Miles vs steps not showing consistent data

[MarieEM]

Not sure how the miles calculated per steps thing works but a few times now I've had a certain number of steps show 5 miles and then a few days later I surpassed that number of steps but didn't hit the 5 mile goal. This has happened more than once. Can someone explain how I would hit 5 miles one day then take more steps than that original day another day and be under the 5 mile goal? TIA!

[SteveH]

Assuming that your One is doing the tracking (rather than using a phone's GPS) then the distance is calculated by multiplying your step count by your stride length.

However, one possible cause of confusion is that it uses 2 stride lengths. One for when it thinks you were walking and one where it thinks you were running. It's not clear how or when it switches between the two.

It's possible that on one or both of the days it was using a combination of running and walking strides leading to these strange results.