I agree — steer clear of the Nike app. It's been absolute rubbish ever since the overhaul a year and a half ago, and will cause you nothing but frustration. (And this is coming from somebody who has logged 27,500 Nike+ miles and bought a Nike+ Apple Watch.)Just don’t do Nike app.
JUST DO WorkOutDoors app. It’s fantastical.
I use NRC and run several times per week. I think that's a pretty unfair generalization of people who use NRC, nor do I see that hypothesis supported anywhere in the threads. What kinds of observations are you basing that on?Read this thread, especially the last pages:
Running with the AW2
Sure, you can have fun with the NRC, but most of the people who enjoy it are rather casuals that run once per week, based on my observations.
I use NRC and run several times per week. I think that's a pretty unfair generalization of people who use NRC, nor do I see that hypothesis supported anywhere in the threads. What kinds of observations are you basing that on?
I am personally in love with Walkmeter. It is not free but built with passion.What do you like better on your Apple Watch for running/walking/jogging?
And don't know about the current reliability of NRC, but I suppose that these people who are enojoying the app even the quality is super bad are running once-twice per week for a 2-4 miles. They didn't have any problems since they don't care that much about lags, reliability, quick pauses and app handled such a short distance without a problem.
So for me, this is matter of view: if I use the app every day for 8-10 miles and it crashes and pauses, then some freshman enters the topic and said that app is fine because ran a week ago 2 miles, then...
It's just mildly infuriating to me - people don't provide the apple watch type, how many kilos did they run, etc. so it's problematic to me to find the issue - the app or the slow watch.
My experience (AWS2 Nike+) is that the NRC app is OK (far from great, but OK) on workouts that are shorter than 15K. Anything longer than that, and it's a complete disaster.I wouldn’t say I’m a freshman, but I run a 5K daily, and 1-2 10Ks on the weekend. Sure the NRC app has had some hiccups, but anytime there’s an update I always run through the settings just for good measure and everything has been fine.
AWS3/Nike+, and even before with my S0, I never experienced a crash, just a delay in the information transferring from my iPhone to Apple Watch or sometimes it wouldn’t register on the watch at all, but still track on my iPhone albeit no HR data (I start my runs on my iPhone and view my metrics on the watch).