted November 14, 2006 Share Ground control to Major Tom .....oh sorry, wrong "Oddity" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted November 14, 2006 Share Thug....erm' date=' Mr Thug....erm, wait.... Oddball My guess would be that your Polar was picking up signals from somebody else's bike. And foot. Not a great theory, but it's just a guess. Had you chosen a "mode" (hold down bottom right button while HR is displayed, i.e., after first press of Big Red Button) that did not record running or data or bike data?[/quote'] Nope, I was the only one in the team wearing a Polar and The speed recording function was On, in running mode, which makes it more of a conundrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted November 14, 2006 Share Contact Polar on 011 805 1028. Let us know what they have to say. They do have software bugs as well. Other day I picked up a bug for them on the PC Software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted November 14, 2006 Share I spoke to one of the techies and his explanation is that the watch is picking up intereference. But I'm not really happy with that so I've emailed Harald ! Will let you know what the boss man says ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantc Posted November 14, 2006 Share Are you sure you weren't wearing a "bug" somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat-i Posted November 14, 2006 Share Maybe its time to get a Suunto any old excuse to get a suunto will do.get yourself one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AfreekduSoet Posted November 15, 2006 Share Thugster, sell me your pod!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted November 20, 2006 Share All righty, I've had some feedback from Polar and this is what Harald says : Based on your raw data file the speed measurement was active. Unfortunately the data file does not distinguish between cycling speed or running speed. The speed sensor and the S1 Foot Pod are using the transmission code. This is why you have to select the specific speed mode; bike or run. I can only presume that as your unit was in the running speed mode and it was picking up the bike speed sensor. This was the reason for the speed readings. The error in distance could then be explained by the different algorithms use to calculate the run speed or bike speed. Next time I'll just switch off the speed sensor ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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