Coros Pace 2 reviews?

I do. Love it as a running watch and don’t care for anything more from a running watch. Lightweight and amazing battery life.

I also wear an Apple Watch on the other wrist for music, payments, and urgent phone calls as I don’t like running with a phone. The total cost of the two watches is still less than a Garmin with the same combined features.

arunaround wrote:

I do. Love it as a running watch and don’t care for anything more from a running watch. Lightweight and amazing battery life.

I also wear an Apple Watch on the other wrist for music, payments, and urgent phone calls as I don’t like running with a phone. The total cost of the two watches is still less than a Garmin with the same combined features.

Do you use ‘Track Mode’? How does it work?

Yes, especially love that. You can set the lane number and it simply is more accurate than GPS alone. Also visually shows a perfect track for what you ran on the map instead of a crickety approximation.

You can’t switch within a workout from/to track mode to regular, so I usually just don’t log my warmup run to and cool down run back from the track on the campus near my place, but you can log them as three separate workouts if you really want to log all of the mileage.

arunaround wrote:

Yes, especially love that. You can set the lane number and it simply is more accurate than GPS alone. Also visually shows a perfect track for what you ran on the map instead of a crickety approximation.

You can’t switch within a workout from/to track mode to regular, so I usually just don’t log my warmup run to and cool down run back from the track on the campus near my place, but you can log them as three separate workouts if you really want to log all of the mileage.

Thank you for your input. Sounds good!

I have it.

I'd absolutely buy it again.

Track mode is dead on. It's kind of cool however it works.

I admit I haven't fully played around with all the settings/setup options.

Super lightweight..not as clunky as a lot of the Garmin models on my smaller wrist. I don't really care that it's plastic v metal.

It's accurate... Only times I've had it off are in the mountains where it's heavy tree cover and a road with several sharp turns.. but every gps watch struggles with this.

No ABC function if you care about that. It's a running watch. Not a hiking watch.

I've had the Pace 1 for two years and I am happy with it.

I’m coming from a Garmin 235 so sounds like a nice upgrade. I’ve been using a Stryd footpod to improve pace/distance accuracy under tree cover but turned off the GPS so I wouldn’t have to recharge every other day. Sounds like Stryd support is built into the Pace 2 so it will hopefully be a nice do-it-all running setup.

I was a Garmin 235/245 guy for about 6 years and swapped to the Pace 2 the last six months. Watch itself if great, does everything you'd expect of a premium sport watch. I've used track mode, the swimming mode, and regular GPS runs- all great. It is very simple to upload a workout to the watch. The app/ watch interface is admittedly not as great as Garmin's, just a bit clunky and lacks some creature comforts (I really want a weekly mileage total on my watch face and the ability to remove things I don't care about i.e temperature). But COROS is constantly upgrading it and adding in features so I'm very hopeful it will be great in the next year. Seems like they're getting huge influx of profit and keep signing new athletes, so small features here and there are surely in the pipeline. In my experience the metrics are better on the Pace 2 though, Vo2 and recovery advisor seems spot on. Garmin would routinely tell me I had 3+ days of rest after regular runs while COROS will give me a '8 hours of easy training or 12 to hard training' which is much more in line with how my body really feels. I think I'll be a COROS guy for the foreseeable future.

Been wanting to upgrade from my Vivoactive 3 and I've been eyeing this one up... Might have to grab one.

Recently got one. Overall definitely like it. A couple things I liked and a couple things I didn't:

Good:

-Very lightweight

-The screen that shows while running is actually customizable. Other watches have claimed customizability and then their idea of customizable is choosing whether to display data fields A, B, and C or D, E, and F, or G, H, and I. With this I can choose which three data fields I want displayed and which order to display them in. I'm probably explaining this terribly but it is exactly how I wanted it.

Bad:

-Watch band is uncomfortable when not running (not a big deal to me since I only wear it when running)

-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.

I sold mine for 2 reasons

1) I'm pretty much all in in the Garmin ecosystem.

2) the crown was annoying.

More for No. 2 than No. 1. I never used running power.

I don't think you need to switch back and forth to and from track mode for a warm up/track/warm down run. I set track mode when I leave my house. It measures distance normally during my warmup, and then snaps to the track when I start my workout, then reverts to normal measuring when I cool down on my way home.

Maybe you've got a wonky situation. My Coros Apex picks up a GPS signal massively faster than my prior watch (Suunto Ambit).

Makes Paper wrote:

I don't think you need to switch back and forth to and from track mode for a warm up/track/warm down run. I set track mode when I leave my house. It measures distance normally during my warmup, and then snaps to the track when I start my workout, then reverts to normal measuring when I cool down on my way home.

That's great to know- thank you!

I am also a new Pace 2 user for the last several months. Very happy with it, would agree with all the positives that others have said about battery life, weight, features.

One thing I really like is the ability to set customized displays for different workout modes, so you can toggle between them (e.g., one watch face will show you total mileage, total time, etc.-- and another one will show you lap time, lap pace, current pace, etc.). I do agree that twisting the crown is annoying though, it's not super easy to toggle between these displays while you are running.

The only other criticism I have is the accuracy of the optical HR, although I have no idea if other brands would be better (this is my first running watch). The resting HR is all over the place and at least 10-15 bpm faster than my true resting HR, and it responds quite sluggishly to increases during intervals. I don't care too much about the HR monitoring, but if you are serious about it, would highly recommend connecting the watch to a chest strap monitor.

How tight is the watch to your wrist? I know some reviewers have noticed some similar HR variation, but many times (with not just Coros) the watch isn't tight enough or positioned correctly

10/10 battery life is insane very accurate on track heart rate monitor is consistent with a finger monitor and chest strap monitor

yeah its good - more accurate than garmin and the first wrist HR that actually works

corosoroc wrote:

yeah its good - more accurate than garmin and the first wrist HR that actually works

little bit of a learning curve as its not as polished as garmin in terms of menus and setup but it's fairly customizable.

coros? wrote:

How tight is the watch to your wrist? I know some reviewers have noticed some similar HR variation, but many times (with not just Coros) the watch isn't tight enough or positioned correctly

Probably some of the resting HR is due to wearing it comfortably. During runs, I strap it in as tight as I can without feeling uncomfortable from the compression. It's tight enough that if I forget to loosen it after I run, I will notice it hurting me after working on the computer for an hour or so.

I'm not saying it's totally worthless, it certainly correlates with my effort level during runs. But as I mentioned, it does not respond well during short intervals. If I were seriously tracking my training zones using HR, I don't think it would be good enough. Perhaps I'll get a chest strap for comparison...