#sportstracker — Public Fediverse posts

@iergo je ne sais pas exactement ce que tu as constaté, ou ressens, mais ça m’a fait me demander, vu que je fais les deux, en quelles proportions exactement.
Bilan, je fais plus de vttae (350x) depuis que j’ai commencé en 2022, que de jogging (250x) (commencé en 2020 mais je n’ai l’appli #sportstracker que depuis mars 2021), et depuis que j’ai le vélo, je fais de moins en moins de marche et rando à pied !

#velo #running

@iergo je ne sais pas exactement ce que tu as constaté, ou ressens, mais ça m’a fait me demander, vu que je fais les deux, en quelles proportions exactement.
Bilan, je fais plus de vttae (350x) depuis que j’ai commencé en 2022, que de jogging (250x) (commencé en 2020 mais je n’ai l’appli #sportstracker que depuis mars 2021), et depuis que j’ai le vélo, je fais de moins en moins de marche et rando à pied !

#velo #running

The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery

Yesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout.

Everyone is familiar. If you go for a ten minute walk, or a fifteen minute walk Apple will ask “track walk/cycle” and you’ll say yes. When you go to Sports Tracker and other apps, you will notice that there is no map, just duration, and a high speed.

When you wear the apple watch it wakes up after ten to fifteen minutes and asks “track workout?” and you’ll say yes. If you’re lucky your phone will have the GPS track. If you’re unlucky it won’t.

Yesterday I suspect that the Apple watch created two files. The first file was the workout with a static GPS point, fabricated when I accepted the workout. The second file, just 3 minutes, was counted as a 3min cycle at 56 km/h. I noticed the same thing last week within the same scenario.

I usually think “A three kilometre bike ride is not worth tracking, so I don’t bother starting the GPS. In yesterday’s scenario we had three complications.

The first is that because Suunto and Sports tracker are logged in to the same account I can track with either the Apple Watch or the Suunto watch, but if I track with both then I get duplicate data. That’s why I wore the Apple watch but tracked with the Suunto run.

I tracked the ride to the ride, and the ride itself with the Suunto device, and then I stopped it at the end of the group ride. It didn’t ask me whether to count the group ride, on the Apple Watch.

When I rode home I tracked with the Garmin Explore 2 but didn’t keep the data. With the Garmin Explore 2 I want the map/climb duration features, but track recording is as a backup. Since the ride home was untracked by the Suunto device when the Apple Watch asked “Track workout” I said “yes” so it did.

That’s when I thought “oups, that was a mistake”. Rationally it makes perfect sense that it kept just the 12 minute ride, rather than the entire ride in three parts. At the same time when I saw the zero minute, zero distance, zero speed error file I was curious.

What is curious is that the file seems to have been spliced. One file has the HR data, and the other has the GPS data. I suspect that with clear breaks between part 1, the ride from home to the start of the ride, part 2, the ride, and part 3, the ride home Apple theoretically has three signals for workouts, but it only kept the most recent. It didn’t restore parts 1 and 2. That is normal and expected behaviour.

TDLR

An Apple Watch automatically detects that you might be walking, running or cycling, and it will ask “Do you want to record this”. If your bike ride is twelve minutes, then by the time you say yes the activity is over. It (the apple watch) then backtracks to find the HR data but may not have access to location data. That’s why the activity duration is logged, but not the GPS co-ordinates.

Strava saw one file, and showed the route correctly, but got the corrupted data and displayed that data as a workout. I noticed when I was AFK (Away from keyboard) so I saw people liking it, but I couldn’t delete it. I was curious to see which app created this mess, and I strongly suspect that it’s from data the Apple Watch gave to Sports tracker, which was then read by the Suunto app, before passing it to Strava. The activity that is correct is the one that Apple sent directly to Strava, If I remember correctly.

In conclusion, it’s not the Apple watch, by itself, but rather Apple, Sportstracer, suunto and strava going through generations of a gpx file before returning NaN.

