I did a parkrun in a time I thought was not too shabby and was told gleefully that this was the way of the penguin. I was a bit gutted. Thought I was at least a duck.
The sleep tracker can be useful but I find not accurate. There are two modes, "sensitive" and "normal", a bit like toothpaste. Sensitive will say you are not sleeping every time you move and this gives me an average sleep of about 3 hours a night. The "normal" mode says I have [WAIT! I've just been awarded a "woodpeckers fingers" award for 1 hour of typing]
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Ahh yes, The "normal" mode says I have 9 hours of sleep a night. That is basically the time between when I get into bed and get out in the morning but obviously does not include the hour in the night I am helping to feed babies, the 10 times a night I'll get up to put a dummy back in a babies mouth or the 50 press ups I do while I am waiting for the bottle machine to dispense the milk. (No, that is not a euphemism for "wife")
One of the things I'd like to stick to is the food tracking. I know these things are never perfect and of course you can get too anal about it but it does bring into sharp focus just how many calories I drink in beer and lattes each week. Just the act of logging makes you think a bit more. Though I was distressed that the calories burned on my run to the station are 470, which is 50 less than what my tomtom said, which in turn means I should have been replenishing with the bacon muffin rather than the sausage muffin that I have been doing.
It would be great if you could set it to alarm when you hit a particular heart rate, I normally suffer a mild bradycardia when into the third hour of a large powerpoint so would be useful to get zapped so that I don't look so obviously asleep.
The way so many tech companies seem to go is to not have a manual but a forum where anything we need to ask we ask others to figure out for us and if there are improvements to be made then add them to this list and our developers will enthusiastically go "YAY for that!" and then go out and buy more chinos.
Overall though I have to admit I quite like this. Perhaps it's not doing anything very well it is doing lots of things quite well and the graphs are pretty. Hopefully they will work on making it's current features better rather than adding new ones.
Now that I am more sedentary, or rather now that I am finding exercise harder to come by. The charge lasts a few days with normal use (I think only 5 hours of running, no one runs for more than 5 hours do they!). I wish it did everything better but it at least does most things well enough to be of some use.
It's not for someone who is serious about running (or any sport). Now my life has changed a bit I need to be mindful of getting enough movement. I reckon I've done about a marathon of burping babies already this year.
Totally counts.
