Garmin 220 Review

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10 years ago 12/20/2013 4:13pm EST

I loved my Garmin 210.

The 220 is significantly better:

1. Pace Alert (Hooray!) Prolly the main reason I bought it.

2. Very Intuitive Workout Creator on GarminConnect, which sends the workout to the unit (You can now do a ladder, for instance, instead of strictly static intervals like 12x400)

3. Easier interface

4. GPS is MUCH quicker to find satellites (Like maybe 5 seconds instead of 45:)

5. Cadence accelerometer in unit (no need for footpod)

6. Lighter (prolly not a huge deal, but worth mentioning...I guess :-))

7. Auto Pause when stopped

If anyone has any questions, I will do my best to answer them!

-thejeff

10 years ago 12/20/2013 4:35pm EST

re: thejeff

How accurate do you find the cadence accelerometer function to be?

10 years ago 12/20/2013 4:48pm EST

re: thejeff

How accurate is it on the track? My 205 clearly doesn't "measure" curves well.

10 years ago 12/20/2013 5:20pm EST

re: Some Dudebro

Cadence was spot on thru my 13 miler this morning.

Haven't tried it on a track, yet; not sure when I will be able to. I HEAR it is more accurate that previous models, but remember that GPS measures in straight lines, so it will NEVER be totally accurate... Will update if I can get a mile in on MA's track without getting the popo called on me :-)

8 years ago 11/27/2015 6:45am EST

re: thejeff

It measures the track shorter running clockwise than it does running counter. I wear the watch on my left wrist. So, it is sensitive enough to notice the difference btwn the 2ish feet btwn my wrists over a quarter mile loop. Impressive :-)

8 years ago 11/27/2015 7:18am EST

re: thejeff

Love the design and simplicity of the watch but I have found mine to be quite inaccurate on track and on lopped courses.

It also cuts out at the first sign of trees overhead and takes a long time to find satellites (sometimes it is really quick but sometimes takes an age).

Maybe I just need to stop having such high expectations of GPS but overall I am a little disappointed with the GPS functionality.

One other point that annoys me is the difficulty of adjusting or viewing workouts on the fly. When you set up a custom workout e.g. 5x1k, it does not tell you splits at the end of each K and the only way to view splits or change workout is to start a completely new one. Minor point but does annoy me.

Aside from that it looks great, is overall quite nice and simple to use and has a good display. Overall it feels a little cheap/plasticky but it it incredibly light and I suppose it is a function of that (I could not get over how light it was). Waterproofing is also a nice feature.

Overall happy with my purchase but GPS lets it down for me.

8 years ago 11/28/2015 3:38pm EST

re: reviwoor

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