Name: Climbing Rate
Rating: 3.8 (4 reviews)
Author: NMacias

See https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/aba23dcb-9218-4051-8c80-7ef245aea012 for more-customizable version.

This data field calculates a smoothed climbing rate and displays it in ft/min. On my Forerunner 920XT unit, the 30s Vertical Speed field seemed to bounce around wildly with each reading; so I wrote this to calculate a smoothed (10-second average) climbing rate.

V 1.1 checks your selected elevation units, and displays climbing rate accordingly: either ft/min or meters/sec.

Ignore the readings for the first few seconds; after that it looks really stable on my device. Let me know how this works if you try it!

Source code here: https://github.com/nickmacias/Garmin-ClimbRate