Trying to investigate the fit files to see if this is a strava bug but my run data in intervals.icu has never looked quite right to me. specifically pace data bounces around a lot. at first I thought it was because the watch was moving but I was digging into the fit files from other apps on my phone and found that the data there was looking pretty smooth.
as an experiment I tried exporting from HealthKit → intervals.icu to compare and that made for quite a change in my data here.
There are some expected differences around auto pause being turned off but strava automatically removing stops at lights which is fine and I’m not really worried about. but what I’m confused by is the pace screen.
power and HR look pretty close but pace is all over the place on the strava export. on a different workout that I tested this on that was an internal session. the strava export seems to be missing multiple sections of pace data when the power data showed I was still moving.
I found this thread from 21
but when I pull the data field they recommend, it shows a velocity_smooth that is super jumpy. but when I export the .fit from strava, the enhanced speed column seems pretty flat to me.
am I missing something about how this data flow works?
is this a known limitation of strava or is this something I should be changing settings to avoid.
playing around with different data workflows but right now these are recorded on an Apple Watch with workout-outdoors, pushed to strava (looks fine there) and then imported to intervals.icu