GPS watches only for soft, insecure runners??

When I was cycling I learned the value of quantitative information in real time. Not sure how you see any downside to it but to each his own. I'm sure you talk of soft, insecure runners is projection.

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

Cool

I avoid posting gps and heart rate data to garmin and strava precisely because I am soft and insecure and don't want people to know how weak and slow I really am.

i am hearing from an indistry source that the next generation of Garmin watches are able to determine and record how many erections you have per day.

Guess we will find out who the soft runners are soon enough.

The Obvious Answer wrote:

i am hearing from an indistry source that the next generation of Garmin watches are able to determine and record how many erections you have per day.

Guess we will find out who the soft runners are soon enough.

Shit, there goes my market. Too much time in R&D gettin' it up while Garmin and BIG GPS eat my cake.

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

Don't know about you but since I got my GPS I have gotten way quicker and I'm getting older.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

Don't know about you but since I got my GPS I have gotten way quicker and I'm getting older.

Your watch is broken.

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

I agree with you. GPS watches are trash.

GPS guy wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Don't know about you but since I got my GPS I have gotten way quicker and I'm getting older.

Your watch is broken.

No you're a moron.

Thanks. You've finally opened all our eyes. Let's just throw them out. I can't believe it's taken 20 years for you to figure it out and elucidate us idiots.

Bless you man! Keep on trucking! But stop coaching. Stick to trucking only. Actually no, they probably use GPS in trucking. You're pretty screwed.

everything in the running business is for insecure runners, from training advice to watches to other bullshît

ima mofckin animal and i know best what kind of workout has the best impact on my body. all i see is cucks to lazy to workout and wasting their time on dreaming to be something while buying bullshît

you are such a tool.my gps watch is almost exactly right based on races - 5k to marathon. you obviously live in a small, sheltered place if you are just getting to this comment. Everyone has had one for 5-6 years where i live and the Strava crew is great. helps you train harder, structure better workouts, and be more competitive. plus, more friendsget with the program, little guy!

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

Why have to guess? I have a GPS watch that beeps every mile and displays your split. Maybe I want to run a different route than the usual ones, it takes the pressure of calculating distance. Maybe I'm in an unfamiliar area and don't want to have to worry about calculating distance. Maybe it's hot out and I want to know how fast I'm running so I don't run too fast. Maybe I'm doing an XC race where everyone goes out super fast and I want to make sure I don't kill myself in the first mile. Maybe I'm doing a tempo run and don't want to run too fast. Maybe I'm doing a 16+ mile long run out and back on a trail and need to know when to turn around.

There are many reasons for a gps watch, you don't have to stare at it the entire run, it makes training easier and can help you be more efficient. If you are a serious runner I don't see why you wouldn't have one.

Does Bekele and Kipchoge run with a GPS watches?

Yeah, this ship has sailed. People don't even talk about "gps watches" much anymore. They just call them running watches. Everyone acknowledges you should have at least a digital watch, so why wouldn't you want your watch to also have some pretty powerful tracking tools, especially when they cost under $100.

FWIW, I don't even have a pace field visible on my watch. I use it for total distance and for recording purposes. I love that every step I've run is automatically recorded in my log. Even the most obsessive old school runners could only dream about having that kind of data.

*In a mocking, whining voice

"Why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your liiiiiiiife??"

GPS watches serve their purpose to those that utilize them properly. If you just jog the same route everyday at a nonchalant pace, then there is no point to them since you already know the distance you are traveling and obviously speed is of no importance.

If you constantly travel and are unfamiliar with routes, need to monitor pace as to avoid going too quickly or rather to keep up a certain pace, and use it for tempo-esque runs and so forth, they can be necessary.

You can make the argument that African runners don't all use GPS watches, but many do during longer workouts. Keep in mind most know the routes they run very well and during recovery runs don't need them.

This is 100% troll. How do you people get suckered into it?

GPS Crotch wrote:

Seriously, why can't you just take a general guess based on time and get on with your life? If you are telling me your GPS watch is wrong half the time, then clearly your intuition is better than that piece of trash on your wrist.

yawn

Gps watches are great for OTHER people to wear. I like to run by effort and then map the run or find somebody else that did that race or workout and see how far it was. I have a low end gps but rarely wear it because I pay too much attention to what it is saying rather than how I am feeling. There isn't too many runs you can do that you can't map out before and already know the distance and elevation gain the run is going to be. You can even figure out splits at checkpoints and look at a regular casio to see how you are doing.

I just did a roughly 15 mile out and back on trail. I already knew when I got to a certain road crossing, it was time to turn around. Didn't need a gps on my wrist for that.

Even in road races, I would gps the course before the race noting checkpoints where each half mile approximately was. During the race, I would just check my casio and see how I was doing. Didn't have to worry about my gps quitting or not getting a signal. The more technology, the more chance something goes wrong with it.

While I like new technology, learning when to use it and when not to use it has worked best for me.