And Finally

It is better to intentionally track workouts from the start, rather than 10 or more minutes into an activity, as an afterthought. As we have seen the files tend to be improperly formed. Neither Sports tracker, Suunto nor Strava know what to do with the data. It’s a case for leaving the Apple Watch at home, or turning off Suunto to Strava synching.

The one caveat is that when you turn off sync, you get a backlog the next time you enable it. It’s easier to delete activities after the fact.

The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery

Yesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout.

Everyone is familiar. If you go for a ten minute walk, or a fifteen minute walk Apple will ask “track walk/cycle” and you’ll say yes. When you go to Sports Tracker and other apps, you will notice that there is no map, just duration, and a high speed.

When you wear the apple watch it wakes up after ten to fifteen minutes and asks “track workout?” and you’ll say yes. If you’re lucky your phone will have the GPS track. If you’re unlucky it won’t.

Yesterday I suspect that the Apple watch created two files. The first file was the workout with a static GPS point, fabricated when I accepted the workout. The second file, just 3 minutes, was counted as a 3min cycle at 56 km/h. I noticed the same thing last week within the same scenario.

I usually think “A three kilometre bike ride is not worth tracking, so I don’t bother starting the GPS. In yesterday’s scenario we had three complications.

The first is that because Suunto and Sports tracker are logged in to the same account I can track with either the Apple Watch or the Suunto watch, but if I track with both then I get duplicate data. That’s why I wore the Apple watch but tracked with the Suunto run.

I tracked the ride to the ride, and the ride itself with the Suunto device, and then I stopped it at the end of the group ride. It didn’t ask me whether to count the group ride, on the Apple Watch.

When I rode home I tracked with the Garmin Explore 2 but didn’t keep the data. With the Garmin Explore 2 I want the map/climb duration features, but track recording is as a backup. Since the ride home was untracked by the Suunto device when the Apple Watch asked “Track workout” I said “yes” so it did.

That’s when I thought “oups, that was a mistake”. Rationally it makes perfect sense that it kept just the 12 minute ride, rather than the entire ride in three parts. At the same time when I saw the zero minute, zero distance, zero speed error file I was curious.

What is curious is that the file seems to have been spliced. One file has the HR data, and the other has the GPS data. I suspect that with clear breaks between part 1, the ride from home to the start of the ride, part 2, the ride, and part 3, the ride home Apple theoretically has three signals for workouts, but it only kept the most recent. It didn’t restore parts 1 and 2. That is normal and expected behaviour.

TDLR

An Apple Watch automatically detects that you might be walking, running or cycling, and it will ask “Do you want to record this”. If your bike ride is twelve minutes, then by the time you say yes the activity is over. It (the apple watch) then backtracks to find the HR data but may not have access to location data. That’s why the activity duration is logged, but not the GPS co-ordinates.

Strava saw one file, and showed the route correctly, but got the corrupted data and displayed that data as a workout. I noticed when I was AFK (Away from keyboard) so I saw people liking it, but I couldn’t delete it. I was curious to see which app created this mess, and I strongly suspect that it’s from data the Apple Watch gave to Sports tracker, which was then read by the Suunto app, before passing it to Strava. The activity that is correct is the one that Apple sent directly to Strava, If I remember correctly.

In conclusion, it’s not the Apple watch, by itself, but rather Apple, Sportstracer, suunto and strava going through generations of a gpx file before returning NaN.

And Finally

It is better to intentionally track workouts from the start, rather than 10 or more minutes into an activity, as an afterthought. As we have seen the files tend to be improperly formed. Neither Sports tracker, Suunto nor Strava know what to do with the data. It’s a case for leaving the Apple Watch at home, or turning off Suunto to Strava synching.

The one caveat is that when you turn off sync, you get a backlog the next time you enable it. It’s easier to delete activities after the fact.

