Ionic PACE measurement to MPH

[Dtalitho]

Does anyone know how to change PACE measurement to MPH? That is the way I have always done it before!

THANKS!

[Julia_G]

It will tell you how many minutes per mile, rather than mph. That is how runners/ athletes tend to calculate it, and as it is meant to be a fitness watch I guess that is why they did it that way.

You can calculate mph by dividing your minutes per mile pace by 60 (so a 4 minute mile -- that's fast!-- is 15 miles per hour.

You will need to do the calculation yourself.  You cannot currently display it in MPH.  If you would prefer to display it that way, you could add your suggestion to the feature suggestion forum where others can vote for or comment on your suggestion.

** Tip: be sure to dona search first in case someone else has already suggested your idea.

[Dtalitho]

I feel so silly, but I do not understand. I walked faster and further today and my pace is lower. that makes no sense to me. I am just restarting walking so I only did a mile yesterday and 1.4 miles today. 

with a 22.47 pace and 1.4miles, how do I calculate that? It was 33 minutes. My other app gave me 2.8 speed, and i want to improve, but I did not want to use 2 app.

FIRST Fitbit out of 5 that did this. APPRECIATE the help!

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

I believe Julia's formula meant to be 60 divided by Pace in minutes equals MPH.  For your 22.47 Pace, that would be 60 divided by 22.47 equals 2.67 MPH.

You say you "walked faster today and my pace is lower made no sense to you".  The faster you walk, the LOWER the pace because the faster you walk requires LESS minutes per mile.

Let's assume your Pace was 22.00 (rather than 22.47), then your MPH would be 60 divided by 22.00 equals 2.73 MPH.

[bbarrera]

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@Dtalitho wrote:

with a 22.47 pace and 1.4miles, how do I calculate that? It was 33 minutes. My other app gave me 2.8 speed, and i want to improve, but I did not want to use 2 app.

FIRST Fitbit out of 5 that did this. APPRECIATE the help!

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22 min and 47 seconds per mile? First you need to convert to decimal:

22 + 47/60 = 22.7833 minutes/mile

Then convert to MPH:

60/22.7833 = 2.63mph

Or all at once:

60 / (22 + 47/60) = 2.63mph

using 1.4 miles in 33 minutes gives:

1.4 / ( 33 / 60 ) = 2.55mph

(you should get same result as above, if you use more precise distance and time)

[Dtalitho]

Thank you! I confess the way it shows 22’47” had me very confused. This helped

[bbarrera]

@Dtalitho Happy to help. You might want to undo the accepted solution because his math is wrong, and that will confuse other people. 

[enjuneer]

That Fitbit customers would even have to ask such an inane question is incredible. Any device with the computing power to run the Fitbit app has far more than enough power to allow the CUSTOMER to choose the rate units, be that Kilometers/hour, Miles/hour, meters/sec, feet/sec or this ridiculous frustrating only choice Fitbit coders give called pace.

Come on Fitbit, show some respect for your customers and please give us choices we want instead of saddling those of who paid you good money, with units as ridiculous as thing your hardheaded management calls “Pace” with no other way to get our velocities into units we relate to using a scratchpad and a hand calculator.

[enjuneer]

Why, for crying out loud, would we Fitbit customers have to divide any Fitbit app number manually by any other number to get pace, velocity, speed, mass ete etc to any common units we are familiar with using?

We are the Fitbit customer, pace has been an ongoing pain in the majority of Fitbit paying customers several years now. We didn’t buy into Fitbit because we wanted to practice remedial math. 

Come on Fitbit. Fix your app so your good paying customers don’t have to horse around with 3rd grade math doing what your app should of been doing since the first day it was released to your customers