{"id":5535,"date":"2014-06-28T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2014-06-28T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T03:09:31","slug":"garmin-vs-phone-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2014\/garmin-vs-phone-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin vs Phone GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered about the accuracy of my phone&#8217;s GPS and that of my Garmin Forerunner 205. Could they be equally good at tracking my workouts? I&#8217;ve used both before when I was doing interval workouts as Strava doesn&#8217;t allow for split timing. You could setup segments in Strava, but that&#8217;s a lot of work and would require fairly precise running. I never took the time to compare the data from those workouts. I think I felt that the amount of stopping and small movements wouldn&#8217;t be an accurate gauge.<\/p>\n<p>On this mornings run I wore my Garmin and had the phone inside of the Chariot as I pushed the two kiddos on an 8.4 mile run. I had grabbed my Garmin because some little 15 month boy likes to hide things and had hidden my watch. I needed to protect my watch tan line (vanity&#8230;). The Garmin covers the area and now is quite useful!<\/p>\n<p>Just for accuracy sake, I use a Garmin Forerunner 205 and have the LG Optimus X and was using the Strava app (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2014\/best-runningcycling-app-strava\/\">discussed yesterday<\/a>). I pulled the data from my Garmin into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymile.com\/people\/crossn81\/entries\/29331043\">Dailymile<\/a>. Not 100% sure why I did it there instead of RunningAhead which is where I tend to log most of my workouts, but I assume that the website won&#8217;t matter too much for this analysis.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Garmin<\/td>\n<td>Strava<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Distance<\/td>\n<td>8.4<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Time<\/td>\n<td>1:27<\/td>\n<td>1:20:44*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Calories**<\/td>\n<td>910<\/td>\n<td>1,568<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elevation***<\/td>\n<td>1,784<\/td>\n<td>226<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*Strava will differentiate between moving time and total time. Elapsed (total time) was 1:27:19. Crazy that the Chariot was stopped for 7 minutes, but we did stop for water a few times and a bathroom break for the 3.5 year old!<\/p>\n<p>** This is probably not a device measurement but a website one.<\/p>\n<p>*** This could be a reporting discrepancy&#8230; My guess is Dailymile is reporting total climb and Strava reports net gain or loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot from the Dailymile entry followed by Strava&#8217;s &#8220;embed on blog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6-28morningrundailymile.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6-28morningrundailymile.jpg?resize=300%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"6-28morningrundailymile\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6-28morningrundailymile.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/6-28morningrundailymile.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/159087790\/embed\/ddafa9c3e266a2a76bf25486edd637968934c065\" width=\"425\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered about the accuracy of my phone&#8217;s GPS and that of my Garmin Forerunner 205. Could they be equally good at tracking my workouts? I&#8217;ve used both before when I was doing interval workouts as Strava doesn&#8217;t allow for split timing. You could setup segments in Strava, but that&#8217;s a lot of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-comments","category-information"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-1rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/garmin-205-software\/","url_meta":{"origin":5535,"position":0},"title":"Garmin 205: Software","author":"crossn81","date":"January 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I mentioned that I've used a couple programs to analyze my Garmin data. 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I saw the 205 for about $150 around Christmas and the 405\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Equipment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Equipment","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/equipment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=crossinator-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000CSQJ8C","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":171,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/garmin-205-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":5535,"position":3},"title":"Garmin 205: Mapping","author":"crossn81","date":"January 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Garmin is great for mapping! While you are running it creates a map that can be used to get yourself home - should you get lost! Luckily, I haven't had to use this feature yet! 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