What does the pace mean in the exercise details?

[Wrightla29]

I don't understand what the pace is measuring?  Feet adn inches?  If so, per what? Thanks for any replies!

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[prost22]

I must confess my ignorance; I don't know what "on the bend" means.  I suspect it means "on a curve" but I don't know what curve you are referring to. Email is tough to decipher sometimes, because I am not seeing what you are seeing. 

Back to your original question:

" On the bend when I chose waking activity, every kilometer  i see a number, and i don’t understand what it means"

I assume you mean 'walking activity'?

So where are you going to find this place to choose the walking activity?

 how big is the number that you see? say 100 to 150? If so, that's most likely heart rate I think.

[Shirkal11]

I’m sorry that you didn’t understand me. I mean that i see a number on the
watch itself whan
I do walking activity- every kilometer (i think). And I want to know what
the number meant. Its a number like 4.71

[prost22]

are you using an Ionic? Is this number 4.71 at the beginning or during the middle of your walk? perhaps the end of your walk?

when I choose Walk, I see Distance, pace and Elapsed time.

[Shirkal11]

Yes i see all the things you said, but every 1 kilometer (i
Think) on the watch I sew for a moment the number 1 on the top. And another
number like 4.71, and after a while a see number 2 and another number like
5.21 and so on. Every
Time The watch is vibrating

[prost22]

before choosing activity (or exercise tracking): I see the today's activity. when I swipe, I see steps, then miles, then flights of stairs, then calories, last the "active mins" (which I take to mean active minutes. That one has a lightning bolt symbol. 

I assume you are syncing your Fitbit, then looking at your dashboard?

[Shirkal11]

Thank you very much.
I was referring to the watch itself as it happens every few minutes .
Regardless of syncing with the app. it’s happening in the middle of activity

[prost22]

During your activity you see that number, 4.71. Can it be the distance you cover? 

[Shirkal11]

No no, because the number 1 referring for the distance- 1 kilometer

[prost22]

Sometimes the manual is useful, sometimes it isn't. I couldn't find the meaning of some of the symbols tracking various activities such as the one with a "lightning bolt," so I synced my Ionic and went my dashboard, which told me the "lightning bolt" meant "active minutes" for that day. 

I admit I am stumped. If that "4.71" number doesn't show up in your dashboard, I don't know what it is.

[Davdey]

This number you see is in the maps section and tells you Where in your walk
the occurrence of achieving that measurement of distance took place.

For example:
You start a walk out to a distance of one kilometer and then turn around to
return to your starting point. When you reach the one kilometer mark a
number 1 would appear on the map where you turned around. When you then
walked back to your starting point you would have a 1 at the farthest
distance from your your starting point and a 2 at your starting point along
with the zero, marking your starting point.

Hope this helps.

Davdey

[LizzyFitbit]

Hello everyone! I'm glad to see you here participating in the Community. I'm sorry for my delayed response.

@prost22 and @Davdey, thanks for sharing your insights and helping our users.

@GinaRaeSmullen, may I know if the information provided above work for you? If not, please share more details about your inquiry so we can continue helping you.

@Shirkal11, thanks for the details provided and let me clarify that the 1 and 2 will represent your runs, while the 4.71 the time you took to complete that run. For example, it took 4.71 minutes to complete the first run, while you took 5.21 minutes to complete the second run. If you have another question, don't hesitate to let me know.

Keep me posted!

[Aspirant]

Once yo u start thinking in "pace," you can stop thinking in mph or kph. Think of runners who compute a four-minute mile or a 9.5 second hundred yards. They never fddle with mph. 

If you do a pace of 19.5, try next to run a mile in 19.0. 

[Kitkat11]

You don't have to....fitbit tells you🤔

[Steven1967]

Thanks for the info

[KyleRedacted]

Oh man THANK YOU

I thought this was saying "feet and inches per minute" and when I saw a distinctly lower number after trying much more consciously to go faster and keep it up, compared to other activities of the same nature.. I was shocked

Glad to know that my effort was real 😂

[enjuneer]

It would be so easy for the coder to allow one to convert pace to the units desired units, which most Fitbit users (Fitbit clients if you will) find alien and could give a hoot about using or manually converting to more conventional expressions of rate of travel. As in Kilometers/hour or (gasp!) miles/hour.

Come on Fitbit, quit being childish. Allow your customers to choose the standard units the prefer using. For most of us it is NOT pace.

[Algrady]

Oh! I was thinking feet & inches too!

[prost22]

81? I think if you back far enough someone asked what the number " 81' "

 meant, that's what the person saw on her/his Fitbit, 81' . I was just that

 as an example.

 it's a pace, the inverse of speed.---the person's Fitbit said " 81' "

 that means she/he took 81 minutes to go one mile. This is obviously

 the inverse of speed. I will give you a conversion. 

 Say your Fitbit says your pace is " 21'30" "...This means you averaged

 21 minutes and 30 seconds to go 1 mile. 

 so let's convert that to miles per hour (MPH)

 MPH=(3600)/(60*21+30)    So I've multiplied the number of minutes (21) by 60 seconds to

 get number of seconds in 21 minutes, then add the 30 additional seconds in your pace,

 and I've made that sum (60*21+30) the denominator, and 3600 the numerator (3600 is the

 number of seconds in an hour). The result is "Miles per hour." 

 It will be exactly the same equation if your Fitbit is set up to tell your "kph---kilometres

 per hour". 

 in algebra. Your pace is  A'B"

then MPH is

 MPH=3600/(A*60+B)

[prost22]

No, it's minutes and seconds.

example: 10 minutes, 32 seconds would be displayed as

 10'32"

[polkib]

FYI. It confused me as well to start with, then I found this thread 👍

I to was brought up with imperial measurements, so I also immediately assumed feet and inches.

The use as minutes and seconds, although another imperial use of ' & " isn't related to time or distance. These are used for longitude and latitude measurements and should always follow degrees° minutes' and seconds"

Whatever happened to mph? 🙃