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Read Your Activity Details

Every activity you add appears in your activity list and opens onto its own page with stats, a route map, charts, laps and the best efforts found in it. This guide explains what you’re looking at and how to dig in.

Your activity list

Open Activities in the navigation to see every activity you’ve added, newest first.

  • Search finds activities by name, original filename, or device name
  • Activity type and Date range narrow the list. The date range offers this week, this month, last month, the last 3 months, or Custom dates. Clear all removes every filter
  • Columns lets you choose what the table shows: name, activity type, distance, duration, average pace, average heart rate, elevation and date
  • Select a column heading (name, activity type, distance, or date and time) to sort by it, and select it again to reverse the order
  • The small map next to each activity is its route. A crossed-out pin means there is no route to draw, for example on a treadmill run or an activity with only summary data
  • The trash icon deletes an activity, after you confirm

New activities show as Processing for a moment while FitKeep reads them, and as Failed if it couldn’t. See Activities that are still processing or failed.

Activity details

The top of the page shows the activity’s name, type, date and its headline numbers. The Activity details card below adds the rest:

  • Time: what your watch’s timer counted. It leaves out the time the timer was paused
  • Elapsed time: from start to finish, every pause included. It only appears when it differs from Time
  • Average pace: elapsed time over distance, leaving out pauses longer than 5 minutes, so a short stop at a traffic light still counts. A left-out fast section doesn’t count either
  • Best 1 km: your fastest continuous kilometre in this activity
  • Pauses: how many times the timer was stopped for more than 20 seconds, and for how long in total
  • GPS points: how many positions your device recorded. More points give a more detailed route and charts

Numbers the header already shows, such as distance or average heart rate, aren’t repeated in the card.

Badges in the header

Badges under the title point out what stands out in this activity:

  • Personal best at a distance, such as “Personal best 5 km”: this activity holds your fastest time at that distance
  • 2nd fastest or 3rd fastest: a top-three time. Gold, silver and bronze mark first, second and third
  • Longest, such as “Longest running”: your longest activity of that type, or one of your three longest
  • Was PB or Was longest: the activity set a personal best or was your longest at the time, and a later one has since beaten it

Hover over or tap a best effort badge for its time and pace. +N more shows the rest when there are many.

Charts and map

  • Route map: your GPS track. Select Expand for a full-size map. On desktop the map stays in view as you scroll
  • Pace profile: how your speed changed from start to finish. Fastest is the fastest pace recorded at any single moment
  • Elevation profile: syncs with the map as you hover, ideal for trail runs and hikes. It shows elevation gain and loss and the lowest and highest point
  • Heart rate profile: with a per-zone breakdown of time spent at each intensity. See Profile and Heart Rate
  • Cadence profile: steps per minute (SPM) for running and walking, counting both feet, and revolutions per minute (RPM) for cycling. Many watches record running cadence for one foot only, so FitKeep doubles it to match what most apps show. Why running cadence can show half explains the details
  • Step length profile: for running activities

A label such as 600 / 3,110 pts in a chart’s corner means the chart draws 600 of the 3,110 recorded points so it stays fast. The numbers use all of them. Select the label to draw every point.

Explore a specific section

  • Drag across the Activity navigator to zoom into any range of the activity. The map and every chart follow your selection. The arrow in its header folds it to one line, and your browser remembers that
  • Select a lap in the laps table to set the range to that lap
  • The Selection panel shows the time, distance, average pace, elevation gain and loss, average grade, heart rate and cadence of the range you picked: beside the charts on a large screen, and under the route when you open the map on a smaller one. Avg grade is the height difference between the start and end of the range over its distance

Smooth out stops

The Pace and Cadence charts have a Smooth out stops switch. It leaves out your stops, such as standing at a traffic light or waiting for the dog, and also the slowing down before a stop and the speeding up after it, so the line shows how you moved without dips and spikes. Long slow stretches such as a climb stay in. The switch applies to both charts, and your browser remembers it.

Moving pace is your moving time over the distance, leaving out the moments you stood still. With a fast section left out, the Moving time line on the pace chart also says what your watch recorded.

The switch only changes the lines. Moving time, Moving pace, Average pace and the Selection stay the same. Beside them, Steady pace and Steady cadence (Avg steady SPM, or RPM on a ride) show your pace and cadence without the stops and the slowing around them. They only appear when they differ from Moving pace and the moving cadence.

Laps and Splits

The Laps table lists the laps your watch recorded: automatically, often every kilometre, or each time you pressed the lap button. Each row shows the lap’s distance, time, average pace and heart rate. A dash means your watch recorded no value for that column. Select a lap to highlight it on the map and in every chart.

