Well, I'm that weirdo too. All the apps and syncing seems like a lot of extra work to me when I have my own little system worked out. I wear a chest strap for cardio but that is just so that the onboard information from the device I get is accurate. I scribble down my weights and only record the top weight I hit on each apparatus, I know that I do four sets of ten and the last set is my high number. I have a super simple little spreadsheet recording system and as long as that one number keeps going up over time I'm happy. It's too easy for me to get wound up in minutia, so that way I'm still tracking (which makes all the difference) but I'm only tracking results for the most part and not giving up a whole lot of data to some company that might decide someday to sell it to insurance companies, if they aren't already.
Today is a bittersweet one for me. I miss the beach and all my peeps and workout buddies from there something fierce. This morning several of them were out on the beach at the same time and apparently got talking about me. They gathered around one of their phones and called me for a Happy New Year catch up. Damn near made me cry. It was so good to hear from my friends and hear the wind and the birds in the background, they all told me about the changes in the beach (it's always changing and I was sort of the go-to for biology updates)and it was almost as good as being there. A couple of the park rangers joined in too. I got a good 90 minute fix and I'm calling that my workout today.(Emotionally anyway)
Actually, I'm pulling on my woolies right now and heading out into 18 degree weather with little snow flurries and will do about three miles along the river. It is amazingly beautiful in the snow and I just have to get used to a new "beach". It's good and I'll have a go at the gym tomorrow with who knows how many people. I'm a week away from some hip stuff medically speaking, so I'll go light, but it looks like I'm not broken so no excuse.