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New toy to help me

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Alec3720Graduate
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After many months of deliberation I decided to get a Fitbit Versa to fully track my health as although I am running now and still cycling I had no way of tracking my heart health and recovery times. So tomorrow when I go for my run I will see how useful the data is. It is linked to Strava and I have just taken a 2 month free upgrade with them.

Quick update in progress slowly pushing time down on the 5kms and able to push myself to nearly 8km. Should reach 10km by end of summer.

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Dtay1978Graduate

I do love a new gadget, enjoy 😊

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Serenity_runnerGraduate

I just got a versa yesterday and am sorting my settings out now. Be interested to hear how you get on. Just did my home work out but it doesnt seem to have picked it up. I suspect user error.r running later so will see how that goes. It picked up my bike ride with the kids yesterday but the most my heart rate rose was watching them nearly collide with Walkers lol

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Jell6Graduate in reply to Serenity_runner

I have a versa 2 ( not much different really). It will only automatically pick up exercise if it's 15 minutes or longer.

Perhaps that's why.

If you manually select the exercise it will count anything, even 30 seconds 😅

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