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Biking in Japan is a lot like playing the classic game Paperboy, \u00a0many ways to die if you aren’t careful. \u00a0Looking at your watch has to be done in a quick glance.<\/p>\n
The Apple Watch is definitely the wrong device\u00a0for this due to the lag in the screen turning on.<\/p>\n
In the end, I started\u00a0doing a\u00a0wildly exaggerated wrist motion, waiting a second or so, then glancing down. The sad part is even then sometimes the watch screen wouldn’t turn on at all.<\/p>\n
Problem 2: \u00a0The heart monitor<\/strong><\/p>\n This may be a problem with my wrist in general (no, I don’t have a tattoo) but it really does a poor job of reading my heart rate. \u00a0I’d say it can do it about 20% of the time. \u00a0It’s not uncommon to get a 170 BPM reading and then show only 90 BPM ten seconds later. \u00a0Most of the time the heart rate information is dark red meaning “couldn’t get a reading recently”. \u00a0I sweat rather profusely when biking so maybe that’s the problem.<\/p>\n Sometimes I’d get a reading of 0 and wonder if\u00a0my heart actually stopped.<\/p>\n Problem 3: The battery<\/strong><\/p>\n When the Apple Watch has trouble reading your heart rate, it turns on additional LEDS on the bottom of the watch to.. I don’t know, look at your blood veins or something. \u00a0I suspect this (combined with having work out mode enabled) is how I could go from 100% battery to 0% in under four hours.<\/p>\n If the heart rate monitoring Gods smile upon your wrist, you may not have this issue.<\/p>\n Problem 4: \u00a0The software<\/strong><\/p>\n Strava’s watch integration\u00a0is fairly useless\u00a0because after the watch turns off, you have to swipe to get it back. \u00a0I couldn’t get it to stay “in focus” on the watch for very long, maybe because Apple doesn’t allow custom watch faces (yet) and it would require that?<\/p>\n Using the heart rate monitor\u00a0in Strava isn’t supported either, so basically the only thing it’s good for is manually pausing\/unpausing the timer.<\/p>\n I couldn’t figure out any way to show Apple Maps and heart rate data at the same time.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n Waste of time, get a Garmin. You replace the battery in their heart monitor maybe once a year – plus, you really need a speed sensor for your wheel to get reliable\u00a0smart pausing anyway.<\/p>\n So my watch is sitting on the charger, unused. Maybe the Apple Watch 2…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had an Apple Watch for a couple months. The idea was I could throw it on when biking for an easy way to watch my heart rate and possibly use the GPS mapping to not get lost. Problem 1: \u00a0The screen delay Biking in Japan is a lot like playing the classic game Paperboy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}