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I ran inside today for the first time since I think late May. Well, it was raining, and I had a new playlist and a new fitbit, so it’s perhaps just as well. At any rate, 5K in 37:21 is one of my best times, so it probably did me good.
I am not best pleased with the FitBit Alta. It doesn’t have a button on the side the way the Charge did, which you could use to tell the Charge “Hey, I’m starting a workout now”. The Alta is supposed to sense when you’re working out and do it automatically, but it only senses a workout if you’ve been doing it for ten minutes or more, and apparently running with walk intervals doesn’t count as a single activity. So it didn’t sense the 5K I just ran, because after eight minutes I stopped to walk for a minute and a half.
But I thought, okay, I’ll just check my stop time and enter my workout from my start/stop times. Except when you manually enter a workout, it just mocks up a report on it – it doesn’t go in and pull the activity data from that time period, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS ACCESS TO IT. I might as well write down my times on a sheet of scratch paper for all the good it does.
So I’m thinking of selling the Alta and buying a Charge HR. I can probably get about $80-$100 for it and $50 isn’t bad to pay for an upgrade. On the other hand, I just discovered a corner of the app where you can use your phone to tell the FitBit that you’re starting a workout, which is clumsier than the Charge but at least a little more functional than the Alta. I’ll give it until the weekend, we’ll see how much of a pain in the ass this setup actually is and if it’s tolerable.
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I am not best pleased with the FitBit Alta. It doesn’t have a button on the side the way the Charge did, which you could use to tell the Charge “Hey, I’m starting a workout now”. The Alta is supposed to sense when you’re working out and do it automatically, but it only senses a workout if you’ve been doing it for ten minutes or more, and apparently running with walk intervals doesn’t count as a single activity. So it didn’t sense the 5K I just ran, because after eight minutes I stopped to walk for a minute and a half.
But I thought, okay, I’ll just check my stop time and enter my workout from my start/stop times. Except when you manually enter a workout, it just mocks up a report on it – it doesn’t go in and pull the activity data from that time period, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS ACCESS TO IT. I might as well write down my times on a sheet of scratch paper for all the good it does.
So I’m thinking of selling the Alta and buying a Charge HR. I can probably get about $80-$100 for it and $50 isn’t bad to pay for an upgrade. On the other hand, I just discovered a corner of the app where you can use your phone to tell the FitBit that you’re starting a workout, which is clumsier than the Charge but at least a little more functional than the Alta. I’ll give it until the weekend, we’ll see how much of a pain in the ass this setup actually is and if it’s tolerable.
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