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The one major downside of a screenless fitness tracker is that you don’t get live feedback during your workout. Oura has set out to change this, with its new Live Workout Tracking feature. Until now, the Oura ring has purely been a retrospective tracker, allowing you to see your stats once you’ve finished a run or bike ride, but now, the ring allows you to see real-life stats on your outdoor activities.To find out more, I used my Oura Ring 5 and Garmin Forerunner 170 on an outdoor run around sunny Hyde Park in London. Read on to find out more about Oura’s latest feature.You’ll need your phone with you The Oura Ring doesn’t have built-in GPS, so it uses your phone’s location for the Live Workout Tracking. This means you’ll need to carry your phone with you on the run, but if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to see the live information from your Oura ring anyway!When using Live Workout Tracking, the Oura app uses your phone’s internal GPS to track your route, altitude, and velocity. If you’re wearing another device that’ll track your heart rate, such as one of the best Garmin watches, or the Apple AirPods Pro 3, you can also see live heart rate stats. These will sit on a widget on your lock screen, so you can look at your phone at any point to see your live data.You won’t get your live heart rate without a connected device
