Fit Train Questions
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:46 pm
Started experimenting with this mode for ad hoc interval sessions. Couple things:
- if I enter the FT while the bike is moving it automatically goes to the FT mode (TT or user) that it was in last and I don't have the option of selecting a different mode, unless I stop the bike and let the speed readout go to 0. Then I can enter FT and make a mode selection. Is this normal behavior?
- While it's nice sometimes to have the alternating time/HR in the bottom window, sometimes it's not. Today I decided on the fly to do some 10 second sprints. While the 5 second "time" and 3 second "HR" cycle seem reasonable in some cases, in a 10 second all out sprint when I glance down and see HR not time when I think the 10 seconds are about up its a problem. Is there any way to customize that bottom screen to show time only?
- I know an alternative to this is using "laps", but the problem there is that at the end of a rest lap after hitting the left button for a new lap I get a recap screen for about 5 seconds, so I'm totally blind as to what my power is at the start of the new lap/interval. Is there some way I can shorten or eliminate the recap display in lap mode?
One more request: I have an older model Newton where hitting the center button along with the right, left and bottom button causes a data reset, in theory. In practice it seems to be the center button and any other single button, or at most two. At the end of a hard interval it's really difficult to be so precise as to only touch the center button. Is there anyway a future firmware change could modify the data reset routine for the older Newtons to be like the newer ones, i.e., long hold of center button?
Thanks,
- if I enter the FT while the bike is moving it automatically goes to the FT mode (TT or user) that it was in last and I don't have the option of selecting a different mode, unless I stop the bike and let the speed readout go to 0. Then I can enter FT and make a mode selection. Is this normal behavior?
- While it's nice sometimes to have the alternating time/HR in the bottom window, sometimes it's not. Today I decided on the fly to do some 10 second sprints. While the 5 second "time" and 3 second "HR" cycle seem reasonable in some cases, in a 10 second all out sprint when I glance down and see HR not time when I think the 10 seconds are about up its a problem. Is there any way to customize that bottom screen to show time only?
- I know an alternative to this is using "laps", but the problem there is that at the end of a rest lap after hitting the left button for a new lap I get a recap screen for about 5 seconds, so I'm totally blind as to what my power is at the start of the new lap/interval. Is there some way I can shorten or eliminate the recap display in lap mode?
One more request: I have an older model Newton where hitting the center button along with the right, left and bottom button causes a data reset, in theory. In practice it seems to be the center button and any other single button, or at most two. At the end of a hard interval it's really difficult to be so precise as to only touch the center button. Is there anyway a future firmware change could modify the data reset routine for the older Newtons to be like the newer ones, i.e., long hold of center button?
Thanks,