How to understand PACE on RUN exercise

[jakeroo]

Hi all, maybe its my brain drain, but just bought the fitbit3. No complaints except the reason i bought it was to see what pace i'm running at when i;'m doing 5k runs. I tried it today on a treadmill (ok the treadmill will give me most of what i want to know, but i was just trying it out, normally i would be running the 5k out in a park etc).. I chose EXERCISE/RUN, DISTANCE 5K. and kicked start button. 

I was looking at the PACE and its all over the place. I was running at 5.7k (which is just a walk to warm up basically) and the fitbit PACE is stating 11.30 or something like this?? what is that supposed to be? Then when i put the treadmill up to 13.5 k, the PACE on fitbit was stating something like 6.8 ?? what the hell is that? What am i doing wrong here folks, and its not Average pace screen i'm looking at, its the first screen that states PACE ??? I want the fitbit to be showing me exactly what KPH i am running at..thanks

[JohnnyRow]

Do you have "Run" set to use phone's GPS?

[jakeroo]

hi yes its set to the phone GPS, does its connecting thing when i choose start...

[JohnnyRow]

So your GPS just sees you in one place.  For all the GPS knows, you are sitting in a rocking chair.

Or you could go for a car ride with GPS turned on, and it might say you are running one minute per mile.

[jakeroo]

so should i turn the GPS off and then it may give me my actual correct speed of running?

[JohnnyRow]

Or try "Treadmill" so you can leave GPS on for running.

[jakeroo]

will give it a shot over weekend so thanks. 

But do you know what the figures mean on the "pace" while running?> . 

i.e. i;m running at 5.7k kph on the running machine, and my pace is stating a figure of 11.30 or something like it, what does this 11.30 mean? It must be something like "it will take you 11.30 minutes to complete 1k at this pace? is that it?  But if so what a stupid way to express your speed, that is what i want to see on the watch, what speed/ie pace am i running at, i..e 5.7kph should be on the watch, not 11.30 whatever the **ahem** that is,,,, Why have they made this part of the device so complicated when people just want to know what speed they are running at.......

thanks though

[JohnnyRow]

I haven't used that feature enough to know.

But back when I was a runner, I was always thinking of my pace in terms of minutes per mile, not miles/hour.

Watch a track meet on TV. I never have heard an announcer talk of their speed in miles (or km) per hour.  They always give splits in time per lap or per mile/km; never heard a split of "he was going 7.6 miles per hour that lap".

Have you ever seen results of a 10K race listed by km/hr instead of by finishing time?

[jakeroo]

ok i get you....But where i;m coming from is if i am running 5k and i want to do it in 30 mins,  i have to run at 10kph, so if i'm looking at my watch, i want to see it saying 10kph at all times (in ideal pace world), so if it says 9.52 kph, i know i have to speed up and get back up to 10kph to keep my timing right to finish at 30mins, if you get me. Its surely the easiest way to know if you should speed up or even slow down, i..e just to show me my speed, not my rate per kilometer....

but i dont think its going to show me that going by what you;ve said...I have to work out (somehow ) what the reading would be to reflect more or less a pace of 10kph....

thanks for your advice mate