Apple issues 5K Thanksgiving day activity challenge to Apple Watch wearers

I give Apple credit for trying.   But frankly, I consider these "medals" kind of silly.  

Apple does not seem to understand serious athletes & fitness enthusiasts.   They need to up their game...

Instead of a silly medal, I would prefer to go to the Health App or Activity App and find a meaningful summary of my exercise & activity that helps me to see and understand how I've been doing over the past week, month, quarter and year and to help me tune my exercise and activity in order to promote my health.   Right now those offerings are second rate -- particularly the health app. 

GeorgeBMac said:

I give Apple credit for trying.   But frankly, I consider these "medals" kind of silly.  

Apple does not seem to understand serious athletes & fitness enthusiasts.   They need to up their game...

Instead of a silly medal, I would prefer to go to the Health App or Activity App and find a meaningful summary of my exercise & activity that helps me to see and understand how I've been doing over the past week, month, quarter and year and to help me tune my exercise and activity in order to promote my health.   Right now those offerings are second rate -- particularly the health app. 

Gosh who pissed in your cornflakes this morning? 

GeorgeBMac said:

I give Apple credit for trying.   But frankly, I consider these "medals" kind of silly.  

Apple does not seem to understand serious athletes & fitness enthusiasts.   They need to up their game...

Instead of a silly medal, I would prefer to go to the Health App or Activity App and find a meaningful summary of my exercise & activity that helps me to see and understand how I've been doing over the past week, month, quarter and year and to help me tune my exercise and activity in order to promote my health.   Right now those offerings are second rate -- particularly the health app. 

Serious-ish athlete here (marathons, half-marathons) who, while agreeing that the Watch / Health apps could use more granularity, flexibility and pertinent info, totally digs the beautifully designed medals. I recently walked a few extra km after an 18km run just to earn the 3X Move Goal medal. Silly.

GeorgeBMac said:

I give Apple credit for trying.   But frankly, I consider these "medals" kind of silly.  

Apple does not seem to understand serious athletes & fitness enthusiasts.   They need to up their game...

Instead of a silly medal, I would prefer to go to the Health App or Activity App and find a meaningful summary of my exercise & activity that helps me to see and understand how I've been doing over the past week, month, quarter and year and to help me tune my exercise and activity in order to promote my health.   Right now those offerings are second rate -- particularly the health app. 

Consider that perhaps this isn't aimed at serious athletes and fitness enthusiasts but rather at the vast majority of Americans that will be scarfing down a thousand or two extra calories on that day.  I don't know if many people care about getting messages app stickers, but not a bad idea to go for a walk after Thanksgiving dinner.

This is a cool idea, and I think they should do more of this. My only tiny tiny gripe with this is that a lot of people will already be planning a turkey run, so us sloths get to watch as the motivated runnerati get a medal for free. (please read a little humor on that and don't respond with hate) How about a medal for something a little more our speed like a 1k walk, lol.