This is ridiculous. I've had my Blaze since Christmas and have been using it faithfully since the beginning of January. It's not accurate, not by a long shot. This morning, I walked 3.5 miles on my treadmill. At 1 mile on the treadmill, the Blaze recorded .66 mile. Til I got the 3.5 miles in, the Blaze recorded 2 miles! I've tried using the Exercise/Treadmill app on the Blaze and got the same thing. According to the Blaze, it's taking me 33 minutes to walk one mile. No way. Not at 3.8 mph. No way.
When I go for my 3-mile walk over lunch at work, I'm lucky to have the Blaze record 1.5 miles. Those are a lot of miles for the Blaze not to track during the week. Think about it. That's 3 miles a day, 21 miles every week that the Blaze isn't tracking. That's a lot of steps!
I'm also doing the 250 steps every hour. Obviously, that's not accurate either.
Yesterday, I was about a half-mile short of getting in 100,000 steps for the week on the Blaze. So I started walking. I got to where I needed two steps to finish. After I walked 11 steps, the Blaze finally recorded the last step I needed to get my 100,000 steps in. It's not accurate. Not at all.
I've been trying to adjust my stride length. My stride is about 2 feet, 6 inches. I moved it up to 3 feet, thinking that might give me more of a decent recording for the Blaze. It's not working.
This is an expensive paper-weight. Can somebody help me? Please.
ETA: It doesn't matter if I walk with my arms down and moving by my side or if I walk with my arms crooked at the elbows and moving that way. The result is the same. I used to put my Flex in my pocket when I walked to get a more accurate reading. I don't want to do that with my Blaze because of tracking heartrate.
Thanks!
