Exercise Mode: Custom Vibrations

[anoble18]

Sometimes when I go for a run I like to see when I'm halfway done so I can turn around, but I have to keep looking at my watch to see when it reaches my intended halfway mark. For example, let's say I want to go on a 30 minute run, 15 minutes out and 15 minutes back. I don't think it'd be very efficient to have to keep looking at your time. I think a feature should be added that allows you to set custom vibrations after a certain amount of minutes. Let's just say I want the watch to vibrate after 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 12 minutes, and 16 minutes. I think you should be able to set small "alarms" for you once the stopwatch reaches that amount of time. I really hope you put this into consideration! Thanks!

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[Makara]

Run Cues might be the feature you're looking for and it is available on the Surge and Blaze. 

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-do-I-track-my-splits-during-a-run

[dcurtis11]

I agree with this - and I would also love if the display could change when I am tracking exercise. For example, like what anoble18 says, if I am going on a 5 mile run, I need to turn around at 2.5. I would love if we could set the display to show distance or time of the exercise when we look at the face - not just the time of day. That way, I wouldn't have to pull out my phone when I get to 2.5 miles. The run cues can tell you either distance or time, but not both - since not all of my miles are the same, I need a cue at a distance, but I do like hearing the time each mile.

[T00NCES]

Currently the run cues are only integer miles or minutes. There should be way more customization here. Specific buzz patterns for pace goals would be fun... It's too generic now.

[dordale]

The alta has a silent alarm feature--would be very useful to set this as a timer as suggested here--to go off after a certain number of minutes rather than a set time.  I would also like the option to set a "reminder" to go off after a certain number of steps--so if I want to get an additional 2000 steps, I could set the reminder to let me know when I hit 1000 steps--so that would know that I can turn around and go back and meet my goal.

[byronsnake]

I'd like to see the vibration when I start and activity to be different from when I end an activity.  I sometimes forget to press the button on my Charge HR to start an activity when I'm outside.  If I'm in bright sunlight, I can't see the display, and there's no way to tell if I've started the activity on my Fitbit.  If the vibrations are different, I can always tell whether I've started activity logging or not.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi everybody! That’s an interesting idea and could be useful, thanks for sharing this suggestion. Keen to hear what others think?