Neil Hughes
Apple has issued a special challenge to Apple Watch wearers, offering a Thanksgiving-themed Activity achievement to those who walk, run or wheelchair a workout distance of at least 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles.
The Activity Challenge was issued to Apple Watch wearers early Monday, displaying the following message:
"Activity Challenge: This Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, earn a special achievement by completing a walk, run or wheelchair workout of at least 5K (3.1 mi)."
Completing the Thanksgiving task will give users a unique medal in their list of achievements in the Activity app. The challenge is not limited to Apple's Workout app for Apple Watch, as Apple noted that any app that records workouts into the iPhone Health app will qualify.
Those who complete the challenge will also earn a special Messages app sticker, supporting the sticker functionality introduced earlier this year in iOS 10.
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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.
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.