Distance and Speed Are Not Accurate

Okay, so here’s the deal: It’s small. I’m a small person, so this is fine for me, but if you’re an actual adult-sized adult, you’ll probably find this too short and too narrow. It might feel like it’s not sturdy enough. I think it’s fine, but again, I’m pretty small. Also, it SAYS it measures distance in metric — but it doesn’t. I have a year’s worth of recorded walks and runs both indoors on a high end gym treadmill and outdoors on various surfaces. My slowest walk in a year of daily walks is 3 mph - meaning I walk a mile in 20 minutes. This says I walked 1 km in 20 minutes, or just over a half mile. No way. The speed works similarly. The 5 kph setting is way too fast to be only about 3 mph, and when I tested it, I took far more steps than I do in a typical mile. Bottom line: This says it measures in metric, but my bets are it doesn’t. Good for the price. I only use it when I can’t get outside or to a gym, and it works fine for that.

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