No Triathlon activity on Pixel Watch

[haddat]

It seems that there is no Triathlon activity available on Pixel Watch 4 with Fitbit. 

Or doesn't Fitbit support triathlon or other comparable multi-sports activities at all?

I'm coming from the Garmin world. There it is possible to define multiple sports activities in a row which can be manually switched or with auto sensing.

[Gr4ndp4]

Hi, @haddat, welcome to the community. You can put forward your suggestions for features at the Fitbit Community. In the search bar, you'll note  Triathlon And Biathlon - Fitbit Community, originally dated 2017, which seems inactive. Fitbit & Garmin seem to be aimed at different users. Recent developments at Fitbit have seen a notable increase in the activities that can be tracked & recorded, and it is of course possible to separately record runs, cycling & swimming.

I hope this helps.

Cheers

[haddat]

Hi Gr4ndp4,

thx for your message.

Of course you can separately track & record run, cycling & swimming. But imagine if you do a triathlon and need to click back and forth just to select the next discipline. That's ridiculous and time consuming. And you cannot track & record the transition times in triathlon (the time where you change your clothes & gears for the next discipline) if you manually switch the activities.

It's not just Garmin and Garmin Connect which is able to track & record combination sports or multi-sports activities. Also Apple watch & its sport/health software is able to do that. And the Apple watch is not a fitness watch like a Garmin, it's a smart watch like Google Pixel watch 4.

[Triletics]

Notice that to support triathlon first there would have to be a support for OWS and as far as I am aware, OWS isn't supported by Fitbit platform and swim tracking is very limited to bare minimum. Fitbit isn't a platform targetting triathletes (or even regular athletes) and unlikely it will have support for "athletic" use cases. It's a casual beginner-friendly health and fitness tracking platform not sports platform.

[haddat]

Triathlon was just an example of other multi-sports activities. If Fitbit has problems with swimming let's choose Duathlon (running & biking). Any combination of different sport discipline which are executed in a row. I do biking, running, biking.

Interesting that you say "Fitbit isn't a platform targetting ... or even regular athletes". I've heard that a few times. Funny, even Google Gemini says that Fitbit is not for committed recreational athletes.

[Triletics]

@haddat I think it was always like that. I joined Fitbit when I needed to get fit and needed some simple and entry-level tool for it but the more I got fit the less Fitbit had to offer. Eventually, I needed features that Fitbit doesn't and probably won't offer so moved to more dedicated devices. We are not bound to one brand and we should pick right tool for the job. If one doesn't tick the boxes then another one may. Waiting for things to change in certain direcrion is waste of time in my opinion if that direction is not within particular brand context.