I went cross country skiing with my Blaze for the first time last night. It has no specific exercise mode for skiing, so I tried running and walking. I connected to the GPS on my iPhone6. The problem was that I want to display heart rate only. But the watch started by itself to circulate between pace, distance etc. So I had to stop, take off my gloves and force it back to heart rate display, just to find that after a few minutes it was back on pace or whatever else I did not want to see.
This is disappointing. It makes the device useless for heartrate monitoring during skiing. You don’t want to stop and take off your gloves each time you want to monitor. It actually never went back to heart rate by itself, by the way.
My questions are:
- Is the Blaze supposed to circulate automatically between measurements like this? Can I turn this off?
- Could it be my jacket or gloves, which partly covers the watch, touches the screen and by accident orders it to change the display? If so, is it possible to lock the screen (turn off the touch functionality) using the knobs?
As it is now, I cannot use the Exercise mode for skiing. The only option to monitor heart rate is the colors on the "Zone" clock face. But then I lose the GPS features and the possibility to check distance while skiing.
BTW, I noticed the "Secondary display" option in the Running mode where I can choose Heart Rate. Unfortunately the digits of the secondary display are too small for me to read without glasses. Using glasses while skiing is not an option.
Any solutions, please?