Vous êtes sportif, utilisateur d'outils de suivi des performances ? Ces outils sont presque toujours non-libres et payants, voraces de vos données personnelles qui sont hébergées sur des serveurs distants proposés par Garmin, Suunto, Polar ou Timex, etc…

« Arrêtez de payer pour vos stats : cette appli #OpenSource surpasse les géants du sport » :
https://goodtech.info/sportstracker-application-open-source-alternative-strava-garmin/

#SportsTracker est libre et multiplateformes (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Sources et téléchargement : https://github.com/ssaring/sportstracker/releases

Vous êtes sportif, utilisateur d'outils de suivi des performances ? Ces outils sont presque toujours non-libres et payants, voraces de vos données personnelles qui sont hébergées sur des serveurs distants proposés par Garmin, Suunto, Polar ou Timex, etc…

« Arrêtez de payer pour vos stats : cette appli #OpenSource surpasse les géants du sport » :
https://goodtech.info/sportstracker-application-open-source-alternative-strava-garmin/

#SportsTracker est libre et multiplateformes (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Sources et téléchargement : https://github.com/ssaring/sportstracker/releases

Sports Tracker is Waking Up

Reading Time: 2 minutes

In the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro and then the Peak 5.

At the same time as I was jumping from one watch to another Sports Tracker was growing, and then Suunto bought it, and it became Movescount and this app was truly fantastic. I really loved the web app. It then became the Suunto App. Sports Tracker and the Suunto App are iterations of the same app. The Sports tracker app plays nicely with the Apple Watch, among other apps, whereas the Suunto app plays nicely with Suunto and Xiaomi devices.

I felt, for a long time, that Suunto wasn't taking advantage of how great the Movescount app was but in recent weeks I have noticed more social media posts for the Sports tracker app.

This morning, or last night I noticed the emergence of the "My Badges" tab. It has running, hiking, cycling, weight lifting, paddle sports, diving, snow adventure, stamina building and power striker.

It also rewards distance achievements and adventure milestones. The milestones seem to be forward looking. If they were retroactive then I would already have all of these badges, with ease, after three decades of using Sports Tracker, Movescount and the Suunto app.

On the Suunto app I have 486 activities logged, in part because I slid to Garmin to track certain sports and that's where the badges are present. On the Sports tracker app I have 4125 activities tracked, with 33,000 kilometres travelled over 2805 days and four thousand eight hundred and twelve hours of tracked activities.

On Strava I only have three thousand nine hundred plus activities. This is after years, and years of tracking sports.

And Finally

I would welcome a European company becoming more dominant in this space once again. It would be nice not to have to rely on Strava, Garmin and other apps. I was sad to see Movescount decline, and for years I felt that Sports Tracker and the Suunto apps would be abandonned. If they gain momentum I will be happy.

#Apple #Garmin #movescount #sportsTracker #strava #suunto

Sports Tracker is Waking Up

Reading Time: 2 minutes

In the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro and then the Peak 5.

At the same time as I was jumping from one watch to another Sports Tracker was growing, and then Suunto bought it, and it became Movescount and this app was truly fantastic. I really loved the web app. It then became the Suunto App. Sports Tracker and the Suunto App are iterations of the same app. The Sports tracker app plays nicely with the Apple Watch, among other apps, whereas the Suunto app plays nicely with Suunto and Xiaomi devices.

I felt, for a long time, that Suunto wasn't taking advantage of how great the Movescount app was but in recent weeks I have noticed more social media posts for the Sports tracker app.

This morning, or last night I noticed the emergence of the "My Badges" tab. It has running, hiking, cycling, weight lifting, paddle sports, diving, snow adventure, stamina building and power striker.

It also rewards distance achievements and adventure milestones. The milestones seem to be forward looking. If they were retroactive then I would already have all of these badges, with ease, after three decades of using Sports Tracker, Movescount and the Suunto app.

On the Suunto app I have 486 activities logged, in part because I slid to Garmin to track certain sports and that's where the badges are present. On the Sports tracker app I have 4125 activities tracked, with 33,000 kilometres travelled over 2805 days and four thousand eight hundred and twelve hours of tracked activities.

On Strava I only have three thousand nine hundred plus activities. This is after years, and years of tracking sports.

