Purchasing a Coros GPS watch ?

watchaholic wrote:

I need information about the Coros GPS watch !

how would you compare it to Garmin or Polar

Currently i am having a Polar and must say it is really really bad ...

Is it good for tracking intervals on the track (does it show .01 or just .1? )

What about user friendly such as garmin ?

Just give me everything I might need to know which new sport watch I should get !

Thanks

I use the Pace 2 and mostly love it. Needs charging every couple weeks’ish.

It has a track mode and it gives you distances to two decimal places. You can specify which lane you are running, so the track mode is more accurate than just GPS.

It’s very user friendly to me. Some might find the rotary dial new, but I quickly got used to it and like that there’s just two buttons with robust tactile feedback (unlike some Polar watched with depressed buttons) and one of the buttons is also a dial.

Great analytics for needing out although most of it is also just gimmicky. Gives you running power.

HR can sometimes act weird but that’s true of all optical HR devices.

GPS almost always latches on within 15-45 seconds but on rare occasions, it inexplicably takes several minutes even in open areas. Again, I’ve not seen any running watch latch immediately like the Apple Watch does, so it doesn’t bother me.

Some minor weirdnesses like it won’t show you Last Lap Distance on the watch face (after briefly flashing it) after the end of a lap, but it does show time, pace, speed (redundant with pace), HR etc for the last lap. You can see all distances for all laps at the end of the run course.

It shows 2 decimal places.

Scroll button needs some getting used to/learning curve and the first time you'll undoubtedly curse it because it will be on scroll lock or something during an activity but you can then change it. (Literally imagine trying to do an interval with the watch and then being told you have to make a full revolution on the wheel you've just seen for the first time to pause/stop the lap).

But once that's off there's no problem.

Can't set a new lap while paused like Garmin. Coros for some reason doesn't see the flaw in this...?

HR and GPS in activities are scary good. Garmin will tell me I'm having a heart attack during a run. Can be conversing running 8:00 mile and Garmin might say my HR is 185 lol. Coros will give me the correct 125 bmp. Also Garmin will give me an instant pace of like 9:00 there while Coros will be better.

Just get the Pace 2. Best bang for your buck.

Why do you need it to measure while you are on a track?

I use a gps with foot pod to tell me distance I run on a track in warmup or cool down, when going in various lanes and changing directions or whatever, but for intervals, I manually split. Do you use the watch to tell you how far 400m is on the track?

cyanide wrote:

(Literally imagine trying to do an interval with the watch and then being told you have to make a full revolution on the wheel you've just seen for the first time to pause/stop the lap).

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So to take a manual lap or stop the watch it's not pressing a button but doing a revolution of the button ?

cyanide wrote: (Literally imagine trying to do an interval with the watch and then being told you have to make a full revolution on the wheel you've just seen for the first time to pause/stop the lap).

But once that's off there's no problem.

I never use the scroll lock. Pausing or starting a new lap has always been a single confident button press to me. I also wear the watch on my right hand, so the dial is towards my elbow and it’s not possible to accidentally press or turn it, which is what I think the lock is for.

watchaholic wrote:

cyanide wrote:

(Literally imagine trying to do an interval with the watch and then being told you have to make a full revolution on the wheel you've just seen for the first time to pause/stop the lap).

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So to take a manual lap or stop the watch it's not pressing a button but doing a revolution of the button ?

No, no decent running watch worth its salt including Coros would make you do anything other than press a button to change a lap. I press a button on my Pace 2 for changing laps.

Imimpresssed wrote:

Why do you need it to measure while you are on a track?

I use a gps with foot pod to tell me distance I run on a track in warmup or cool down, when going in various lanes and changing directions or whatever, but for intervals, I manually split. Do you use the watch to tell you how far 400m is on the track?

I don’t use it to know how far 400m or any distance on the track is because eyes. If all you need is interval distances/times on track and you pre-program an interval workout or run distances by memory, you basically don’t need GPS at all, in which case track mode is not useful.

Track mode is just more accurate GPS. If you happen to be doing fartlek style running or HR based running etc. on track or don’t run fixed round number distances marked on the track and/or want a more accurate GPS measurement for the total distance you ran on the track that day, track mode is useful. What you are probably observing is that your foot pod already gives you that more accurate GPS that Coros’ track mode gives you without needing a foot pod.

That said, you can’t change lanes in the middle of a workout, so it’s not a replacement for more accurate GPS unless you can stick to a lane (which is never a problem for me on track days).

There are many times you press stop instead of lap button for various reasons (accident, someone else timing the rests etc). If you're serious about intervals than if you've pressed stop you must restart the lap and accrue extra time to start another lap.

I don't always think straight when doing track work ok? I'd rather have the lap dealt with when paused. Maybe you're about to start a lap after pausing for the warmup, but then to start your interval you have to then press start and lap. If other people are going you might have been a second behind in the interval.

It's just easier, ok?

runne wrote:

I never use the scroll lock. Pausing or starting a new lap has always been a single confident button press to me. I also wear the watch on my right hand, so the dial is towards my elbow and it’s not possible to accidentally press or turn it, which is what I think the lock is for.

Yeah this is just day 1 problems... giving out a warning to OP so they don't go arrggh wtf is this juvy bs and throw their watch at a rock.