Garmin ForeRunner 410

[ricardito]

Having finally decided to treat myself, I've just used my FR410 for the first time at an orienteering event. A couple of issues emerged, first that the unit went into powersave while I was waiting at the start ( OK, I've disabled power saving - I'd have preferred to just extend it, but that choice doesn't seem to exist...)

The more problematic issue is the time display. When I got to the finish the time shown was 56:19, but even allowing a couple of minutes for finding a signal after the powersave problem, that's not close to the 64min I actually took. I suspect the problem arises from a few short breaks in the track, which could be due to heavy tree cover or my slow movement (they are mostly near controls).

Garmin Connect shows this:

Time: 00:56:19
Moving Time: 00:52:11
Elapsed Time: 01:02:23

So it's the Elapsed Time I want - can this be displayed instead of ("tracked") Time? I haven't found a setting yet (and I'd prefer not to have to use a separate stopwatch for the job - that's kind of missing the point...). I've disabled the "auto pause" feature but I'm not sure if that will completely solve the problem.

Is there anyone here with experience of the FR410 who can offer guidance?

Thanks!

[frog]

When I first used my forerunner 305 I had a similar problem and it was caused by the autopause feature. We went on a very slow extended family walk (with toddler) over Christmas and it didn't pick up we were moving for most of it.
I keep autopause on for normal runs, but had to turn it off on a steep hill at the weekend as I was going slowly up it again. Always turn it off when orienteering.

[rocky]

I've never found much need for autopause while running so I keep it switched off - its not hard to stop your watch at lights or for shoelace stops but would be pretty annoying to have it stop during a recovery period of an interval training session when you want to time your recovery.

For cycling though it is great, especially through town - its not as easy to hit buttons when you're balancing at traffic lights. I think this is the intention with this feature.

[ricardito]

Thanks rocky and frog. Hopefully having the auto pause off will give me the correct time information (no matter how unwelcome that may be...)