And Finally

I would welcome a European company becoming more dominant in this space once again. It would be nice not to have to rely on Strava, Garmin and other apps. I was sad to see Movescount decline, and for years I felt that Sports Tracker and the Suunto apps would be abandonned. If they gain momentum I will be happy.

#Apple #Garmin #movescount #sportsTracker #strava #suunto

A Cycling Network Operating Centre or NOC

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Today I looked at the Sports Tracker app and I noticed that all of my activities started from home, whether cycling, hiking, or walking. That's because I spent this month cycling and walking from home. I didn't use the car, or trains to get around.

I was thinking of this luxury when I was walking to the food shops this morning. Usually I would go by car, not because I am too lazy to walk four kilometres to the shops and back, but because recently the roads have been congested. People commuting to work all drive at the same time, so the entire road gets clogged up. That's why I walked.

During the pandemic it was nice, because people had lost the freedom, and habit, of driving for everything, so roads were quiet, both in terms of traffic, but also in terms of noise pollution. It's a shame that we didn't preserve the habit of walking, cycling and hiking from home, rather than getting into the car to do activities.

This morning, when I looked at Sports Tracker, and my activities pattern I was happy with two things. The first is with the realisation that all of my activities started from home, but also that I had such a pattern, emanating from home, over the Jura, towards Morges and the region above, Les Rousses and more. If I had cycled with Geneva groups then the pattern would cover even more area.

And Finally

I enjoyed walking from home and hiking every day, for years, and now, this summer, I really enjoyed going for long rides from home, rather than taking the car, or catching a train. I love the convenience of being self-propelled.

#carFree #cycling #driving #sportsTracker #walking

A Cycling Network Operating Centre or NOC

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Today I looked at the Sports Tracker app and I noticed that all of my activities started from home, whether cycling, hiking, or walking. That's because I spent this month cycling and walking from home. I didn't use the car, or trains to get around.

I was thinking of this luxury when I was walking to the food shops this morning. Usually I would go by car, not because I am too lazy to walk four kilometres to the shops and back, but because recently the roads have been congested. People commuting to work all drive at the same time, so the entire road gets clogged up. That's why I walked.

During the pandemic it was nice, because people had lost the freedom, and habit, of driving for everything, so roads were quiet, both in terms of traffic, but also in terms of noise pollution. It's a shame that we didn't preserve the habit of walking, cycling and hiking from home, rather than getting into the car to do activities.

This morning, when I looked at Sports Tracker, and my activities pattern I was happy with two things. The first is with the realisation that all of my activities started from home, but also that I had such a pattern, emanating from home, over the Jura, towards Morges and the region above, Les Rousses and more. If I had cycled with Geneva groups then the pattern would cover even more area.

And Finally

I enjoyed walking from home and hiking every day, for years, and now, this summer, I really enjoyed going for long rides from home, rather than taking the car, or catching a train. I love the convenience of being self-propelled.

#carFree #cycling #driving #sportsTracker #walking

Oh wow, #SportsTracker ( #Salomon, #Suunto) redesigned their sports tracking app in version 7.1.0 and it’s a lot clearer.

The new daily health module and the newly available “commute” graphs in the widgets are a great addition 👍

Have you got favorite feature(s)?

Mine are the ability to find previous activities, see where in the world I’ve exercised (another reminder of how lucky I am), see my own heat map.
Seeing where I am compared to where I was once saved me a few times!

Oh wow, #SportsTracker ( #Salomon, #Suunto) redesigned their sports tracking app in version 7.1.0 and it’s a lot clearer.

The new daily health module and the newly available “commute” graphs in the widgets are a great addition 👍

Have you got favorite feature(s)?

Mine are the ability to find previous activities, see where in the world I’ve exercised (another reminder of how lucky I am), see my own heat map.
Seeing where I am compared to where I was once saved me a few times!

Recently I got back to inline skating after ~17 years of not inline skating, and it's surprisingly fun. To infinity!

#inlineskating #rollerblade #skating #outdoors #sport #Park #infinity #Strava #SportsTracker

My own heat maps. Jogging, walking, e-biking, all-of-the-above combined (since I started using #SportsTracker in April 2021 to now).

