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Vous êtes sportif, utilisateur d'outils de suivi des performances ? Ces outils sont presque toujours non-libres et payants, voraces de vos données personnelles qui sont hébergées sur des serveurs distants proposés par Garmin, Suunto, Polar ou Timex, etc…

« Arrêtez de payer pour vos stats : cette appli #OpenSource surpasse les géants du sport » :
https://goodtech.info/sportstracker-application-open-source-alternative-strava-garmin/

#SportsTracker est libre et multiplateformes (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Sources et téléchargement : https://github.com/ssaring/sportstracker/releases

richard Oct 6

Sports Tracker is Waking Up

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In the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro and then the Peak 5.

At the same time as I was jumping from one watch to another Sports Tracker was growing, and then Suunto bought it, and it became Movescount and this app was truly fantastic. I really loved the web app. It then became the Suunto App. Sports Tracker and the Suunto App are iterations of the same app. The Sports tracker app plays nicely with the Apple Watch, among other apps, whereas the Suunto app plays nicely with Suunto and Xiaomi devices.

I felt, for a long time, that Suunto wasn't taking advantage of how great the Movescount app was but in recent weeks I have noticed more social media posts for the Sports tracker app.

This morning, or last night I noticed the emergence of the "My Badges" tab. It has running, hiking, cycling, weight lifting, paddle sports, diving, snow adventure, stamina building and power striker.

It also rewards distance achievements and adventure milestones. The milestones seem to be forward looking. If they were retroactive then I would already have all of these badges, with ease, after three decades of using Sports Tracker, Movescount and the Suunto app.

On the Suunto app I have 486 activities logged, in part because I slid to Garmin to track certain sports and that's where the badges are present. On the Sports tracker app I have 4125 activities tracked, with 33,000 kilometres travelled over 2805 days and four thousand eight hundred and twelve hours of tracked activities.

On Strava I only have three thousand nine hundred plus activities. This is after years, and years of tracking sports.

And Finally

I would welcome a European company becoming more dominant in this space once again. It would be nice not to have to rely on Strava, Garmin and other apps. I was sad to see Movescount decline, and for years I felt that Sports Tracker and the Suunto apps would be abandonned. If they gain momentum I will be happy.

#Apple #Garmin #movescount #sportsTracker #strava #suunto

richard Sep 29

A Cycling Network Operating Centre or NOC

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Today I looked at the Sports Tracker app and I noticed that all of my activities started from home, whether cycling, hiking, or walking. That's because I spent this month cycling and walking from home. I didn't use the car, or trains to get around.

I was thinking of this luxury when I was walking to the food shops this morning. Usually I would go by car, not because I am too lazy to walk four kilometres to the shops and back, but because recently the roads have been congested. People commuting to work all drive at the same time, so the entire road gets clogged up. That's why I walked.

During the pandemic it was nice, because people had lost the freedom, and habit, of driving for everything, so roads were quiet, both in terms of traffic, but also in terms of noise pollution. It's a shame that we didn't preserve the habit of walking, cycling and hiking from home, rather than getting into the car to do activities.

This morning, when I looked at Sports Tracker, and my activities pattern I was happy with two things. The first is with the realisation that all of my activities started from home, but also that I had such a pattern, emanating from home, over the Jura, towards Morges and the region above, Les Rousses and more. If I had cycled with Geneva groups then the pattern would cover even more area.

And Finally

I enjoyed walking from home and hiking every day, for years, and now, this summer, I really enjoyed going for long rides from home, rather than taking the car, or catching a train. I love the convenience of being self-propelled.

#carFree #cycling #driving #sportsTracker #walking

Coralie Mercier Sep 28

Oh wow, #SportsTracker ( #Salomon, #Suunto) redesigned their sports tracking app in version 7.1.0 and it’s a lot clearer.

The new daily health module and the newly available “commute” graphs in the widgets are a great addition 👍

Have you got favorite feature(s)?

Mine are the ability to find previous activities, see where in the world I’ve exercised (another reminder of how lucky I am), see my own heat map.
Seeing where I am compared to where I was once saved me a few times!