Running with the Apple Training app

[xDKP]

Sorry, off topic.. What was the overall experience like ? Expensive ? Wife and I are looking for a place to go for our 10nth wedding anniversary. We've visited much of Italy but not Sardinia.

Some of the best beaches in Europe - I’m more a fan of the typical Italian cuisine than the Sardinian but would still very much recommend a visit

 

[xDKP]

Just ran as a pacer in Copenhagen Half today with 1:35 as finishing goal. The race pacer mode was once again perfect as it was showing real time how many seconds we had in “the bank”. Pretty important to not run too fast and stay just below the pace.

One of the other guys with his Garmin made brain gymnastics at every km sign to make sure we were spot on. No need with the race pacer

 

[quarq]

@xDKP I guess that's using how far you have travelled as supposed to how much of the course you actually travelled (ignoring weaving and non optimal route etc) ?

 

[xDKP]

@xDKP I guess that's using how far you have travelled as supposed to how much of the course you actually travelled (ignoring weaving and non optimal route etc) ?

Well it's not really taking the "real route" into account, but just shows the distance, current and average pace. You put the race distance and what your goal time is, so it can show the bar at the top of how many seconds you are ahead/behind your goal (not my picture, but shows it)

 

[Jana_CZ]

I am also interested how I can manage race routes with this feature.

Ok I tried playing with this:
- there seems to be an option to delete unneeded routes, that's good
- however, it's not a simple swipe-to-delete, you have to open each, tap the top right corner menu, and then use the delete option
- it looks like there's a bug: I've deleted a route in the iPhone but it was still showing up on AW; when checking the list of routes on iPhone again, the route was still there, even repeated deleting attempts haven't had any impact (there's no error message or anything, the route seems to get deleted, but when you open the list of routes again, it's still sitting there)
- also, we still can NOT (re)name the routes, meaning lots of clueless scrolling when actually wanting to use a specific race route 🫤

Can anyone please try the route deleting to confirm whether it works for them?

 

[xDKP]

Another new this recently - The updated Strava app for Apple Watch (about f****** time) is out. Have segments and other stuff included but missing maybe the biggest opportunity ever: routable maps.

I use Strava a lot on vacations for maps and getting good routes but need to export and import it into Footpath. Single solution from Strava would be pretty good

Any one tested it?

Just tried the Strava app yesterday - not gonna use that again... Outside of showing you closing up on a segment and chasing a PR on same segment, it didn't really bring anything to the table - no maps, no navigation (huge miss) and it doesn't even show my run in the Fitness app like all other does

 

[rbart]

Strava was the worst running app on watchOS, it has improved (a bit) but it's far from any other app, including independent apps ...
How is it possible for such company to do that ?
And I see many people using this "thing" ...
I can't understand why.
The iOS app is great for centralizing data, but the watch app is shameful ...

 

[Jana_CZ]

Strava was the worst running app on watchOS, it has improved (a bit) but it's far from any other app, including independent apps ...
How is it possible for such company to do that ?
And I see many people using this "thing" ...
I can't understand why.
The iOS app is great for centralizing data, but the watch app is shameful ...

Personally, I like Strava for record keeping, but I don't use it for recording (tried that once and no thanks). I just sync the activities to Strava afterwards. People I know do the same. It would be interesting to see the actual data - number of Strava users vs. number of users that actually use it for activities recording.

 

[rbart]

Most runners/cyclist use Strava for syncing data.
No problem with that (if we take care of some social network deviance ...)
Luckily, we don't need to use the watch app for that.

 

[Jana_CZ]

Another WatchOS 26 question for y'all - especially those with non-English / non-Siri region:

I went for a run and found out that the voice notifications have changed. I've alerted been using US English voice Siri but my iPhone and Watch are set to Czech, and my Watch voice notifications have always been in Czech (not Siri) as well. But after upgrading to 26, this changed to the Siri voice. And it's a disaster - some parts are completely missing (e.g. exercise paused / resumed) and replaced with silence (music gets muted for a moment as if there was a notification). Other parts are a ridiculous mess - as if an American tried to read a phonetically written Czech text... 🤦‍♀️

Can please anyone try and respond how it works for them? Thanks!