What is out there, even not most recent model?
Looking for something with hard-to-miss buttons when at running at speed, with GPS (I know is track but might use it on other surfaces as well...) and that can download to various third party for analysis, so the usual features. But the buttons are key
In my experience Polar have buttons too small, Suunto too hard... thinking of a Garmin...
Any input welcome
Every GPS can download to third parties.
If you want easy-to-hit buttons, check out the Garmin 920XT. It's pretty cheap now that it's been out a few years, and it has big, front-facing start/stop and lap buttons.
I have a Garmin 225 and it would suit your needs. Not the absolute bottom of the barrel Garmin, more of their midlevel watch ($200-$250 price point when I bought it a couple of years ago).
The start/stop button is at about 1:00-2:00 spot on the watch, while the lap button is at the 4:00/5:00 spot, so there is plenty of distance between them and they are easy and intuitive to deal with after just a few sessions.
The advantage of some of the mid-range watches over some of the entry level watches is that you can switch between two different screens with different fields of data. So unlike some watches that I used in the past, I can toggle between a screen that shows total time and distance (which I like to use on easy runs and tempo efforts since I am seeking to run for a specific period of time, but is not so useful for me during track sessions because it makes figuring out my interval times a problem) to a screen that shows lap time and distance with just the click of one button.
800 dude wrote:
Every GPS can download to third parties.
If you want easy-to-hit buttons, check out the Garmin 920XT. It's pretty cheap now that it's been out a few years, and it has big, front-facing start/stop and lap buttons.
Yeah i though of that one, especially now there is this noise a replacement model is on the way. If you have it, how big it really is? It seem quite "large" although looking at the weight you wouldnt tell.
Many thanks
Smoove wrote:
I have a Garmin 225 and it would suit your needs. Not the absolute bottom of the barrel Garmin, more of their midlevel watch ($200-$250 price point when I bought it a couple of years ago).
The start/stop button is at about 1:00-2:00 spot on the watch, while the lap button is at the 4:00/5:00 spot, so there is plenty of distance between them and they are easy and intuitive to deal with after just a few sessions.
The advantage of some of the mid-range watches over some of the entry level watches is that you can switch between two different screens with different fields of data. So unlike some watches that I used in the past, I can toggle between a screen that shows total time and distance (which I like to use on easy runs and tempo efforts since I am seeking to run for a specific period of time, but is not so useful for me during track sessions because it makes figuring out my interval times a problem) to a screen that shows lap time and distance with just the click of one button.
Thank you. I was thinking at its offshoot the 230, which seems priced ok for a mid range. The other is 235 with optical HR but i dont think we are there yet.
Screw the GPS...get an old school Timex Ironman. Big old button on the front face.
Although I might use the data if it were presented to me for free, I am not a "train by heart rate" guy, so I wouldn't pay for that feature and haven't looked into the accuracy extensively; but I think that I have read some comments on these boards that the optical heart rate monitors are not as accurate as most competitive runners would want. I just wouldn't pay for that feature until the tech is pretty much airtight.,
Nike+ watch, you just slap the watch face to trigger a lap split. Very difficult to miss
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