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Oranj 8 Jul 10:26pm, 8 Jul 2025 4,611 posts	Quote Pin Oranj Jen HB wrote:During tonight's run my garmin decided to only record the route for the first bit, but has recorded the total time/distance of the total run. Has anyone had this, any tips to sort? We had the same thread here a while back. Usually though, from the watch taking a while to get GPS lock at the start of a run, not the end. Summary: It'll have calculated time and distance from being waved about on your wrist (recent Garmins are clever like that). There will be no actual positional data for you to find so your missing route is lost
chunkywizard 8 Jul 10:29pm, 8 Jul 2025 18,384 posts	Quote Pin chunkywizard Sarbear wrote:I've got a track session for the first time since I've owned a Garmin tomorrow. Does it automatically recognise you're running on a track or is there a special setting? Newer watches know you are on a track. What model do you have?
Sarbear 8 Jul 10:33pm, 8 Jul 2025 177 posts	Quote Pin Sarbear chunkywizard wrote:Sarbear wrote:I've got a track session for the first time since I've owned a Garmin tomorrow. Does it automatically recognise you're running on a track or is there a special setting? Newer watches know you are on a track. What model do you have? It's a Solar Instinct 2S, so a few years old now, and not specifically a running watch (although as far as I can tell it has the same features as lower end Forerunners). I've managed to find the track run activity type so will stick to that to be safe.
NordRunner 9 Jul 8:00am, 9 Jul 2025 5,262 posts	Quote Pin NordRunner Good idea. If the track is new to you and you're not in lane 1 you might like to review p8 of the manual. It will calibrate itself after a few laps anyway. www8.garmin.com
SPR 9 Jul 9:23am, 9 Jul 2025 48,273 posts	Quote Pin SPR You don't need to calibrate anymore. Garmin have a database of tracks so unless the track is totally new/ never 'seen' a Garmin, you're good to go from the off.
SPR 9 Jul 9:29am, 9 Jul 2025 48,274 posts	Quote Pin SPR It's possible some older watches didn't get the DB update don't know if the Instinct 2 was too old to receive it.
flanker 9 Jul 11:29am, 9 Jul 2025 21,521 posts	Quote Pin flanker Jen HB wrote:During tonight's run my garmin decided to only record the route for the first bit, but has recorded the total time/distance of the total run. Has anyone had this, any tips to sort? The other possibility for this is it has run out of memory. If a Garmin can't store all the datapoints it will calculate the running totals for time/distance/etc but not actually save the GPS data. This used to be a common problem on older models but not heard from it for a while. IIRC the newer models will (should!) delete older activities if running out of space. Might be worth checking this if the problem repeats .