Laps of 2 km or more on a run have a small arrow next to the lap number. Select it to show the lap’s Splits: 1 km parts of the lap, counted from its start. FitKeep calculates Splits from the recording, so they are not laps your watch recorded. A last part shorter than 1 km is shown when it is at least 100 m, and pauses are left out, so a lap’s Splits add up to its time.

Best efforts in this activity

The Best efforts in this activity card lists the best efforts found inside the activity, such as your fastest 1 km or 5 km within a longer run:

  • Time and Pace of the effort
  • Rank: where it places among all your efforts at that distance, such as “Personal best” or “3rd”. Hover over or tap it for more, such as “3rd of 42 running”. Best at the time under a rank means the effort was your best when you ran it
  • Measured by: whether the time comes from your watch’s Device distance or the GPS track. When both exist you can switch between them. A warning icon means the two disagree. See Device distance and GPS
  • Time range: when in the activity the effort started and ended

The Count toward best efforts switch at the top of the card sets the whole activity aside: turn it off and the activity stays in your list, but no longer counts in your best efforts, rankings, records, longest activities and goals, for example a run with a faulty footpod or a recording you don’t trust. Nothing is deleted, and turning it on again brings the activity back. See Set an activity aside.

See Understand Personal Records and Best Efforts for how efforts are found.

Fast sections

A fast section is a stretch of the activity that moved faster than the sport allows, for example when your watch kept recording in a car or on a train, or after a GPS glitch. FitKeep looks for them when it reads the activity and lists them in the Best efforts in this activity card:

  • A clear one is Left out by itself. Select Include it if it should count after all
  • When FitKeep isn’t sure, the card asks, such as “Too fast for a run?”, with Leave it out and Keep it. Until you answer it counts, and the activity’s best efforts carry a small warning mark on the Best efforts page
  • Show on map shows the section on the route map, which marks fast sections in their own colour

A fast section that is left out comes off the activity’s own figures as well: its distance, time, average pace and elevation, on this page, in your activity list and weekly totals, and in your Training Plan. A short note under the distance and time, such as “Without the fast section · 24.9 km recorded”, says what your watch recorded, and the pace chart leaves a gap where the section was. Include the section again and the recorded figures come back.

Edit an activity

Select the pencil icon next to the activity title to change its name or its activity type. Leave the name blank to go back to the default. The name appears in your activity list and on the detail page, and the search on your activity list finds it.

AI activity summary

Select AI summary on an activity to generate a short written recap of the effort. FitKeep uses your pace, heart rate, and elevation data to describe how the activity went. It’s generated on demand each time you ask and is not stored.

If you train with a Training Plan, a run during the plan gets an Activity review from your coach instead, written by itself after the run, and the AI summary is not offered for it. The page then also shows the planned session the run matched, with its targets. See Train with a Training Plan.

For a longer conversation about your training, see Chat with the AI Coach.

Activities with only summary data

Some Garmin activities arrive as a summary only: totals such as distance, time and heart rate, without the recording behind them. Their page says “Only summary data has been received for this activity” and shows the stats, but no charts, laps, best efforts or Raw data, and no Reprocess file or Download FIT file, since there is no file. See Connect Garmin and Sync Automatically.

Garmin attribution

Activities from a Garmin device carry a line such as “This chart was created using data provided by Garmin.” or “Insights derived in part from Garmin device-sourced data.” Garmin asks apps to say when numbers come from a Garmin device. It doesn’t change your data.

Raw data, reprocess, download and delete

At the bottom of the page:

  • Raw data: everything inside the original file, decoded when you select Show raw data. Nothing here is needed to read your activity
  • Reprocess file: reads the file again with FitKeep’s latest calculations, and updates the stats, charts and best efforts. The activity stays as it is until the new data is ready, and your name and type are kept
  • Download FIT file: the original file, exactly as your device recorded it
  • Delete activity: removes the activity, its file and its best efforts, after you confirm. This can’t be undone

Activities that are still processing or failed

New activities are processed in the background, usually within moments. Until then, the activity shows as Processing, and its page updates by itself when it’s ready.

If FitKeep can’t read a file, it retries automatically a few times. If it still fails, the activity is marked Failed in your activity list. Open it and select Try again. If it keeps failing, the file itself may be damaged. Try exporting it again from your device or platform.

Cleaner data

FitKeep filters noisy GPS and elevation spikes and smooths outliers, so your charts reflect the effort rather than sensor glitches. When your device recorded no usable elevation, elevation gain shows a dash. Why your elevation gain is different in every app explains what the filter does and which elevation gain figure you see.