If you actually want to use a GPS watch to time something you care about, you don't want to go "no frills" with it. You'll be buying something better in a month.
If you actually want to use a GPS watch to time something you care about, you don't want to go "no frills" with it. You'll be buying something better in a month.
Who bumped my thread? Anyways, I’m looking at a Garmin Forerunner or the Epson watches. Seems like those the best options for enough features without all the smart watch-type extras. The Epson watches seem huge, so I think that I’m leaning towards Garmin at this point.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Who bumped my thread? Anyways, I’m looking at a Garmin Forerunner or the Epson watches. Seems like those the best options for enough features without all the smart watch-type extras. The Epson watches seem huge, so I think that I’m leaning towards Garmin at this point.
But which Garmin? To me leaning towards garmin is almost like being undecided. They have watches that cost between $100 and $500 or something. The question is does the cheapest Garmin meet the no-frills but you can still take lap splits at the track requirement?
My experience with the original TomTom Cardio was that the split/manual lap functionality was terrible because the button was a light/touch sensor and not a traditional analog button. As soon as my hands got sweaty or if it was raining the lap functionality became very unreliable and hard to use. It was also hard to get the manual laps to work consistently well while moving at sub 6:00 pace.
I have had the garmin 35 for a year and it's great. Just enough features without getting silly.
Accurate and gets signal in a few seconds.
Automatic bluetooth uploading to the phone is nice.
up to 4 customize-able screens
wrist hr (of any brand) is useless to do workouts or races with, but accurate enough during regular runs to keep you in check on recovery days
Old HS coach wrote:
So what you are looking for is like a Timex Ironman watch with a GPS? I would LOVE to find one like that too. I find all the Garmins confusing.
That seems like the ideal watch.
Once I know the distance I'm running and mile and half mile markers, all I need is the old Ironman Timex.