I want to use my Apple Watch to track my runs and races of longer time and distance. I don’t know if the battery will last…
I do like wearing my watch on a day by day basis. It works for unlocking my Mac, quick checking message’s, telling Siri what to do, etc. I want to be a one watch guy, so even though I tease myself with Instagram streams of mechanical watches, I’m not sure if I would ever wear a mechanical for work and change to a workout watch for working out… I really do want one watch to rule them all.
The problem is that the battery doesn’t last long enough in a workout. 4-5 hours tops. I’ve already killed the battery this year at Spartan World Championships at Tahoe. It was a long day…
The best advice I can find online about making the Apple Watch battery last longer in a workout is to use a HR chest strap. Apparently the HR feature is the battery killer, even more than the GPS running.
I tried saving the battery at the Spartan SoCal #2 Best by wearing a HR chest strap, but the strap got in the way of the obstacles and kept getting undone. So, for OCR at least, that didn’t work.
I have a 50k and a Spartan Ultra Beast coming up next year. I’ve got time to figure this out, but there may not be a solution. Other than buying a Garmin and putting up with their un-readable screens….
Matt Gorski 