Steps and miles not counting

[MikeyT820]

Hey y'all, I recently started wearing my fitbit to play ultimate frisbee. At the end of the game it will have logged my miles run and mapped my movement, but the workout will register with zero steps. It looks like the total does get included in my steps for the day, so I'd been ignoring it.

But today I went for a run and my steps were counted, and the miles are logged in the exercise, but my day total is 2.5 miles lower than the length of the run. Has anyone else run into this?

[JohnnyRow]

These issues might depend on how you are tracking the activities: just letting them happen as they might, using the Exercise app - which exercise choices?, . . .

[MikeyT820]

I track both on my Charge 5 as "Outdoor Workout"

[JohnnyRow · Accepted solution]

"Outdoor Workout" is a bit of an anomaly, at least to me.  I've never seen it clearly defined.  It lets you get a GPS map but I think your distance does not get added to daily distance for some reason, in that sense similar to biking.  It might be that it's thinking that you might be using it for something like skiing where distance might be interesting, but is not really comparable to distance walked or run for daily mileage.  And I'm not sure about whether steps get added to daily step total.

For the run I would just choose 'Run' and make sure you have GPS turned on if you want that.

For ultimate frisbee, I guess you could go with Run also.