Wahoo Fitness

I’ve used other gps in other sports they did ok. Wahoo has stepped up and modernize the game without making it look and feel like a game. Hats off for that. The only irregularities I see with GPS is one I’ve seen even in the service and basecamp units. Civilian GPS units are not as precise as thousand dollar units. Basically if you have a 25 foot proximity value in your GPS reading you can be anywhere within the proximity. Another important bite is, GPS needs three satellites to start calculating where you’re at at any given moment. When one of those satellites change the information changes just enough that you may think your gps device is acting up or broken. ITS NOT IT’S THE GPS system and fact “it’s Way better than it was 10 years ago” I feel for my investment in Wahoo Devices to take cycling with me that they are the best. The service and support that’s been is top notch. Thanks Wahoo

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Started off bad as I accidentally clicked on the screen and set a lap time of 1 second, don’t know how but after 187 laps I stopped to figure it out. Those popups are a treat. Went to the work out settings and changed the metric to 1 mile. Started the app again and wouldn’t you know it still had laps set to 1 second. I even reset the cycling work out to defaults. Restarted the workout and was still receiving 1 second popups. Only fix was to turn-off the auto lap indicator. So then I go back after ending and restarting the workout but it defaulted to running and I kept getting pace vs speed in my dashboard. Stopped the work out and restarted and it was set to cycling. It still showed pace. Stopped and started again and selected running and re-selected cycling and finally speed showed rather than pace. I used to use map my run but apparently they do not support wahoo sensors since underarmour took over. Can’t find any documentation on that but assume they wanted money or wahoo figured their app would be better. I liked my wahoo sensors better working out with map my run. I will try it some more but this app needs some serious work. Reset the lap after each work out and don’t leave it perpetually in memory. And fix the issue with selecting the workout making sure the proper metrics and displayed.

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This used to be fantastic. However, in recent updates Wahoo began attempting to track YOUR whereabouts when the app is not on by requesting ACCESS YOUR LOCATION ALWAYS in location services. That means the app is tracking when you’re not using the app. I opt to allow Wahoo to track my location ONLY WHEN USING THE APP (as the app needs your location to track runs and so on). Since selecting this option in location services, I get a horrible and frustrating reminder EVERY TIME I use the app, stating, “I am not using the proper location services.” There is no reason why any app should be able to track your location when you’re not using the app. Wahoo, I’m sure, has some BS and canned response in why it needs to track your location when the app is NOT BEING USED. In light of Facebook and other apps gathering your information and selling it to third parties, I will never allow an app to track my location when I’m not using it. Wahoo who should be ashamed of itself for requesting your LOCATION ALWAYS. Uber, if you recall, went through a similar situation. In which users screamed so much that it removed the request to have location services on at all times. This is disgraceful and makes me think that Wahoo maybe selling our information to third parties.

This is a really good app for indoor use. There are a couple of tweaks to the UI that would definitely make it significantly easier to use by making it easier to change the resistance as you’re biking and it would be nice to have the heart rate monitor on each page since training to heart rate is very effective. As for outdoors the GPS refresh rate is much too slow. For example you could be going down a hill at 30 miles an hour you get to the bottom you’re doing like 5 miles an hour and it takes over a minute to get to 5mph. You will also notice it when you were on a flat and simply accelerate it takes a while before it catches up to what your real miles per hour are. By the way it does the same thing for your cadence only the update is a little bit faster. This has caused me to use MapMyRide when I’m outdoors. It sure would be nice if the wahoo app would work year-round so I have one place to log all my miles The really good news is that the app has never crashed on me and always works!

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It used to be a great app, but over the past few months it’s gotten worse and worse. My data doesn’t sync with major apps like it used to for years (Mapmyrun, Nike, Strava, etc,). I’ve done everything they suggest and it still doesn't work. I even deleted the app and reinstalled it hoping that would work but it still didn’t work, and I lost my past 3 years of workout data. Luckily, the data synced until just the past few months so I have it, but it’s only on the other apps, not Wahoo. Also, the data it shows in the history is screwed up. The preview screen is correct, but when I click on it, the time data is really screwed up. For example, I ran on the treadmill for 1 hour and 9 minutes. It shows that correct time in the history screen, but when I click on it, the “active time” shows my lap 3 time as 21 hours, 55 minutes, and 37 seconds, and my paused time as over 204 hours. This doesn’t give me the confidence to continue using it. This was my favorite workout app and worked great with all my gear, but with no syncing and major data issues, I’m not going to be using anymore. I’ve done all their tips and still nothing. Too bad.