So a quick update on the Wahoo after a couple of weeks using it. Let’s start with the good…
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• It looks great. Overall quality is good with gorilla glass and a ceramic bezel
• Nice comfortable strap and the watch fits snugly with the OHR sensor being almost flush to the watch
• Really light at 53g and you don’t even feel it when it’s on
• It has a lock button which I actually used - really useful
• Simple to use and very fast, no lag between screens or between the watch and the app
• UI/Elemnt app is great (I was using it on ios). Easy to use and navigate with everything you need and nothing you don’t. Syncs between the watch and app are immediate
• Navigation through the screens and data fields is excellent
• Bright and easy to read display, dare I say it better than my S9B
The not so good…
• Average pace is always off. Once GPS is locked in and you start it takes 1-2mins for the average pace to normalise which seems to throw everything off from the start
• Current pace is slow to respond to any increase/decrease in pace. Also fluctuates wildly on occasion which again throws off your average pace
• Elevation stops and starts, sometimes missing whole blocks of a climb before it kicks back in. Same for the Grade which would be awesome if it worked, but for whatever reason both are pretty hopeless 👎
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Here’s what the watch recorded
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This is what it should have been after Strava corrected it - that’s a 20% error over a pretty short distance. Not great at all 🙄
So my trusty S9B is once again back on the wrist. If Wahoo can iron out those issues by means of an update then in essence they have a great product. But until they do that the distance, time and elevation problems are not something I’m willing to put up with