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Sense Bike Workout Split times

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‎05-10-2021 05:01

‎05-10-2021 05:01

Is there a way to see my splits, when doing a bike workout?  Looking for each mile split time.  I thought I saw a 5 mile interval setting, but I have not tried this yet.  Otherwise good watch, but if I can't track and improve my splits, its going back.

TIA

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‎05-10-2021 08:05

‎05-10-2021 08:05

I just verified the smallest "lap" distance for bike is 5 miles, but if you pretend it is a Walk or Run, you can set laps to half miles.  I suppose this is because of greater distances usually done on bike vs. walk or run.

I think the only difference by call it a run would be what the workout is labeled.

Before posting, re-read to see if it would make sense to someone else not looking at your Fitbit or phone.

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‎05-10-2021 08:07

In response to JohnnyRow

‎05-10-2021 08:07

Thank you, between this and the inaccurate floor count, I am returning the watch to Costco.  For this much money it should work better.

Peter

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‎05-17-2021 05:06

In response to JohnnyRow

‎05-17-2021 05:06

I did try your suggestion this weekend while I am awaiting my new Garmin Venu 2.  Although I was able to set the splits to 1 mile, the exercise app kept stopping. It recorded the GPS track, but the times were all messed up.

 

Good try though.

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‎05-17-2021 06:36

In response to djpeterdj

‎05-17-2021 06:36

@djpeterdj I don't think using run or walk would work because these modes calculate distance based on steps and stride (which are irrelevant on the bike) so no wonder the final readings came up messed up.

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‎05-17-2021 07:34

In response to t.parker

‎05-17-2021 07:34

True, I've seen in the Fitbit Wishlist Community that someone asked for the bike splits sometime in 2018.  Obviously Fitbit does not pay too much attention to this forum, and really doesn't care about our wishes.

Looking forward to returning this to Costco, and waiting on the release of the new Garmin Venu 2.

 

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‎05-17-2021 08:04

In response to t.parker

‎05-17-2021 08:04

@t.parker  For Walk or Run, you can choose to use GPS or not, just for Bike.

Before posting, re-read to see if it would make sense to someone else not looking at your Fitbit or phone.

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‎05-17-2021 08:12

In response to JohnnyRow

‎05-17-2021 08:12

@JohnnyRow yes but for Run and Walk the GPS is not used when it comes to computing the distance (easy to test so I have no doubts about how it really works) but only to automatically adjust stride length. In fact, if someone runs and cycle and uses automatic stride length then I wouldn't recommend mixing up both types of exercises because "running on a bike" probably will break the stride length.

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