Total time or workout time in import from Garmin

My weekly strenght training is sometimes imported with total time as the duration and sometimes as workout time.
I record it as type Cardio and then switch it to Strenght training in both garmin as Intervals.

Anyone an idea what causes the ‘random’ time (total time or workout time as duration)

I import from my TrainerRoad calendar, and almost all interval sessions and road rides import with the correct scheduled time, but for my club evening time trials, where TrainerRoad doesn’t seem to allow a start time, it uses the expected duration of the time trial as a start time. Guess this is similar?

Robert

It is always the same start point in Garmin, activity Cardio and then exportered to intervals.icu.
Then probably a 50/50 share in workout duration and total time as duration in intervals.icu

This one has pace so Intervals.icu will calculate and use moving time: https://intervals.icu/activities/i19336616

This one does not so elapsed time is used: https://intervals.icu/activities/i19518908

Maybe you need to turn off the GPS or say indoors or something?

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That’s a major problem for me. When data is uploaded from an app, specially Strava, we wil not have the real data. I’ve plenty of error in ICU, certainly related to Strava. Most of my hill run does not reflect the real time I spend. Pause or slow walk are cut the duration is completly wrong and does not reflect what you did. I suspect that because on bike, biker like to hide their break as that make their stats to be slower than in the real live. When I want to stop, I stop my wacht. But most of the time a break or a stop for me is part of my training and should appear in the duration of the session.

The saturday trainings are all the same, but they are treated differently.

Those have pace data. Intervals.icu has a threshold below which it decides the pace data is junk and ignores it. You can do Actions → Settings and tick the “Ignore velocity data” box to always ignore it.

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What device are you using, when recording a workout?

Forerunner 935. What I am stating is that it is exactly the same training, but they are treated differently.
And I have no idea.

That makes a difference. Still does not explain why it is imported differently.

Intervals looks at the data in the FIT files, and can only display what shows in the files, so the best point to start troubleshooting is:

  1. Viewing both files in fitfileviewer.com to see differenced in your recorded data.

  2. Checking your setup on your device.

  • Make sure that GPS is set to off, in the activity profile you use for cardio.
  • If it’s not disabled, and auto pause is set to on, it will stop recording when it detects no movement.
  • This should help: Forerunner 935 - Activity Settings

Yes it does. If GPS is on and the GPS data is erratic because of low signal, Intervals assumes an Outdoor workout and ignores parts under a pace/speed threshold.
If GPS is off, Intervals ignores pace/speed from GPS.
With the setting to ignore pace/speed, you can correct in case you forgot to turn off GPS.

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