theskyisfalling

Injuries can be depressing as fuck when a lot of your life revolves around being active but at least you are getting some good drugs for free! XD

I usually just alternate my training and shift into other things I can still do like for example when I broke my foot running I started doing a lot more cycling as I could do that without pain.

Gotta keep that motivation up as you say though as it can get pretty depressing not being able to do what you love because of body issues, definitely worth while putting in some core work if you can without hurting yourself as core strength is beneficial for everything in your life!

I have had it switched on on my watch for over 5 years at this point. I record activities pretty much everyday which over the years has been a combination of both running and cycling. In that time I have probably has around 5 false positives, 3 of which I have notices and cancelled before it has sent messages to my family.

I have had a couple of actual crashes in that time and it picked both of them up fine and sent messages as it should do, they were both on the bike. It has never detected any falls I have had whilst running however.

My false positives have never been in the same place, so I keep it on as the couple of times I have had crashes it has worked as intended and although I was fine and able to walk away from them if I hadn't I believe it could be beneficial still.

I haven't listened to (or heard of) the guy but yeh seems pretty close to me. Whether that was intentional or not.

Dunno how you missed it, it swamped /all for the last two years whilst active.

It is more just the difference between UK English and US English, nothing wrong with using either of them this is just one of those things that I wasn't aware had a different spelling until today.

It is like tyres - UK or tires - US. Tires looks wrong to me because I grew up using tyres but they are both valid spellings of the word.

In UK English we spell it vice for a "mechanical object used to secure things". I had never seen it spelt "vise".

TIL that you could spell vice, vise as well!

It was the Garmin Vivoactive I think it was called. I hated it.

Agreed, I don't have a problem with it as it has been announced in that I have no desire for AI stuff and as long as it doesn't affect my current experience people can knock themselves out with paying for that stuff. Sadly however I don't believe for a minute it won't creep into the basic experience like it did for strava for instance and slowly start eroding my experience unless I start paying a subscription. That I think is unacceptable but also seems par for the course these days and it is disgusting.

What you've described doesn't sound too bad as long as you have buttons too. My hatred came from having one of their watches in the past where everything was controlled with the touchscreen and it was an absolute nightmare, particularly trying to end an activity after a long run when it is cold or raining or whatever and it just not responding was the most frustrating bullshit. I am a fan of buttons in general though and miss my physical keyboard on my phone etc.

As you said in you other comment OP this list of "what is wrong with Garmin" is basically a list of things that appeal to me and why I choose garmin over the other wank.

I don't want 5g LTE bollocks, I don't want all these "smartwatch" features or deeper integration with a phone. I'm super disappointed about their move towards subscription models.

I want a reliable watch that is good for tracking the sports I do, which it does. I like having buttons and not touchscreen wankery (I know some have touchscreens and I purposefully avoid those models).

Honestly this article is a load of shit, why are people so insistent on everything being identical, more diverse options in every space not just watches is a good thing in my opinion. Not everything has to conform and be a cookie cutter of each other.

Napster was there before Kazaa, it was just a string of services popping up after others got shut down. Good times!

Different things work for different people and I appreciate the input regardless just definitely isn't for me :D

You'd hate where I live then, surrounded by university students in a city where the bin lorry comes at fucking half 5 every morning. It fucking sucks and I miss the quietness of the countryside where I grew up!