Sunday

[susandennis]

I got into the pool early today since I was there when the front desk lady arrived. She lets me in and then locks the door behind us so she can get set up. It's always fun to get a 10 minute head start. At 8, my two favorite swim buddies showed up so we each had a lane. We had the pool to ourselves for about 40 minutes. It was fun.

Now I'm home and I'm breakfasted. I need to clean up the kitchen and then trot the rubbish down to the garage bins. And then I can sew.

I'm in a fitness tracking crisis. My Misfit Shine which I have now been wearing religiously for a year and a week is having issues again. About every 4th time they update the app, they fuck it up. I have to uninstall and then find an APK of a previous version to install. It's getting old. Plus they were bought out by Fossil who just revealed their latest smart watch which is butt ugly and the size of an SUV. I'm sure they are going to suck up all the Misfit brains for it and not the old Misfit products.

And I want something that counts laps while I'm swimming anyway and shows me the count plus does other fitness stuff, too. Garmin has a watch that is really huge and not great looking and very expensive. But they have been in the swim tracking game a long time. So I bought their fitness band. It took me all of 1 hour to figure out it sucked. It's too big and too ugly and, actually, does not track swimming. It tracks movement but not swimming and definitely won't count my laps. So back to Amazon it goes.

Next up is the Pebble Time watch. It has a better shot at working like I want. I just am not sure about how it looks. Well, as I typed that last sentence, it was delivered! And it's not as huge as I thought.

Well, that was an hour ago. Now the watch is all set up and talking to my phone and ready for tomorrow's swim. I think this may be a keeper!

But, alas, the kitchen is still not clean and I haven't even hung up my wet sit yet. Geesh.

Comments

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I like my garmin,but I don't have to track laps. I have become fascinated with the sleep tracking. Every morning I synch it to see my sleep patterns. My conclusion is that when I sleep longer, I feel better in the morning. lol!

[susandennis]

I've been tracking my sleep for a while and have never been able to correlate times with how I feel. Weird. But, also, it makes zero diff how much or how little sleep I get since I never have to be rested and refreshed for anything :)

[legalmoose]

Did I ever share the DC Rainmaker web site with you? He does pretty good, in-depth reviews of pretty much every fitness tracker and training watch out there.

But yeah, in my experience Garmin is generally really good with their high end things, and okay with their entry level things, but the high end ones tend to be information overload (and cost a good chunk) and the entry level ones never give quite enough feedback.

[susandennis]

Nice site! I'm glad I looked at the Vivofit. The watch didn't tempt me and now I'm over the Vivofit.

Didn't you say that your better half had a Pebble that didn't always work? I've got high hopes for this one. I'm hoping that he and others have helped them work out all the kinks now. :)

[legalmoose]

Yeah, his was the first gen, so bug central. I'm guessing they've had enough time to work out the kinks. :)

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

I love my Pebble Time. That's how I use Misfit actually. I installed the Pebble Misfit app, and on my way I went. =)
I love getting notifications, and using the canned texts when I can't dig for my phone. For me the timer and alarms get used quite a bit. I just got the Checklist app recently. I've only used it twice so far, but it's pretty neat to speak to that app and have it transcribe it.
Enjoy your new gadget!

[susandennis]

Oh thank you!! I used an app that connected to Evernote for my grocery list and it was ok but Checklist is WAY better!

The Misfit app works kind of differently when fed by Pebble than when fed by Shine but it's a difference I can live with. I sure do appreciate the continuity!

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. Pebble is quite the fun gadget. =)