System; Workouts; Outdoor Workout Modes - Timex Metropolitan R User Manual

System

This item displays the following information regarding your watch and provides options to restart, power-
off or factory reset your watch.
About – Information about watch software
Regulation – Regulatory information
Reboot – Restart watch
Shutdown – Power off watch
Factory Reset – Clear all settings and reset watch (Note that after performing this function you will have to
pair your watch with the app again).

Workouts

Your TIMEX® Metropolitan R supports 6 workout modes (Outdoor running, Outdoor Walking/Hiking,
Outdoor Cycling, Treadmill, Indoor Cycling and Freestyle (Other sports).
The outdoor workout modes use GPS for tracking distance and generating the plot of the workout course.
Treadmill uses the watch's accelerometer to track your steps and calculate your distance (which can be
calibrated at the end of each treadmill workout to improve accuracy).
Indoor cycling and Freestyle/Other Sports only track time and heart rate.

Outdoor Workout modes

The three outdoor workout modes use the watch's GPS. To make sure that your entire workout is properly
recorded you must wait for the GPS to obtain your initial position before starting the workout. When you
select one of the outdoor workout modes the GO button will be grey until the GPS is ready. Once it is ready
the GO button will turn orange and the GPS animation will change from incrementing orange bars to
stationary green bars. At that point you are ready to start your workout by tapping the orange GO button.
Note that for the first use of the GPS it may take two minutes or more for the GPS to compute your initial
location. After that it should be considerably quicker as long as you are starting in a place which has an
unobstructed view of the sky. If you are in an area with tall buildings around you or tree cover, it will take
longer for the GPS to decode the data from the satellites to compute your initial location.
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