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So I've just started using MyWoosh on my Bluetooth & ANT+ rollers
Everything is paired up and working correctly but I seem to have a distance discrepancy between the MyWoosh app, my Garmin 1040 and my Garmin 965 watch
The Garmin 1040 & 965 watch have the wheel size set to 622mm (correct for a 700c wheel) and apparently MyWoosh is automatically set to 622mm (cant see anywhere you could change this in the app)
So on a relatively flat 1 hour MyWoosh course (119ft of elevation) I averaged 14mph according to MyWoosh yet both Garmin's recorded a 20mph average and the ride felt like a 20mph ride
I know MyWoosh uses their own algorithm to determine distance, speed etc... but considering the small elevation of 119ft id would of thought MyWoosh's figures would be closer to the Garmin's
Interesting question. There probably aren't that many MyWhoosh users on rollers, I suspect most will be on resistance trainers of one sort or another. Where resistance trainers are being used, I think only the power is used to calculate speed. This means you can be in any gear and peddling at any cadence and the speed in the app will only reflect the power you are producing. I'm assuming your rollers don't have a resistance function of course? Perhaps MyWhoosh slows your noted speed to account for the wind resistance that you aren't getting on the rollers?
I was drawn to your title as I have long thought that the distance I cover in a MyWhoosh session is lower than in Zwift. I used to subscribe to Zwift (until they put the price up by about 50% overnight) and reckoned a 1 hour session at mid effort would get me close to 20 miles on a flat course. I managed 25 miles in an hour once having set out deliberately to see if I could. On MyWhoosh, I'd say the distances covered are around 10% lower. Not that it matters to anything except ego, but I had wondered if anyone else had the same experience. Maybe I used to try harder when I was paying for the privilege?Â
Isn't the key thing that you did an hour of sustained/consistent effort? Does a measured distance discrepancy actually affect an important measurement i.e. or Power or HR?Â
I'm assuming your rollers don't have a resistance function of course?
They do have a 3 stage magnetic resistance feature which I've only used on the lowest setting so far
Isn't the key thing that you did an hour of sustained/consistent effort? Does a measured distance discrepancy actually affect an important measurement i.e. or Power or HR?Â
It doesn't affect any important measurements but I like things to be correct and both Garmin's said it was a 20mph ride, it felt like a 20mph ride yet MyWoosh said it was a 14mph ride, a 14mph average is a little bit slow for me out on the road doing 2000-3000 ft of climbing in a 50 mile ride, so on an indoor trainer with little elevation and no wind 14mph seems very slow
I was drawn to your title as I have long thought that the distance I cover in a MyWhoosh session is lower than in Zwift. I used to subscribe to Zwift (until they put the price up by about 50% overnight) and reckoned a 1 hour session at mid effort would get me close to 20 miles on a flat course. I managed 25 miles in an hour once having set out deliberately to see if I could. On MyWhoosh, I'd say the distances covered are around 10% lower. Not that it matters to anything except ego, but I had wondered if anyone else had the same experience. Maybe I used to try harder when I was paying for the privilege?Â
Zwift is notorious for over-representing speed and distance. If you were 10% out that would be at the lower end of the variation most folk report.Â
Not sure I've bought any new frames or wheels in MyWhoosh, which going on Zwift, could easily slow me down a lot.
Hasn't MyWhoosh recently introduced virtual wind?
Does MyWhoosh adjust speed for your power over different terrain types?
Zwift speeds for my effort are stupidly high compared to outdoors, always have been, partly as I ride solo but also Zwift physics are whacky!