txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Running time, distance and average pace. I never found current pace to be reliable because it would change drastically depending if I was near a tall building, ender trees, etc.
I like to know the current pace, all the while knowing... around certain corners ...it is not accurate, and for the average pace, I have mile splits pop up on screen, then can calculate in my head based off of past remembered splits and total distance.
I can configure four screens, and they are:
Time, so I can see how close I am to breaking whatever
Lap pace, to keep me on track each mile
Average pace, to keep me on track per goal
Current pace, which is barely useful, but does allow me to see if I've slowed or sped up drastically before my mile split tells me - and it's too late to correct.
Now, I am not spending a lot of time looking at my watch, but it's nice to know that the info is there if I need it. If I could only have one metric, it would be lap pace.
Girl eating Cheez-its wrote:
I can configure four screens, and they are:
Time, so I can see how close I am to breaking whatever
Lap pace, to keep me on track each mile
Average pace, to keep me on track per goal
Current pace, which is barely useful, but does allow me to see if I've slowed or sped up drastically before my mile split tells me - and it's too late to correct.
Now, I am not spending a lot of time looking at my watch, but it's nice to know that the info is there if I need it. If I could only have one metric, it would be lap pace.
Time: I think I would only look at that near the end of the race and at that point I am fighting to keep my pace from slowing.
Lap pace so I can tell myself for the first 3 miles or so that I am going out too fast and need to slow down while for the last 8 miles I can see how much I am falling off my average pace. At this point I am fighting to not slow down so much that I miss my goals.
Average pace to see how far I am under my average goal pace for the entire race.
Current pace I have never found useful. I don't know if it is accurate on the Garmins I have used and prefer lap pace with the lap being a quarter mile. A quarter mile is short enough to let me know how much I slowed on the past hill and short enough to give me more feedback so my mile is not way too fast or too slow.
Distance: I don't want to really know how far I have run until mile 18 or so when it starts to hurt. At that point I count down the remaining miles by saying in my mind I have only 8 miles to go. 8 miles is a not a hard run in training is what I tell myself. I tell myself I can run 8 miles any day and will not waste the miles I have completed successful by giving up when I am so close to the finish. My Garmin gives my lap number for each quarter mile split so I can easily convert that in my head to total distance.
For training runs I only look at lap pace and average pace.
RW down degraded this place wrote:
Is this a now a RW crowd? Leave the watch at home and hammer.
why are you so angry?
you should try some Gallowalking and do some breathing exercises, that will help you with your anger issues.
Instagram and Facebook notifications so I can see when someone I know posts a selfie from a different part of the course.
CURRENT PACE
MILE PACE
TOTAL DISTANCE
TOTAL TIME
If I wear a watch, elapsed time only.
ratchet time wrote:
If I wear a watch, elapsed time only.
That. Or maybe split time too.
A race is a time you don't need GPS. You have mile markers.
On one watch
Average Pace
Lap Pace
HR
Second Watch
Distance
Time ( to check vs. mile splits)
Don't need to push buttons to see everything I need.
Old man (60) Half best of 1:35.24 this Sunday with this arrangement and with on my feet incredible Nike Zoom Vapor Fly 4%. Best half time in almost 10 years.
Not sure why anyone uses current pace on most road courses. The only current pace I have found useful in iSmoothrun app where you can set 10,30,60 sec pace. Any watches work this way for current pace?
Lap pace and HR.
Funny thing is, my masters 5K PR was set on a day when my Garmin crapped out 10 minutes before the race. So, for the first time in years, I ran with nothing on my wrist. As it happened, it was a very small town race (Water Valley, Mississippi) and I found myself in the lead after the first half mile. So I just ran, hard, pushing hard but also holding a tiny something in reserve in case somebody came up on me. It was out and back, with a bit of an uphill towards the turnaround point and then, of course, a long downhilll after that.
I recommend that every runner run a race that way every once in a while. You forget about time and pace and HR. You just listen very closely to your body, and race the people who are actually around you.
Correction: lap pace, total distance, current HR
True American............. wrote:
I dont never keep no metrics on my watch. Only MILES AND MINUTES!!!!!!!!
You don't never keep no metrics except for two that you mentioned?
I don't even keep the miles.
Just the running time.
Here's a race screen app which tells you all kinds of stuff:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/6a30651b-ca67-41a5-96dc-60634983fc93
I don't watch the watch when I race but when it auto-laps on the mile I look at the split (sometimes), although I am absorbed enough in the race that I miss the lap about 20% of the time (usually mid-late mile splits). Actually, I lied. I looked at the total distance in the last 8k race around mile 3.3 to see how far from the next mile marker I was. As for what it does say on screen 1: total distance, total time, total pace. screen 2 (used for intervals) has lap time, lap pace, and lap distance. I used to show HR but the Garmin optical HRM is too flakey to be that useful to me and I'm not HR-training anyway.
my metrics wrote:
Pure hate and number of hammers dropped
Sometimes I include my rate of hammers dropped per lap
GBohannon wrote:
Total Distance
Total Time
Lap Pace
This. Extremely surprised that it took a full page to find someone with the same as mine. This is the only reasonable set of 3 things to put on it IMO.
Assuming that GPS will not always be accurate in NYC, and that I won't be running the tangents exactly as the course is measured, I plan to turn auto-lap OFF. Then I'll manually lap at each mile marker to know my exact splits. Thinking these may be what will be helpful:
1. Average lap time
2. Lap pace
3. Total Time
My friend who has run NYC 4 times says autolap is prettt accurate in NYC. I plan to use distance, lap pace, power, and HR so far with a second screen with total time.
Total distance
Heart rate
Current pace
Sreen 1:
Total time
Total distance
Total pace
Screen 2:
Lap time
Lap distance
Lap pace
Screen3:
Heart rate
Heart rate zone