I have recently taken up rucking (i.e. walking with a heavy backpack for exercise) and am keen to track this activity separately from walking. However, since the movements will look the same to Arc, I assume I will need to manually mark each walk as either walking or rucking in the future and may even need to re-categorise every walk (more than 2500 km!) already logged in Arc. Will this be the case? Are there any easy solutions for this? If it’s too tricky, I won’t do it, but am just seeing what might be possible.
If you ruck the same routes you also walk, that will lead to some confusion for the activity classifier. But even so, there should be enough subtle differences that it can learn to distinguish them.
I recommend using “hiking” for your rucking btw!
For past walking items, when you navigate back to them in timeline view, there is some chance that the classifier will reconsider its past classification. Though if you’re using the new(ish) feature that makes it easy to confirm all items, even ones that don’t strictly need confirmation, those walking assignments will be locked in and won’t be changed by Arc.
I’m actually somewhat hopeful that Arc will learn to distinguish the two for you personally. Although they will look very similar in the data, there’s still a good chance there’ll be enough subtle differences that the classifier will figure it out.
For me, with walking and hiking, I find that the classifier copes with those well, with the exception of new areas. If I’m hiking somewhere new it’ll choose “walking”, because it’s seen far more walking than hiking, so it assumes that’s the more likely choice. But once I mark some of those hiking items as hiking, and the classifier’s models update overnight, the next day it’ll realise that in that area I’m probably more likely to be hiking, and it starts to get it right for all of them from then on.
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