My own heat maps. Jogging, walking, e-biking, all-of-the-above combined (since I started using #SportsTracker in April 2021 to now).

Yep.

The GPX and more photos are available at https://www.sports-tracker.com/workout/coraliemercier/669bf6ee0212c471e3e279d7

55 km, 1160 m elevation, 3:40, 14km/h avg speed, 28°C.

Edit: the #SportsTracker link hopefully doesn’t lead to a walled garden.

#BikeTooter #LaCreuse #eMTB #vvt23

Yep.

The GPX and more photos are available at https://www.sports-tracker.com/workout/coraliemercier/669bf6ee0212c471e3e279d7

55 km, 1160 m elevation, 3:40, 14km/h avg speed, 28°C.

Edit: the #SportsTracker link hopefully doesn’t lead to a walled garden.

#BikeTooter #LaCreuse #eMTB #vvt23

So this is tomorrow’s planned #eMTB ride, loaded in #SportsTracker, showing the outdoor map and the satellite map.

#nerd

So this is tomorrow’s planned #eMTB ride, loaded in #SportsTracker, showing the outdoor map and the satellite map.

#nerd

I really like the update in the Suunto #SportsTracker app that provides a profile of the elevation using colored stacks, for better visualization 👌

#nerd

I really like the update in the Suunto #SportsTracker app that provides a profile of the elevation using colored stacks, for better visualization 👌

#nerd

Two funny factoids, from looking at my coaching summary and sleep trends in #SportsTracker

#DailyExercise #fitness

So denn, https://fittrackee.escuco.de/ läuft nun auf Fittrackee v0.7.32.

Bugs Fixed

#504 - Database migrations fail

Translations

#496 Translations update (Dutch)
#499 Translations update (Polish)

#fittrackee #sportstracker #activitytracker #running #biking #hiking #opensource #selfhosting

Updated fittrackee.escuco.de to the newest version 0.7.30.

https://fosstodon.org/@FitTrackee/111874784653060325

#fittrackee #sportstracker #sporttracker #laufen #radfahren #biking #opensource #selfhosting

Updated Fittrackee on https://fittrackee.escuco.de to version 0.7.26.

Bugs fixed: Missing elevation results in incorrect ascent/descent total

Thanks to all contributors for this cool activity tracker!

#fittrackee #activitytracker #sportstracker #outdoor #sport #running #biking

#DailyExercise #fitness #SportsTracker

The coach feature:
“Easy start to the week. Increase your effort to progress in your training.”

Also the coach feature:
“You have significantly increased your training load. Take some time for rest and recovery”

🤔

#DailyExercise #fitness #SportsTracker

The coach feature:
“Easy start to the week. Increase your effort to progress in your training.”

Also the coach feature:
“You have significantly increased your training load. Take some time for rest and recovery”

🤔

Updated my #fittrackee instance to v0.7.24 - many thanks to @sam for this very cool piece of software and his support.

https://fittrackee.escuco.de/

#activitytracker #sportstracker #running #biking #radfahren #laufen #sport

Fittrackee (https://fittrackee.escuco.de) auf v0.7.23 aktualisiert.

Wetterdaten werden nun endlich übernommen (mein Fehler) und zwei kleinere Bugs wurden gefixed.

Again many thanks to @sam / @FitTrackee and all contributors!

#activitytracker #sportstracker #sport #running #biking #fittrackee #fitnesstracker

It's #MountainMonday, and looking on my #SportsTracker diary, I found an adventurous hike to the highest mountain of the Rieserferner Group, #11YearsAgo 😎

Starting in Rein in Taufers (1550m), we hiked 10km and 1900m gain up to the Hochgall (3436m): it was demanding, long, and sometimes very steep and exposed… therefore absolutely amazing! 🤠

#Mountaineering #SouthTyrol #Alps #Glacier #mountains

It's #MountainMonday, and looking on my #SportsTracker diary, I found an adventurous hike to the highest mountain of the Rieserferner Group, #11YearsAgo 😎

Starting in Rein in Taufers (1550m), we hiked 10km and 1900m gain up to the Hochgall (3436m): it was demanding, long, and sometimes very steep and exposed… therefore absolutely amazing! 🤠

#Mountaineering #SouthTyrol #Alps #Glacier #mountains

Today marks 12 months of e-road cycling and e-mountain biking for me \o/ (and tomorrow will mark 12 months since I got my own eMTB)

3011 kilometers, shown in orange on the #SportsTracker map!

