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January Activity Challenge
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January challenge done. 7 workouts. Weird, although it shows in Recent, it's grayed out for some odd reason. Anyone else have this happen?
Ring in the New Year Challenge done. And it shows up. Close all three rings 7 days in a row.
Ring in the New Year Challenge done. And it shows up. Close all three rings 7 days in a row.
I went to Awards and for a split second I saw it under Recent at the top. Then it vanished and appeared down under Limited Edition Challenges. It shows up properly and in color where it should at the bottom of the collection. I don't know why it doesn't show under Recent. (Recent includes the 5 weekly awards from last week.)
Edit: And now it is back in the first spot under Recent. 🤷🏻♂️
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Check to see if it is in the Limited Edition Challenges section.
(jhf beat me to it)
Ring in the New Year is they in LE but January is not. It’s also not in the Monthly Challenges but is grayed out in Recent. I guess it will show up eventually.
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I misunderstood your original post. I haven't earned the January challenge yet, so it just shows up under ¡Vamos! as a grey in-progress challenge (and also further down under monthly challenges). I hope yours shows up correctly eventually.
Good lord! 100+ miles a month? Why not a challenge to walk all the way to Apple Headquarters in California from Kentucky or something? Sheesh!
That's 3.3 miles a day for a 30 day month. I'd say that's fairly reasonable.
Maths are fun.
Sure, 146/30 = 4.8667, 146/31= 4.709. Still, I'm currently averaging over 5 miles a day, between normal activity and intentional workout. I don't think that's outrageous, which is what you suggested.
Your post that I quoted said '100+' I didn't bother checking exactly.
I barely make 2-3 miles per day. Any more and I'd need a way to counteract all the calories I lost. I'm tiny. It's like Apple wants us all to lose weight all the time. Even if we're at a healthy weight. There's no 'maintain current weight' objective. If I tried for every reward and it kept upping the ante, I'd be like 86 lbs by a year or two.
This is the biggest shortfall to the monthly challenges. The challenges should be built around our goals, whether they be to gain, lose, or maintain weight. Or even if the goal is something like achieving a specific mile run time or something.
Totally agree with this. We should be able to define and adjust goals with challenges built around those. Imagine someone who just had a knee surgery for example. Regardless of pre surgical physical condition, I'm nearly certain their goals would be different than their pre op, pre injury condition. And on a daily basis, I'd be nice to be able to adjust all three rings, not just the move goal.
I just hope the goals/awards are centered around the user. Such as individual body type, age, BMI, anything else I entered into Health. I sure hate the fear of being caught off guard by a goal only Tony Stark could accomplish.
Galaxy Watch and Samsung Health do have goals such as lose x lbs in y days, or maintain current weight, or gain x lbs in y days.
Galaxy Watch and Samsung Health do have goals such as lose x lbs in y days, or maintain current weight, or gain x lbs in y days.
The goals don't appear to have much of anything to do with the user. They just start with where you are now, and rotate through. This month, I have 18,900 calories, or 610 per day on average. Last month I had 179.3 miles, or just shy of 6 miles per day. The month before was 21,900 calories total, etc.
The goals don't have anything specific to do with the user. They don't "care" that I was overweight last January, but not overweight now. They don't care whether I am happy at 160# or want to get down to 150#.
But they do "care" how many calories I burned the last few months or how many miles I ran.
I wouldn't mind seeing customizable goals for weight, miles, calories, VO2max, etc. It would be a nice feature. As it is, the Watch may challenge me to run 300 miles in April at a time when I'm cutting back for my goal marathon.
As for running high mileage, no one starts out running 70 miles per week, not even Tony Stark. It usually takes a few years to get to that point. And even then, it's not 10 miles every day. During a marathon training cycle, I might run 6-8 miles four days in a week, 10-15 miles two days, and 17-20 miles one day. That adds up to 61-82 miles. And usually only one of those runs will be hard/fast (and maybe the long run). The others will be slow/easy. At almost 50, I can't handle the two workouts and a long run that a high school or college runner might do.