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jabberknit Jul 2019 12:30pm, 2 Jul 2019 2,901 posts	0 jabberknit Great summary, and thank you, but I have a question about it. I live and do most of my running in Leicestershire, which is not flat and does have a fair bit of hillage though nothing particularly serious compared to other parts of the country. So I can't quite believe I've run up over 17,000 metres of ascent so far this year which is what my inforgraphic seems to be implying. Other available (probably inferior) websites say it's more around 10,000 - 11,000 metres. Am I misunderstanding or misreading something, which is perfectly possible as I'm not very maths-minded, or could there be an issue?
fetcheveryone Jul 2019 12:32pm, 2 Jul 2019 22,207 posts	0 fetcheveryone Try clicking 'Show Data Table', and look for the 'Asc.' row. If there's a month with higher numbers than the rest, we may be able to trace it to a specific entry.
jabberknit Jul 2019 12:55pm, 2 Jul 2019 2,902 posts	0 jabberknit All the monthly totals seem much higher than on ~~strava~~ - I optimistically join their monthly Run Climbing Challenge to try and reach 2,000 metres each month, and usually fail to achieve that. The lowest month on here is 2,082, most of the others are well over 3,000.
Sam Jelfs Jul 2019 12:58pm, 2 Jul 2019 366 posts	0 Sam Jelfs Is your elevation data based on GPS or an altimeter? That other site does a lot of "cleaning up" of data that they aren't sure of. I think height changes of less than 5m on GPS data are ignored, and less than 2m on altimeter data are ignored.
jabberknit Jul 2019 1:11pm, 2 Jul 2019 2,903 posts	0 jabberknit It's whatever's on my Garmin watch, which automatically loads up to Garmin Connect and strava. I don't use anything else to log my runs. 7,000 metres difference over 6 months/1000m miles seems a bit excessive for 'cleaning up' data!
jabberknit Jul 2019 3:37pm, 2 Jul 2019 2,904 posts	0 jabberknit Just done today's run, 7.5 miles. Ascent: Garmin Connect: 99 metres Strava: 103 metres Fetch: 148 metres
larkim Jul 2019 3:53pm, 2 Jul 2019 7,970 posts	0 larkim I thought broadly that ~~strava~~ and FE did the same thing - ditch the data from the watch (unless an altimeter is present) and replace with estimated topographic data based on mapping data? So quite surprise they turn out different values. I don't pay any attention to the elevation data anyway, unless it's a particularly hilly effort, so I wouldn't really notice it on moderate elevation datasets like yours jabberknit. I did a similar distance yesterday with similarly small elevation data and the discrepancies between ~~strava~~ FE and garmin are similar in scale.
larkim Jul 2019 4:06pm, 2 Jul 2019 7,971 posts	0 larkim Just checked a more lumpy run:- GC - 787m Str - 736m FE - 867m
Pompey Paul Jul 2019 4:17pm, 2 Jul 2019 5,939 posts	0 Pompey Paul I wear a Garmin Fenix with a built in altimeter and agree the Garmin elevation data is always lower than the Fetch elevation data. A recent 18 mile run on the SWCP: GC - 751m FE - 1,057m Fetch - Do you ignore our altimeter data and use the topographic data based on mapping data? Can you give us the option to use the Garmin altimeter data?
Sam Jelfs Jul 2019 4:19pm, 2 Jul 2019 368 posts	0 Sam Jelfs Interesting, just had a look at one myself... GC - 1064m, Str - 1152m FE - 1499m fetcheveryone.com/t-16346646 - Recorded with a Fenix 3 with altimeter.

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