Auto Pause on a Garmin

[Giant DK]

Should I turn of Auto Pause on my Garmin? And what about manual stop?

I have read this:
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/08/garmin-edge-800-in-depth-first-look.html

"Note however that it’s generally recommend you turn Auto Pause off if
you’re using a Power Meter and analyzing some power-specific workout
information such as Normalized Power, where introducing unaccounted
for gaps in time can twist your results and artificially inflate
them. Just the way the calculations work."


Currently I have turned of Auto Pause because of what I have read. On
my last ride I had a coffee stop where I manually press Pause. I am
new to Golden Cheetah and Power Meter and earlier mostly just used
Garmin Connect just to keep track on km and to view the map - I know
Connect is not anything like Golden Cheetah! But in connect the paused
section doesn't show on the graph where as it is shown with "missed
data" in Golden Cheetah.

This made me thing and ask this question. Does Auto Pause or Pause
mess up or affect the calculated power numbers in Golden Cheetah? I
also ask this because I can see my average numbers for power is not
the same i Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks or Golden Cheetah.

Hope you can help and advice me:-)

[Giant DK]

Does anyone have any advice?

What do you do? Use Auto Pause, Pause or don't pause?

[amaferanga]

Turn it off. It doesn't add anything useful.

[Giant DK]

Thanks a lot for the answer. To others I also got this two replies on
email:

"I'm using autopause and GC and I never have any problems of corrupted
data."

"Auto Pause is no use at all when using WKO for training - it can't
handle it at all and often produces entirely bogus results.
GoldenCheetah doesn't suffer the same issues, so it's less clear cut,
however you will have potential to lose the first couple of seconds of
any restarts data so I would very much recommend not having Auto Pause
turned on."