Coros Pace 2 reviews?

I use a remix 6x plus and i love the sapphire glass feature. I’m very clumsy. I had a guy from garmin argue with me that it is too heavy, a salesman from garmin telling me what’s best for me. Ive worn a watch everyday for 10 years, how can you tell me its too heavy? It’s my wrist. I love the garmin, i saw the coros gets great reviews but for me and my clumsy ass and working in construction i am sticking with the sapphire option. Just my thoughts. Sapphire is a game changer. if apple offered sapphire i might switch. I literally have a scratched bezel and not a mark on the screen

Disko Eric wrote:

Doesnt rizknows, fellnr, and dcrainmaker still do reviews?

Did fellrnr survive covid? His wiki and social media haven't been updated in a long while :(

As for Coros Pace 2, it's a great watch, I love it. I have nylon strap and it's very comfortable. It's really small and lightweight, even Garmin 235 feels clunky after a few days with Pace 2. It's nice to have barometric altimeter and full Stryd support on $200 watch. I also love how it has easy to access alarm, stopwatch and timer, use those all the time, as well as phone call notifications. Maybe that's because it's light and comfortable – Garmin probably had all of those as well but I only used it when running.

Now, battery life. Not that it's bad, it's ok. But it's nowhere near advertised '20 hours of GPS'. I run 9-10 hours a week, 12 at most when pumping mileage and I have to charge it maybe every 6 days or so. I charge it whenever it's below 20% as going under 10 prevents sync, so maybe full 100 to 0 could give me 12-14 hours, but no way it could last 20. When I contacted Coros, they started pulling excuses like paired accessories shortening battery life, as well as cold weather, backlight options, etc. What the? I mean Garmin used to work for about 8-10 hours without me thinking about accessories or backlight modes. So if you're making a big deal of your long-lasting battery, have it work advertised 20 hours without any special energy saving options, otherwise I feel cheated and insulted.

I was one of the first coros users in my country and I was thinking about becoming their social media ambassador but this battery conversation totally killed the spirit.

Does the Coros Pace 2 have a built in interval timer? Can you setup complex interval workouts? The 235 has one that can do basic stuff (20 x 1on/1off etc.) but to do a Mona fartlek or sets of varied reps you have to use the crappy Garmin software and sync the watch, which is what I want to avoid. I had a Timex Ironman 150 that could do those workouts 15 years ago. We have the technology!

LimpingMan1982 wrote:

Does the Coros Pace 2 have a built in interval timer? Can you setup complex interval workouts? The 235 has one that can do basic stuff (20 x 1on/1off etc.) but to do a Mona fartlek or sets of varied reps you have to use the crappy Garmin software and sync the watch, which is what I want to avoid. I had a Timex Ironman 150 that could do those workouts 15 years ago. We have the technology!

Writing the workout on Garmin connect is pretty simple and only takes a second to sync. I’m hoping the native Stryd support on the Coros will give it more accuracy and like the idea of track mode anyway. Hopefully the HR monitor will be worth keeping on too, which I can’t say for the 235 and if I can get away with keeping everything *on* and charging once a week I’ll be a happy camper. Right to I’ve got GPS and HR off on the 235 and am using it solely as an interface for Stryd for pace/distance.

And that gives me about 8hrs running. Otherwise I’d be charging every 2-3 days.

I’m very disappointed in the workouts building part. Garmin you could choose from run, recover, rest, warmup, cool down.

This thing you don’t get an option of recover so if you want to build say a workout of 10 x 400m with 200m recovery you can’t. You have to choose rest and use HR or Time. They should really add in the recover option on the training portion and be able to choose distance

Have it and love it. Best GPS watch I've tried and I have tried many. Use it everyday and charge it once a week. Despite its light weight, it is super durable. I have been known to destroy watches and my Pace 2 doesn't even have a scratch on it after almost a year.

I have a Coros Pace 2. Went to it from a basic Garmin. More workout modes (type of activity) which is nice. HR works great in workouts but is pretty unreliable if you wear it 24/7. It routinely tells me my HR is 90-100 when I'm sitting on the couch & it's 45. The monitor must more/less go to sleep when you're not in workout mode. The updates have been good. It gives you some of the Whoop metrics, like a recovery score. I think it's a solid option that won't break the bank. It's also super light.

In Coros's guide to track mode, for recovery you can select Time, Distance, or Open. What am I missing?

https://support.coros.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039841832-Track-Run

Blueballs&beard wrote:

Anyone using this watch? I’m updating my Garmin and would appreciate any feedback.

Polar Vantage 2

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-I could be wrong (small sample size), but it seems like it takes longer to get a signal than previous GPS watches I've owned.

My Pace 2 occasionally seems bipolar in that it usually quickly (10-30s) gets GPS signal, but on rare occasions it inexplicably takes very long (like up to several minutes) even in outdoor locations where it has previously quickly gotten signal.

