i-watch2 change sport choices in workouts

my main sports during the winter season (workouts) are cross country skiing and Ski touring. In order to record these on the apple watch I am using outdoor run for cross country skiing and outdoor walk for the ski touring.

with these choices I achieve a reasonably accurate map display. It would however be more elegant if I could rename the sports myself rather then misusing another sport. Is this not possible or have I just missed the place to configure my sports?

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Posted on Jan 6, 2017 1:46 PM

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Jan 8, 2017 1:55 AM in response to applesmartz

Thanks, did not know that this option existed. It is good but not really good enough! Longer term I would expect apple to modify the software in such a way that every user can configure his sports list and delete the sports he never does.

After all the watch is a personal item- we can configure our prefered display but... even more so .. we should be able to personalise our prefered sports.

In practice I have found, that I ofter forget to start the activity at start (after all I first have to get the skis, the boots, the gloves and the clothing etc etc into position) I then have to stop again, take gloves off push clothing off watch and then in bright sunlight in snow fiddle with ODD sport selections. WOULD BE MUCH BETTER if I only had my own sports available. I have found myself pushing the wrong sport and could not get back into the correct sport I wanted. Frustratingly I normally just leave it in the wrong sport which I cant overrun afterwards. So I still see room for improvement for your programmers! Otherwise love the watch and all its many features!

Thanks.

Jan 9, 2017 10:49 PM in response to Snowracer1

Thanks, I will ask Siri next time!

I did another Skitour (climbing mountains with ski's with skins on) yesterday and did use your previous advise and used the activity "other". When renaming it later on, I found, that there was nothing remotely similar in the choices available but above all "other" must imply some sort of indoor sport since the GPS sensor was not activated and I had no record afterwards where I had been!

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