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Veterans Day Award

infinityharry

infinityharry

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Oct 29, 2010
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Realised you can also earn the Veterans Day Reward in the UK too! I thought you could only earn in the US
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Check your regional settings on the watch. I got the same notification and when I checked I found my watch was set to US
 
Wimpiest Challenge badge yet o_O (of course Mother's Day was a BIG challenge too:rolleyes:). How is 11 minutes of any Workout much of a challenge? Sort of like the everyone who finishes the race gets a 1st place medal. Is this years Thanksgiving going to be downgraded from a 5K to a 5M "Challenge"?:eek:
 
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This morning, I got a notification that I got the award on my watch but when I now check it on my phone it is not on there yet. Maybe it will eventually show up. The workout mins and calories burned already synced up.

Now my watch is being charged in my hotel room. We will see.
 
Julien said:
Wimpiest Challenge badge yet o_O (of course Mother's Day was a BIG challenge too:rolleyes:). How is 11 minutes of any Workout much of a challenge? Sort of like the everyone who finishes the race gets a 1st place medal. Is this years Thanksgiving going to be downgraded from a 5K to a 5M "Challenge"?:eek:
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Well, its because of the 11/11 theme of Veterans Day. 11km or 11miles would have been too much.
 
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Julien said:
Wimpiest Challenge badge yet o_O (of course Mother's Day was a BIG challenge too:rolleyes:). How is 11 minutes of any Workout much of a challenge? Sort of like the everyone who finishes the race gets a 1st place medal. Is this years Thanksgiving going to be downgraded from a 5K to a 5M "Challenge"?:eek:
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Your comment presumes everyone using the watch is young/healthy. I would imagine there are some users out there, not the majority, but some, for whom 11 minutes is a challenge, and a 5K is completely out of reach.
 
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Achilles75 said:
Your comment presumes everyone using the watch is young/healthy. I would imagine there are some users out there, not the majority, but some, for whom 11 minutes is a challenge, and a 5K is completely out of reach.
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Yeah, but the regular goal starts at 30 minutes. I saw the goal, laughed, and earned it anyway.
 
I completed 20 min of HIIT and didn’t get the badge. Not sure what’s going on.
 
Achilles75 said:
Your comment presumes everyone using the watch is young/healthy. I would imagine there are some users out there, not the majority, but some, for whom 11 minutes is a challenge, and a 5K is completely out of reach.
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....and some people are extremely de-conditioned, some have extremely limited abilities and some can't workout at all. So to be 100% PC just automatically give the Challenge badge to everyone.

It's not much of a Challenge badge if it's not at least moderately challenging to many or most people.

Mother's Day was another example of a non challenging Challenge.
 
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Most challenging part was the 23 degree temp- but I warmed up fast!
 

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Turn off the iPhone and watch. Turn it back again and go for a 11 min. walk using the workout app and should appear.
 
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