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Garmin Forerunner 310XT In Depth Review

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For example – say you set the pace for 8:00/mile – and then you go off and run two miles at an 8:10/mile pace (thus a time of 16:20 instead of 16:00), it will now show you as 20 seconds behind the little man, as well as how far behind you are (by distance). … As you start running you’ll notice that the displayed pace starts to reduce down to your actual speed.

Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS Watch & Daily Activity Monitor In-Depth Review

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All ended up with a final distance within .03 miles. … Note, for the pace/speed metric you can choose whether to display “Average Pace/Speed”, “Current-Instant Pace/Speed” or “Lap Pace/Speed”.

Polar V800 Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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If you don’t, it’ll take much longer and you won’t get accurate data (distance/pace/etc…). … Again, a footpod is NOT required to get speed/distance/pace while outdoors (that’ll come from GPS).

Garmin Forerunner 735XT In-Depth Review

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However, in my testing I found some ways to get around that for those pushing the limits of the battery capacity for a full iron-distance race. … It’s just that now you get speed instead of pace.

Timex Ironman GPS Global Trainer In Depth Review

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Performance mode has five screens (called views) that you can customize with up to four data fields you’d like to display – such as ‘Time’, ‘Distance’, ‘Speed’, etc… I’ll talk more about that later on in the software configuration piece. … While running, once a lap has been triggered, it will automatically display summary information for that lap, such as heart rate, pace and speed.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Garmin HRM-RUN

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Pace and distance is different however. … You’ll also notice as I warm-up it gets faster (in part, because I’m speeding up the treadmill).

Garmin Fenix In-Depth Review

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Time, distance, lap time, etc… It’s not a heavily running focused watch in that it doesn’t have features like Virtual Pacer or intervals or workouts. … One thing you’ll want to do though is switch the profile over to Cycling, so that it shows speeds in MPH (or Kilometers per hour).

Garmin Vivosport In-Depth Review

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Selecting outdoors will enable search for GPS, while indoors it’ll use the accelerometer for pace/distance. … So no ANT+ heart rate sensors or speed/cadence sensors for cycling.

Garmin HRM-PRO Plus Heart Rate Strap In-Depth Review

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The new HRM-PRO Plus adds an indoor run pace & distance option, while also changing the battery door situation to be tool-less (hopefully reducing straps dying after battery swaps). … Here you can see I’ve got it paired as a running footpod (speed), a heart rate sensor, and a running cadence sensor (all via Bluetooth Smart in this case).

Garmin Forerunner 220 In-Depth Review

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By default this will cover things like pace, distance, time, and heart rate. … Whereas in reality, the below FR610 tops out at 5:23/mile, which is within :01/mile of the specified treadmill speed (point scored for footpod!).

Garmin Fenix3 Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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First is to use the built-in accelerometer within the Fenix3 to capture pace and distance. … You can go ahead and pair to trainers such as the Wahoo KICKR or TACX Smart series trainers, which broadcast open ANT+ metrics like power, speed and cadence.

Motorola MOTOACTV In Depth Review

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Inside the watch can use either an ANT+ footpod, or it can use the units internal accelerometer to estimate distance. … In other words, using the internal accelerometer you can just jump on a treadmill without any additional accessories and get speed and distance.

Garmin Forerunner 55 In-Depth Review

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You can customize the Interval duration based on distance, time, or lap button (open), as well as the number of repeats and rest duration/distance/lap, plus if you want to add a warm-up or cool-down. … From a sensor standpoint the FR55 is fairly basic, but it does support external ANT+ & Bluetooth heart rate sensors (such as a chest strap), as well as ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart cycling cadence sensors, speed sensors, and combo speed/cadence sensors.

Garmin Forerunner 230 & 235 In-Depth Review

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At this point, the unit will show you current pace from GPS as well as distance and any other metrics you choose. … As far as sensors goes, the FR230 & FR235 both support connecting to ANT+ heart rate sensors, ANT+ footpods, and ANT+ cycling speed/cadence sensors (more on the bike stuff later).

Garmin Forerunner 610 In Depth Review

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It works quite some distance away (a few rooms away). … And finally, if you have an ANT+ bike speed/cadence sensor – you guessed it, you’d want to pair that as well.

Apple Watch Series 4: Sports & Fitness In-Depth Review

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Note that distance isn’t usually significantly impacted for running, since it’ll use the accelerometer to estimate distance instead during that time period. … My suspicion here is that the swooshing corners is directly related to either your speed or running cadence.

Apple Watch Series 3: Sport & Fitness In-Depth Review

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The unit will show you pace and distance and HR in real-time. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.

COROS Pace 2 In-Depth Review: A $199 Multisport watch with Running Power

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You can also tweak a couple of minor settings, including some alerts (Distance/Pace/Cadence/Heart Rate/Nutrition), enable/disable Auto Pause, and turn on/off the metronome. … And you can see from the speeds, they were.

Polar RC3 integrated GPS watch In-Depth Review

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In the below photo, I’ve selected to show my current pace (7:30/mile), my current lap distance (.49 miles), and the current lap time (4 minutes and 1 second). … When you first turn it on, you’ll go through a typical Monty Python style questioning asking for language, age, weight, airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow and more.

Polar M400 GPS & Activity Tracker Watch In-Depth Review

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With the internal accelerometer the unit will track steps, distance, and sleep (along with calories), throughout your day. … This function relies upon you moving to function however, since it’s not a magnetic compass but rather one that takes into account your current speed.

Garmin Forerunner 110 In Depth Product Review

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At this point, it’ll start to show you distance travelled, lap pace – and if you have the heart rate strap, your current heart rate. … In the ‘instant pace’ scenario, the speed/pace would show your speed at that exact point in time (fast).

Garmin Forerunner 645 Music GPS Running Watch In-Depth Review

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In addition to standard pages, you’ve also got functions that include auto lap (based on a pre-defined distance of your choosing), lap banner customization (to specify what info is shown when a lap is triggered), auto scroll (constantly changes your data pages while your run), auto pause (pauses the timer at a stop-light), and metronome (self-explanatory). … It can pair to ANT+ or Bluetooth Smart speed and cadence sensors (speed-only, cadence-only, and speed/cadence combo).

Garmin Enduro GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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Basically you can now set one of two alerts, either an alert at the start of the climb, or an alert prior to the climb, at a configurable distance ahead of it – for example, .25 miles or .50 kilometers (configurable in whichever system you use). … Given that we are using heart rate as the key input to determine your effort, it’s important to understand that there are times when your current HR accurately reflects your current speed and there are times when it does not.

Garmin Forerunner 210 In Depth Review

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Like nearly all devices within the Garmin fitness line, the FR210 contains the Auto Lap capability, which allows you to automatically have the unit create lap markers at pre-determined distances. … The reason for this was that folks new to GPS based speed and pace found that the instant pace jumped around too much – due to the way the GPS watches handle slight changes in satellite reception and changing accuracy information.

Apple Watch vs Garmin Watch: Skiing Features Tested!

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In cases where you go very briefly uphill (such as having to hike a short distance), it seems to handle those correctly as a single cohesive run in all my testing. … If I tap on the 3D map, I can look at each run individually, top speeds, heart rate, zoom in/out, etc… You’ll also see above that it pulled in all the photos/videos I took during that timeframe while skiing - this is a nice touch.

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