It seems that a few of the awards require workouts to be created by Apple's native app and will not take into account workouts created by third party apps like WorkOutDoors.
Last weekend I ran a half marathon in NY, at my wife's pace, so I took it very relaxed. But I had a problem that had never occurred to me… if you see in the images I was running below sea level until approximately 14K…. There you can see a drop of 783 meters (something that is clearly impossible to see in Central Park) and then the height was 500 meters above sea level…. some calibration or height calculation with the barometer because at more or less that height the climate changed (it went from heavy rain to stopping rain). I have a UW and in setting Use Always on Altimeter is disabled. I share some photos
That is odd. Please could you send me the wkt file for that workout and I will take a look. To do this tap the Export button 3 times quickly and send it to info@workoutdoors.net
Yes, WOD uses Apple's workout system, so all workouts are automatically saved in their Health system.
That is odd. I have used WOD for many years and have never had a walking/hiking workout fail to be credited for award or challenge (distance, time or calories).
The app doesn't specifically do anything with heart rate recovery because it happens after a workout has ended. I do see values in Apple Health but only every couple of weeks, which is much more often than you but definitely not after every workout. I assume Apple only calculate it under certain conditions.
As @rbart says the app doesn't use GPS for altitude but instead uses the barometer or the altimeter. The barometer only gives relative elevation, so it uses the GPS for absolute elevation, but elevation gain is calculated from relative elevation anyway, so GPS is not used.
I assumed the app wasn’t responsible for it, I was more or less curious if other people had the same experience. For the past three runs I switched up my routine where I pause and then immediately end the run and it’s recorded a recovery every time. It would be cool if WOD could give you a 2min count down and display your HR after ending a run. This is similar to what Garmin does.
What is odd is my old routine of pausing the run and then cooling down for 2 mins before ending it would always show the recovery if you opened the activity in the Fitness app but never logs it in the HealthApp. So it isn't like Apple isn't always watching, even if I haven't actually ended the run in WOD. I feel like this is a bug that was introduced by Apple. Looking back in my data it looks like this behavior changed early in August of 2022 (iOS 16 released in September of 22, my guess is I switched to 16 beta early in August). Before that it would log a recovery after every single run, even if I didn't end the run right after pausing. I'm going to report this to Apple but I doubt anything will come of it.
To be honest it's rare that anyone ever mentions recovery heart rates to me so I don't know if anything changed with iOS 16. However it sounds like the sort of possibly unintentional change that would be most likely to happen with a major release.
I haven't heard of any crashes recently. Are you using the latest version of watchOS? There was a rare crash in their text to speech system which the app uses to speak voice alerts, but they fixed that with 10.2.
Yes, if I use this rutiun I get a recovery. My old rutien was to pause but not end the run. I did it this way because it leaves the metrics up so I can still see my HR. If I end the run I get the summery page and can no longer watch my HR drop. Also, on my Garmin watches it would only record a recovery if you paused for at least 2 mins before ending. So this is a habit I’ve carried over from 13 years of running. It’s a hard habit to break and what sucks is my HR drops rapidly in the first few seconds between the time I pause and then end the run so my recovery rate can be wildly different depending on how quick I remember to end the run. Garmin has been in this game long enough to know that recovery needs to be triggered by the pause, not the end. At a crowded finish line at the end of a race I’m going to use the physical buttons to end the race, move out of the finishing area and then fumble with the menu to end the run. In that scenario the recovery rate will be meaningless because it can take a few minutes sometimes just to get to a safe area to play with the watch. Apple clearly doesn’t have runners on their dev team that actually use an Apple Watch or at least not at races.
I don’t think the summery page is the key because I’ve been clicking done and then after it uploads to Strava (I have LTE) and drops back to the main menu, I switch to the HR app to watch my HR drop. It’s ending the run that ends the “workout” session in Apple’s system and also triggers Fitness focus to end and this is where Apple (not WOD) starts tracking the recovery.
I agree that it is not the summary page because, as you say, the workout is saved to Apple's Health system when it is ended and that is when they start recording the recovery information. So it should be recording the recovery whilst the summary is displayed and will continue to record it regardless of what WOD is doing.
