Mileage off

[Audmccleney]

I have had my Fitbit blaze for almost a week now and the mileage seems to be off. On the elliptical, the machine says I ran 3.0miles and the Fitbit is only saying 1.5 miles. Today, I walked outside with my mom and used the Fitbit with GPS and it only said I went 1.78 miles. My mom used map my run app with GPS and hers said 2.5. Has anyone else noticed a discrepancy in mileage?

[SunriseGirl]

Yes, when I selected walk from the exercise button, directly from the watch (waited until it connected to my phones GPS), it shorted me about 1 mile. This is a walk I do often with Map My Run and my daughter walked it with me using her charge HR but using the Track my Exercise button from the Fitbit app on her iPhone...both of those give the walk a distance of about 1mile more than the Blaze using connected GPS. Because of this it had my pace way off as well. This has been my only big disappointment with the Blaze thus far....but I really want accurate distance and pace. Have not had a chance to try it again.

[crm326]

Same situation here - off about 30% on my treadmill walk.  Very dissapointed as my flex was actaully much more accurate

[Rich_Laue]

The treadmill walk can be adjusted by setting up the stride. Please remrmber if the epeed changes, so will the stride. Also holding onto the handrails can not only cause the tracker to miss steps, but can cause injury to the user.

As for the GPS  i haven't used mine enough to comment,  but so far seems to be accurate. 

On android ypu wpuld want to set the accuracy to GPS only. 

For the elyptical this is hard for the Blaze to figure out, since this distance is a fictitious distance, based on the circumference of the wheel and how much it turns per step. Neither measurement is known by Fitbit. Then to add to the difficulty the elyptical is measuring distance when your not stepping. IE coasting, Fitbit would see this time as standing still.  Now Fitbit doesn't use your steps to figure the calories,  it goes by the HR and time. 

[crm326]

I see now the ability to adjust stride in setup - significant improvement in accuracy.

[Audmccleney]

Thanks for the advice. How to I adjust my stride setting?

[KiloLima64]

Personally if you are looking for distance accuracy I would use the equipments display readings and not a step tracker. Also since elliptical is more of a cardio workout I would also trust the final readings from the equipments display rather than an activity tracker. I use my Polar with chest strap for accurate cardio workout data. Just my 2cents.