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03-18-24, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by CoogansBluff

I had a couple of long group rides last weekend where my Garmin recorded the ascents of each one to be about 1,500 feet, but the route maps posted by the club sponsoring the rides showed the climbs to be about 2,200.

I believe the posted routes on https://ridewithgps.com/ are correct. Why would my Garmin record and show something so different?

This is to be expected as RWGPS has a tendency to overestimate the vertical as it follows the contour not the road. Bridges are a perfect example of this.

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