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Mountain Biking With Apple Watch

Does anyone have a solution for tracking a mountain bike (off road) ride on Apple Watch and getting an accurate calorie count? I’ve read up in old threads and there wasn’t a real solution. It’s clearly calibrated for road cycling as it puts a priority on speed over heart rate. Mountain biking is slower but I have a higher heart rate. I’ve used indoor cycling and gotten a much higher calorie count but would like to use the gps feature.

Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 5

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 6:33 PM

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Jun 14, 2020 1:24 AM in response to amiramon00

Try an outdoor run,this uses GPS.

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