Most of it was recreational but a lot of it was a substitute to driving for errands and commute, or to meet people.

I think (*) I may have driven fewer kilometers than I cycled in the last year, as a result.

____
(*) estimate of 2700-2900 km driven.

#BikeTooter #vtt #vttae #eMTB #vtt06

Today marks 12 months of e-road cycling and e-mountain biking for me \o/ (and tomorrow will mark 12 months since I got my own eMTB)

3011 kilometers, shown in orange on the #SportsTracker map!

Most of it was recreational but a lot of it was a substitute to driving for errands and commute, or to meet people.

I think (*) I may have driven fewer kilometers than I cycled in the last year, as a result.

____
(*) estimate of 2700-2900 km driven.

#BikeTooter #vtt #vttae #eMTB #vtt06

Upgraded FitTrackee to v0.7.22 on https://fittrackee.escuco.de

Bugs Fixed:
- Fix various typos
- fix modal navigation and closing
Translations
- Translations update (German)
- Translations update (Polish)
- Translations update (Polish)
- Translations update (Dutch)

Have fun!

#activitytracker #sport #sportstracker #fittrackee #running #biking

Reading Time: 4 minutes

A few weeks, or even months ago, I noticed that the Suunto and Sports Tracker apps play very nicely with the Apple watch, especially Sports Tracker. For this reason I spent quite a bit of time playing with the sports tracker app with the iphone. In fact it almost convinced me that I would get a new apple watch, to play with sports tracker.

Apple Watches are Expensive

The Series Four Apple Watch I have now is over four years old with a charge cycle every day of those four years. As a result of this the charge does not last as long as it used to. It barely survives the day now. It loses 25 percent when I'm sleeping with it on my wrist.

I considered replacing the Series Four with the SE because the SE is the cheapest apple watch available but it's still over three hundred francs. The Garmin 45s is about 150 CHF and so is the Suunto Peak 5. The Garmin 45s is a speciality watch, focused mainly on running, and to give you VO2 max info. The battery lasts a day or two before it is desperate for a new charge.

Buyer's Remorse with Garmin

Although I like the Garmin Instinct now I had problems with the Garmin Etrex 32, the Garmin Instinct, and was disappointed by the Garmin 45s. I wasn't so happy with the strap, with battery life and with visible GPS mistakes. I am happy with the Etrex SE but it still feels a little limited, unless you love geocaching. If you like geocaching then this device is awesome. I am not yet a fan of geocaching.

The Suunto App

I have been tracking workouts with Sports Tracker, which was then bought by Suunto before becoming the Suunto App and they have recently used AI to provide a text based coach. It tells you how you've been sleeping, how you've been working out, what type of workout you're doing and more. It also provides a heat map of your workouts for the previous month automatically, without paying a premium, since you already paid for their watch, via the Suunto app. The Sports Tracker does want payment for certain features.

The Suunto Peak 5

For a while I was sad to see that Suunto had dumped their watch os for Android's watch OS instead and I expected them to fold and give up. It has been a few years since then and Suunto is still around and adding features, which is why I decided to plunge and revert to Suunto watches. The Suunto Peak 5 is the cheapest watch they sell, for 139 CHF if you're not bothered by colour and looks.

I have now worn the watch for several days and worn it 24 hours a day for several days, with no wrist problems, skin problems, app problems or battery problems. It did nag me twice. It nagged me once for starting a workout without waiting for the wrist HR monitor to be ready, and a second time for not waiting for the GPS to be ready. Other than that it has been fine

What I've tracked

I have tracked at least two walks, two bike rides and more. I have also used it as a timer and alarm clock and these features worked fine too. It took a few days before I setup the sleep function but for two or three days my sleep has been tracked.

