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Feb 2018
9:13am, 15 Feb 2018
116 posts
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iRicey
Haha.
Can of worms...
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Feb 2018
9:20am, 15 Feb 2018
117 posts
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iRicey
How do you post images?
I've had a compare with yours and dug my elevation from Bushy out and there is actually a passing resemblance.
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Feb 2018
9:45am, 15 Feb 2018
3,902 posts
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larkim
@Fizz - differences could well be down to watches having / not having barometric altimeters built in so difficult to compare elevation without knowing which watches / apps were used.
If there's no altimeter involved, broadly speaking Fetch will ignore whatever the watch has recorded and replace it with the contours in a topographic map which match up with the top down view of the route run. So assuming most people's runs around the parkrun will look very similar when viewed from above, elevation graphs will be more or less the same if there's no altimeter involved.
If you do have an altimeter, Fetch should just use whatever your watch said - though of course if that watch is playing silly buggers then that still could lead to very odd elevation graphs.
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Feb 2018
9:55am, 15 Feb 2018
2,459 posts
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jdarun
Garmin elevation can be a bit crap on flatter routes because any lateral position errors can jump you up and down contour lines even when the route is flat. Not forgetting the fact that the underlying elevation map probably has errors too. Not such a problem when you are going up and down bigger hills though.
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Feb 2018
10:07am, 15 Feb 2018
95 posts
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BexleyKev
What e-mail? I don't see any wiggly lines on mine. Is it a conspiracy? FOMO 
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Feb 2018
10:26am, 15 Feb 2018
15,531 posts
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Dvorak
I had a look - I have wiggly lines. On the parkrun news, I didn't register if they were on my results email.
I think Fetch elevations tend to overestimate a bit usually; a lot if the course is pretty flat.
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Feb 2018
10:41am, 15 Feb 2018
96 posts
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BexleyKev
Ah, not signed up for the news e-mail. However, I vaguely recall talk of the lines on the new finish tokens being lined up in sequence to form a map which, when used with hidden, coded, directions contained in the results e-mail, lead to a horde of milestone t-shirts.
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Feb 2018
10:44am, 15 Feb 2018
3,903 posts
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larkim
Parkrun wristbands - one of my darling offspring has lost his, and in a touch of (completely sexist and 1970s attitude) irony I was thinking of ordering him a pink one to replace it - but I can't see that option any more?
Plus, why were they only ever available in black and pink anyway?
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Feb 2018
11:06am, 15 Feb 2018
97 posts
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BexleyKev
larkim - a new range of colours out soon, not sure if they are live yet. Old ones only in Black originally - could be due to the way the barcode is lasered out of the white film on top of the black band. Had heard that the pink ones weren't as reliable scanning ( although a lot of the blacks were supplied smudged and had to be replaced). New style seems OK ( the OH has just received one after her original 3 year old black band stopped scanning ).
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Feb 2018
11:37am, 15 Feb 2018
119 posts
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iRicey
this is the wiggly line
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