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Still no auto pause for Cycling or walking.
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Not dense, just not explaining yourself well.
Reading between the lines, the only explanation I can come up with would be that you don't want double Strava syncs as you're getting one sync from the Wahoo to Strava, then you want a record of that activity on the Apple Health app.
Is that the situation?
Yep, one here (cycle 30 miles everyday) I use Strava on my watch, that has auto pause. Only use the watch workout app for walking & swimming.
Sort of....
I don’t want the double sync but still like the watch native cycling workout(stand alone )
Also not aware on how to sync my Strava w/o onto the watch activity app
As it seems I might have restarted this fun: I've been using workout app on Apple watch for riding and then transferring data to Strava using healthfit app which has worked well.
But as a lot of my cycling is commuting I much prefer auto-pause (which I had on strava app on phone before I got the watch) as I prefer to know roughly how long I've cycled, not how long I've stared at red lights in London (yes some of us do occasionally wait for the lights to change....
or sometimes when I arrive I've forgotten to stop it or if I stop off at supermarket on way home and sometimes forget to pause it.
But had read and heard a lot of issues with strava app on watch and initially had trouble getting the two to sync and also I like in the apple workout being able to just switch screen quickly to control music - see what's playing etc (when waiting at those lights).
But just done a couple of trips with Strava app on phone (which has auto pause) and it seems to be working so I guess will use that for now until Apple introduce it.
But as a lot of my cycling is commuting I much prefer auto-pause (which I had on strava app on phone before I got the watch) as I prefer to know roughly how long I've cycled, not how long I've stared at red lights in London (yes some of us do occasionally wait for the lights to change....
or sometimes when I arrive I've forgotten to stop it or if I stop off at supermarket on way home and sometimes forget to pause it.But had read and heard a lot of issues with strava app on watch and initially had trouble getting the two to sync and also I like in the apple workout being able to just switch screen quickly to control music - see what's playing etc (when waiting at those lights).
But just done a couple of trips with Strava app on phone (which has auto pause) and it seems to be working so I guess will use that for now until Apple introduce it.
Essentially it's all a mess because everyone's competing. Strava and Trainingpeaks won't sync to each other. To get anything off of Apple's Healthkit you need to use a third party app. And even if you do manually down and re-up files (who can be arsed!) you still risk stripping data (eg. GPX files lose heart rate data if you d/l and u/l to another site, like from Strava to TrainingPeaks, in which case you need a browser plugin for Strava on Chrome to d/l as TCX instead before re-upping!).
What a joke!
And then you get into the Yoga and cross-training.. very few of those apps that record time and heart rate have any meaningful partnership with any decent platform like TP or Strava. The whole fitness/health thing is a complete mess. Hardware is there, software is niche and miserable. It's a massive pain to have all your workouts and daily activity in one place and analysed meaningfully. Pathetic.
What a joke!
And then you get into the Yoga and cross-training.. very few of those apps that record time and heart rate have any meaningful partnership with any decent platform like TP or Strava. The whole fitness/health thing is a complete mess. Hardware is there, software is niche and miserable. It's a massive pain to have all your workouts and daily activity in one place and analysed meaningfully. Pathetic.
[doublepost=1538938370][/doublepost]Well my 2 Garmins auto pause and on a ride last week they both showed 33 miles the Apple Watch doesn’t pause and adds miles to your ride, it showed 46 miles. That is not acceptable.
I’d assume just like the watch can auto detect workouts, if you’re stationary enough after starting a cycling session on Apple Watch you will get an alert asking are you still cycling like it does for other workouts. Although I haven’t tested it.
Replying to an old post but yes it is absolutely laughable that this feature is missing. Even the cheapest Garmin Edge has it. Shame on you Apple!
I have had more than one instance while using the 'other' workout while walking where the AW5 asked if I wanted to pause or end my workout as it thought I was finished. Totally annoying as I was actually MOVING at a brisk pace. So, it pauses (or asks to pause) when I don't want it to, but doesn't when it should? Not good.
I thought I wanted auto pause until I started being asked if I wanted to end my bike ride because I took a minute to look at something.
Frankly, I don’t understand the hyper specific workout tracking to begin with. If I’m out biking for two hours and decide to look at something for 10 minutes my workout is still two hours.
Frankly, I don’t understand the hyper specific workout tracking to begin with. If I’m out biking for two hours and decide to look at something for 10 minutes my workout is still two hours.
True.
But if someone wanted to compare the average heart rate between different sessions, the ones in which he forgot to pause will have significantly lower ave. HR than the one that didn't need a pause or the one in which he remembered to pause.
I like to maintain the HR above 142 bpm.
The average speed will suffer as well if one forgets to pause.
All true, but again I don’t like being that hyper precise with my tracking personally. I get that others do. For me it’s just nice to know that I biked 10+ miles 3 or 4 times.
I’m not hyper sensitive in the tracking of my cycling with the watch either. Part of that is because I have forgotten to start the workout again after pausing. I arrive home to stop the recording to find I never started again. Frustrating. I have talked myself into feeling like I should include the break when I take one because it is after all part of the ride. Choice...let me chose to use the feature or not. My Garmin bike computer pauses and records speed/heart rate but I dont want to bring it inside to connect to the computer. I guess newer models are wireless but I have not upgraded in years since it meets my needs otherwise.