Compared to the Spartan Wrist HR Baro

Compared to the Suunto Spartan Wrist HR Baro it's small and elegant. It fits nicely on the wrist. Instead of having a strap that has a think through which you thread the strap it has a button, like with the apple watch but for the end of the strap. It doesn't flap around or get loose when you're showering or doing sports. With the Garmin Instinct and other watches it's easy for the strap to come lose and flap around.

No Buyer's Remorse, So Far

The Suunto Peak 5 is not a new watch. It has been around for years. I didn't get it because I was annoyed that Suunto had changed OS, but also because I felt that it was not an upgrade compared to the Suunto Spartan Wrist HR baro. It has fewer features but that can be used for fitness training. Due to the heatwave I haven't been pushing as hard as I would with lower temperatures.

Amused by the Old Charger

One of the surprises when I opened the packaging was the charging cable. It's the same as I had for the ambit 3 and other devices, rather than the spartan. The new cable is shorter though, so it's nice that I can now choose between using the old charging cable when I need more reach, or the new one when I want to save on weight, or waste less energy on cable resistance.

The Case for Cheaper Watches

The range in price for Suunto watches is from 139 CHF for the Suunto Peak 5 to over 800 CHF for the Peak 9. The normal range is from 300 CHF upwards. In contrast the Apple Watch SE starts from 255 CHF upwards, but it has to be charged almost daily and it is fragile.

In my experience, and as you can read from certain reviews watches like the Peak 5 cost less but give the same user experience as the more expensive watches. Several reviews speak about how good the GPS is, and how light the watch is. They also speak about how good the battery is. It's ideal for my use case.

And Finally

The Suunto 5 Peak, despite being a cheap watch provides a lot of functionality. The Garmin 45s is cheaper, lighter, and smaller, but it doesn't feel as well finished and the GPS is more erratic. As I struggled with the conclusion to this blog post I checked the GPS track of my walk yesterday. I was geocaching at two points so I looked at the squiggles when I was under trees and a bridge and the tracks are crisp. I am using GPS and Galileo combined.

So far I am very happy with the Suunto 5 Peak. If you're looking for a low cost tracker, to use daily, then it works well.

#fitness-training #sports-tracker #suunto

https://blog.main-vision.com/the-suunto-5-peak-and-suunto-app/

# parque_metropolitano_da__Biodiversidade #PMB #vaidebicla
#sportstracker #Cycling https://www.sports-tracker.com

#vaidebicla
#sportstracker #Cycling https://www.sports-tracker.com

9.5 months of e-road cycling and e-mountain biking in orange on the map.
(The app is #SportsTracker if you’re curious)
Today I passed 2200 kilometers!

#BikeTooter #vtt #vttae #eMTB #vtt06

#vaidebicla
#sportstracker #Cycling https://www.sports-tracker.com

#vaidebicla
#sportstracker #Cycling https://www.sports-tracker.com

Inzwischen ist @FitTrackee DAS Lauftagebuch meiner Wahl und ich nutze es auch für Radtouren und Wanderungen. In Verbindung mit dem Sporttracker #Opentracks von @dennisguse ein super Gespann, dazu selbst gehostet und #opensource .

Für alle die #Fittrackee einmal testen oder dauerhaft nutzen möchten, habe ich meine Instanz nun für Registrierungen offen:
https://fittrackee.escuco.de

@fedibikes_de

#running #laufen #biking #radfahren #tracking #sportstracker #lauftagebuch #selfhosting

#DailyExercise #fitness #sport

470th activity recorded this year according to #SportsTracker \o/

(That’s nearly two per day on average)

Nörtin kuntoilu – lisäpotkua vimpaimista

https://teuvovaisanen.fi/2017/11/10/nortin-kuntoilu-lisapotkua-vimpaimista/