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Garmin Forerunner 965 In-Depth Review: Now with AMOLED Display!

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If you increase intensity, it’ll decrease your duration till death (in either distance or time). … Exceptionally good sleep can speed this up, and inversely, a high-stress day can slow this down.

Fitbit Blaze In-Depth Review

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But make no mistake – you need your phone if you want a GPS track or specific distances. … There’s no option to pair to ancillary sensors (like a speed or cadence sensor).

The Apple Watch: Sport and Fitness In-Depth Review

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Sure, you can show calories, distance, and sometimes floors. … This was a route with numerous climbs, which meant that speeds were slower (and thus less vibrations).

Garmin Edge 510 In-Depth Review

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Alerts can be configured for Time, Distance, Calories, Heart Rate, Cadence, Power, and Speed. … Within the tracking, they’ll get your little blue dot on a map, as well as your past track and your current ANT+ sensor data (Cadence/Heart Rate/Power/Speed), plus information such as total activity time and average speed (and avg pace for runners!).

Tacx Boost Trainer In-Depth Review

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They essentially increase or decrease the distance between the wheel and the resistance unit, which in turn will give proper resistance. … But it gained a speed sensor…mostly.

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”.

Garmin Edge 810 In-Depth Review

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For example, you can configure distance to display in metric (kilometers), while temperature remains in fahrenheit. … It’ll show your current location, your past track (where you’ve been), and your past and current ANT+ data (Cadence/Power/Heart Rate/Speed).

Garmin Vivoactive 4 Smartwatch In-Depth Review

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Just pretty much like every other GPS watch out there it’ll show your running stats in real-time, including your pace, distance, time, heart rate, and any other metrics you’ve added. … Oh, and sensor-wise it supports: heart rate, headphones, cycling speed/cadence, running footpod, Tempe (temperature sensor), ANT+ cycling lights, ANT+ cycling radar, as well as golfing club sensors.

Garmin ANT+ Foot Pods: Everything you ever wanted to know

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Of course, for data junkies like myself (and many of you) that means that the GPS signal on your various fitness devices is no longer able to record all the information you’re likely accustomed to – such as pace and distance. … Many of you from the ‘way-back’ era of...well...2000-ish, probably remember foot pods as the defacto way that sports watches could measure distance and speed – this being well before GPS fitness devices.

Suunto 9 Peak In-Depth Review

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Same goes for configuring zones, as well as setting a target for that workout (simply a duration or distance). … Now before we start the activity, let’s briefly talk about sensor connectivity, such as external heart rate sensors, power meters, and speed/cadence sensors.

Suunto Ambit3 Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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It lacks the ability to tell me steps, distance walked, or sleep. … This meant that it no longer connects to ANT+ sensors for things like heart rate straps, running,cycling speed/cadence sensors, and power meters.

Garmin Fenix 7 Pro In-Depth Review: Flashlight and Multiband for Everyone!

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Alongside that, my wife has been busy putting the smaller 42mm Fenix 7S Pro to the test in all her training for an upcoming long-distance race. … Within the custom mode, you can change the mode type (Blink/Blitz/Beacon/Pulse), the speed (slow/medium/fast), and the color (red/white).

Garmin Edge 500 In Depth Review

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This enables it to determine things like speed and distance without any additional hardware required (such as a speed sensor on the wheel). … Also, keep in mind that if you buy the cheaper edition ($100 cheaper) without a HR strap and cadence/speed sensor – then you won’t have any HR strap in your box.

Timex R300 $129 GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review

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So that leaves us next with the Activity bits, which is where we can see Steps, Distance, Calories, and Heart Rate. … It’s pretty quick in most cases, clearly leveraging satellite cache data from the smartphone (like most companies) to speed it up.

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.

First look at Polar’s new V800 GPS triathlon watch

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Once you’ve tapped that button, the unit is recording and actively displaying pace/distance/heart rate, and any other metrics you’ve configured. … They key difference is that in cycling mode you’ll switch over to ‘speed’ versus ‘pace’, which means using MPH or KPH such as 20MPH or 15MPH.

COROS Pace 2 Hands-On: A $199 Multisport watch with Running Power

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The first is the ability to change the distance setting to toggle between Stryd and GPS:… And you can see from the speeds, they were.

Garmin Fenix 7 Series In-Depth Review

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In any event, once we press start, the watch will start gathering data from our workout, showing pace, distance, time, and any other data fields you’ve added, depending on the sport. … Further, there are options for speed including slow, medium, and fast.

Polar Vantage V Multisport GPS In-Depth Review

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Oddly however, you can’t see on the watch your distance walked per day or stairs – both common attributes found in inexpensive activity trackers. … You can store power meters (cycling or running), cycling cadence sensors, cycling speed sensors, running footpods, and external HR straps.

Garmin Forerunner 265/265S In-Depth Review: AMOLED in Two Sizes!

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It’ll notify you how far till the next turn, and usually how much distance is remaining on the course. … Exceptionally good sleep can speed this up, and inversely, a high-stress day can slow this down.

Epson Runsense SF-810 GPS watch with optical HR: In-Depth Review

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In any event, you can configure this based on a variety of parameters such as distance or time. … It’s not unbearable, but it’s not McSpeedy either.

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.

Garmin Edge 1000 In-Depth Review

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While cycling speed and distance will automatically come from the GPS (you don't need a separate speed sensor). … Whereas the bundle comes with the base unit, then the speed sensor, cadence sensor, and heart rate strap.

Hands-on with Garmin’s new Forerunner 25

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Data Fields To Choose: Time, Distance, Pace, Calories, Lap time, Lap Distance, Lap Pace, Avg. … The unit supports pre-caching of satellite data to speed up initial acquisition time.

Mio Alpha Optical Heart Rate Monitor In-Depth Review (Bluetooth Smart/ANT+)

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A: Does a heart rate strap record your distance? No. … I wrote a fun post up on it back a couple months ago, showing some of the capabilities, where I recorded my heart rate from waking up to falling asleep – which included a full day trip for work on the high speed train and back.

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