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Same walk but 1 km difference

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‎04-03-2019 05:17

‎04-03-2019 05:17

I’m using my one year old plus Ionic and my friend uses his 6 weeks old Charge 2. We have walked side by side over exactly the same distance in fact I have probably walked roughly 300 steps more. We both synced and we have pretty much the same amount of steps but he is over 1 km. Same map in exercise tab. And yes he is a male and yes he walked on the outer circle but inches from me and yes he has a longer stride but 1km over, how? Something is not right weather with mine Ionic or his Charge. But mine is been pretty accurate so far. We have ( well according to my watch walked just under 4 km whereas his shows nearly 5 km. And last week we did a longer hike. I did nearly 32 km and overlapped him by at least 6-7 km and when we synced the watches surprise surprise he was just 30 or 31 km. It’s so annoying as I did work really hard for my 40000 steps and he got less steps but almost the same distance. Not fear as we are always competing against each other. 

And in a few days we are doing 35 km hike but he will end up with a longer distance than me again. 😔

Sorry for a bit of rage 🙈😂

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‎04-03-2019 06:52

‎04-03-2019 06:52

Distance makes sense only when you use GPS. Step-based distance uses stride length so if your friend has a different length of stride you will end up with different distance, too. It's just error-prone estimate of what probably you walked. The stride will change depending on how fast you walk, whether you walk up or down the hill, maybe you are walking on the surface that requires you to change stride, too. Walking side by side, even stepping same way if there's any difference in the stride length between you and your friend you will get different results. For very long distance I guess average still will give you not too bad distance measure but differences you asking about are exactly coming from the fact that it is an estimate and nothing can really be done about it but using GPS.

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