My understanding is Garmin and Polar and others also run into GPS signal latching delays because their users seem to complain about it too. The Apple Watch (AW) on the other hand never has any GPS delay, and happily starts a workout with a 3-2-1 countdown as soon as you tap. Not sure how AW gets it to work instantaneously every single time. It’s just as quick even away from home or a phone, so it’s not relying on other devices. It doesn’t actually track GPS all the time because it doesn’t know your route unless you actually start a workout (and auto-workout detection shows your route starting from only after you affirmed its prompt to start a workout). I suspected it uses WiFi based geo-localization to reduce signal latching delay, but it still seems to latch immediately even when there’s no WiFi within range. In any case, AW’s battery life sucks compared to just about any running watch, so that’s your tradeoff.

Masters_Runner11 wrote:

I’m very disappointed in the workouts building part. Garmin you could choose from run, recover, rest, warmup, cool down.

This thing you don’t get an option of recover so if you want to build say a workout of 10 x 400m with 200m recovery you can’t. You have to choose rest and use HR or Time. They should really add in the recover option on the training portion and be able to choose distance

You set up a track workout through Track Run, Basic Interval, and set up the appropriate run distance, rest distance, and the number of repeats. Very easy.

i turned my wrist based HR monitor off. i only use a chest strap. I have never found a wrist based monitor that was accurate. When you use Garmin you can do an overlay of elevation and HR. When I do hill repeats with the chest strap, my HR looks like an elevation plot. I would be sitting at home and look down and see my resting HR in the low 30's and then go for a run and have it spike to 190 when I wore the strap I was never over 175.

Blueballs&beard wrote:

Anyone using this watch? I’m updating my Garmin and would appreciate any feedback.

I like track mode for track workouts. The Coros Pace 2 is the cheapest GPS watch with this feature, and if you regularly do track workouts, I think it is worth it. The GPS is on par with my cheaper Garmin forerunner 30, and the heart rate monitor is as good as any wrist heartrate monitor (that is it is not very good, but a nice addition if you don't really rely on accurate heart rate info).

Biggest drawbacks

1. track mode does not work that well for races, unless you start on the inside rail. Basically, the watch uses the first lap to calculate where the track is, then assumes all other laps are run on this idealized track. The problem is, if you start in lane 8 and merge during the first lap, the watch assumes your lap starts in lane 8, and just doesn't get it right. However, if you are in a race that either stays in lanes the whole way or you are running a workout in lane one, it works fantastic.

2. The scroll wheel is pretty annoying. The default is that you have to unlock your watch to start a workout by scrolling a wheel. The wheel is pretty finicky. You can fiddle with the settings to make this less of an issue, by making some of the features accessible via the buttons instead.

3. You'll probably want to fiddle with the display style options. I found the default not displaying the time as prominently as I wanted (way too small font). This is easy enough to customize though.

Overall it's a reasonably good watch for the price. I only work out on the track less than once a week so I wouldn't buy it again, but I would recommend it to others who do a lot of track workouts.

n9 wrote:

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Now, battery life. Not that it's bad, it's ok. But it's nowhere near advertised '20 hours of GPS'. I run 9-10 hours a week, 12 at most when pumping mileage and I have to charge it maybe every 6 days or so. I charge it whenever it's below 20% as going under 10 prevents sync, so maybe full 100 to 0 could give me 12-14 hours, but no way it could last 20. When I contacted Coros, they started pulling excuses like paired accessories shortening battery life, as well as cold weather, backlight options, etc. What the? I mean Garmin used to work for about 8-10 hours without me thinking about accessories or backlight modes. So if you're making a big deal of your long-lasting battery, have it work advertised 20 hours without any special energy saving options, otherwise I feel cheated and insulted.

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Hey, my understanding is that Coros advertises 30 hours of *full GPS*, which seems consistent with my experience. I work out 5-6 hours a week and get two full weeks of battery life, i.e., I’m getting ~11 hours of full GPS + nearly 14x24 = 336 hours of non-GPS watch function. Keep in mind that even if you don’t work out at all, the battery will eventually run out in a few weeks.

I have also noticed that just a one hour run by itself reduces the battery by less than 5%, which makes me think the watch would be comfortably beating alive if I continued running for 20 hours (although I’d be dead well before then).

Masters_Runner11 wrote:

I’m very disappointed in the workouts building part. Garmin you could choose from run, recover, rest, warmup, cool down.

This thing you don’t get an option of recover so if you want to build say a workout of 10 x 400m with 200m recovery you can’t. You have to choose rest and use HR or Time. They should really add in the recover option on the training portion and be able to choose distance

This is not true, you can certainly do what you ask. To make more complex programs, use the ‘Grouping’ function. Here is an example:

1) create a run interval of 400m but leave as only 1 set with no rest.

2) create a second run interval of 200m, again set as only 1 set with no rest.

3) tap grouping, and group the 400m and 200m intervals together. Repeat the grouping 10 times.

You can build virtually any blocks of intervals, rests, and time/distance based blocks which you can use as recovery as you see fit.

I stopped using my Gamin 945 and switched to Pace 2. It is a great lightweight watch that has everything I need. Evolab is also great!

Coros is an American company and not Chinese.

Pace 2 won’t allow an ‘open’ recovery in workouts. You have to predetermine time or distance. It’s also incredibly slow compared to Garmin in conjunction with Stryd. I sent it back. Garmin is just a more flexible and powerful device.

It allows an open recovery. I usually add open run parts at the end of eg long runs because sometimes the last a little longer than planned.