Blaze: Exercise Walk Tracking and Auto Run Tracking

[Haert]

Hello -

In my activity history below you will see that my Blaze double tracked my activity. I initiated the 'exercise walk' on my Blaze at 3:50pm and walked for about 30 minutes. I then began running at 4:20pm. I did not turn off the 'exercise walk' until I was done with the full loop about 1:36 hrs later. You will see below that the app added the run at 4:20pm and gave me an additional 2,914 steps and 2.03 miles. I only walked/ran 10,290 steps and 5.54 miles.

Can someone please advise on how I can fix this?

Thank you! 

 

[Baltoscott · Accepted solution]

Hi @Haert

1.  You can delete the run on your computer if you want by hovering your mouse pointer over the activity and using the trash can that appears under "view details" or by swiping left on the activity in the app, but ...

2. You don't have to do that to fix your daily step count.  Why?  Because Fitbit activities that are generated by you starting the activity on your Blaze, or activities that are auto detected, work like snap shots with respect to your daily step count.  Your tracker counts whatever it counts, and the detail in the activity is just that -- a detailed look at what was going on for a time period.  Deleting either activity will leave your daily step and floor totals unaffected and just remove the detail window that the activity represents. 

Hope that answers your question.  Let us know, and enjoy your Blaze!

[Haert]

Thank you for your quick reply @Baltoscott!

I understand I can delete the activity however that is not the issue. The tracker is adding both the walk and the run together which gave me a combined total of 19k steps for the day. In the images below you can see that it is adding all of my activities for the day to get to the 19k total. 

The issue is my run and walk were during the same time period so it is double counting my run for the same steps I took during my 5.54 mile 'walk activity'.

Do you are anyone else have a suggestion on how to fix this besides just deleting the extra activity every time?

Thank you!

Chad

[Baltoscott]

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@Haert wrote:

Thank you for your quick reply @Baltoscott!

I understand I can delete the activity however that is not the issue. The tracker is adding both the walk and the run together which gave me a combined total of 19k steps for the day. In the images below you can see that it is adding all of my activities for the day to get to the 19k total. 

The issue is my run and walk were during the same time period so it is double counting my run for the same steps I took during my 5.54 mile 'walk activity'.

Do you are anyone else have a suggestion on how to fix this besides just deleting the extra activity every time?

Thank you!

Chad

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It is not adding up the activies, Chad, it just looks like that because the sum of the listed activities is close to (though still short of) your total steps for the day. You do many steps throughout the day that don't show up on your activity list at all -- they only show up on the activity list if you start/stop activity on your device, or if you are moving fast enough continuously for 15 minutes for an activity to register automatically.   

You can delete one or all of the listed activities and your total for the day won't change because they are all just snapshots of various time periods during the day.  Try it out so you can convince yourself it won't hurt your totals, and then just leave them there going forward.  

[Haert]

Thank you for clarifying @Baltoscott. It sounds like I need to read more about the purpose and functionality of the activity list. Cheers!