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Trail Running

It would be a great feature if we were able to log trail running as an activity especially since road running and trail running are two different animals. Trail running is more intense, more challenging, burns more calories and requires more overall whole body muscle engagement than road running. 

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@Busy1234 this is true that trail and road running are almost entirely different sports yet that would be only a label on Fitbit and rather useless because you can't aggregate data per sport (ie. see only particular type of activity, aggregate data like total elevation gain, mileage, etc.). I'm 90% trail runner and have a trail running option on my Garmin but I find it rather redundant (the only use of it would be turning off automatic adjustment for VO2Max and thresholds). It would be nice to have a label but if there is a label then it must be a reason for it. Fitbit with current sports tracking support has no reason for it. Trail running, to be useful would need a lot more like tracking surfaces (that would be awesome if could be imported from software like Komoot), hilliness, hike/run (this I like on Garmin, especially when running ultra distances I want to know where and how long I hiked), and maybe working out some "technical score" (how technically challenging the route was). Yet Fitbit doesn't support some basics for road running 🤷. It's not a platform for runners and definitely for trail runners considering that they removed altimeter (and elevation tracking) from many devices.

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