Garmin Connect and Strava dealing with an obvious anomaly

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    Daveyraveygravey

    Did a nice ride today aimed at two of the 100 hills in Kent/Surrey. Flew down Titsey Hill – it was early and quiet – but really surprised when my Garmin Forerunner gave my vmax as 109 mph! Put it down to maybe hitting a bump or a swerve causing a spike in the data or machine.
    Uploaded data to both Strava and GC. GC still shows vmax as 109 but not surprised as it is a Garmin device. Strava shows vmax as 84 kph which makes more sense – most of my fast downhills have been around 53 mph and doubt me and my bike can get much more than that – not that I want to! When I check the segment for that hill the average speed is 86 kph but max is 84. How does that work?!

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    DanTe

    Correct
    Correct Altitude.

    Strava?
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    Garmin?

    Can be as much as 300ft+ difference between the two over a flatish ride of say 2000ft over a 50 mile ride.

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    bashthebox

    It’ll be off GPS. Titsey’s
    It’ll be off GPS. Titsey’s got loads of tree cover so will be a bit glitchy when it comes to finding satellites – basically you’ll have jumped between two blind spots very rapidly.

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