I just got this today, its my first garmin watch. I immediately took it for a walk and saw that there was no "walk" option, so I logged it as a run and figured I could go in and add the walk option later. But I don't see a walk option, so I listed it as "other." On garmin connect there is a walk activity, and it seems like there should be a walk activity on the watch too. Am I missing something?
Yes, this is an open discussion forum but you treat it as a debate club and your debate style is abrasive and irritating.
A discussion can involve questioning someone's point of view but if you do it in a coarse or uncivil manner then you kill the discussion. Maybe you see that as a way to "win" the debate but all you've really done is lost the ability to have people engage with you.
Sorry to everybody else for dragging this off-topic. I'll shut up now.
There is also Motorcycling and Snowshoeing in the selectable activity types in Garmin Connect. By that logic, do you have the same expectation that such profiles would be available on a running/triathlon/multi-sport watch (or more specifically just the FR735XT)?
Thanks for that. I did not mean specifically that because there is a walk option on GC that it should be on the watch as well. That is why I did not state "there is a walk profile on garmin connect, so therefore it should be on the watch as well, along with every other possible option on garmin connect." I should have been more clear, I see this has garnered a lot of discussion.
It is probably obvious, since this is my first garmin watch, that I am new to the whole thing. I'm still figuring out garmin connect. One of the first options I saw when trying to log my walk on there was that I could change it to a walk fairly easily, and since this seems like a pretty logical, common form of exercise (at least to me), it just seemed a little odd that it wasn't available outright on the watch's activity profiles. I did not see the options for motorcycle or snowshoeing, because I did not look any further once I saw "walk," but I don't doubt they are there.
I have spent far too long addressing this now, thank you to everyone else's helpful suggestions, I will look into them.
One of the first options I saw when trying to log my walk on there was that I could change it to a walk fairly easily, and since this seems like a pretty logical, common form of exercise (at least to me), it just seemed a little odd that it wasn't available outright on the watch's activity profiles. I did not see the options for motorcycle or snowshoeing, because I did not look any further once I saw "walk," but I don't doubt they are there.
Thank you very much for your reply. I hope you didn't find my question antagonistic, as several others here (to whom I did not address the question) obviously found it to be.
I just got this today, its my first garmin watch. I immediately took it for a walk and saw that there was no "walk" option, so I logged it as a run and figured I could go in and add the walk option later. But I don't see a walk option, so I listed it as "other." On garmin connect there is a walk activity, and it seems like there should be a walk activity on the watch too. Am I missing something?
Hopefully the Walk profile will be added to the 735XT in a fw update.
The exact same thing happened when the Fenix3 was first released in April 2015, no walk profile, so I recorded them as a Hike.
About 2 months after release a Walk profile was added via fw update.
Thank you very much for your reply. I hope you didn't find my question antagonistic, as several others here (to whom I did not address the question) obviously found it to be.
No............as your Forum name suggests you are just a smug dill.. ;)
