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Garmin Forerunner 910XT In Depth Review

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The watch builds on many areas that the FR305 and then FR310XT had – including a slimmer profile then either of those watches, and a new pool swimming mode to track your distance while swimming laps. … Each bike can then store a slew of different saved parameters, such as ANT+ sensor details (power/speed/cadence) and wheel size/bike weight.

Timex Run Trainer GPS 2.0 In-Depth Review

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You can also utilize time instead of distance, if you want it to automatically lap after – say 5 minutes – as opposed to 1 mile. … You’ll simply set a threshold pace (or speed), depending on which configuration setting you’re in.

Timex Run Trainer 1.0 GPS In-Depth Review

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In this case, you can configure goals for distance and altitude (total). … Zones: You can configure zones based on Heart Rate, Speed, and Cadence.

Garmin Fenix2 Multisport Watch In-Depth Review

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But in general most folks will use fields like pace, distance, heart rate, and time. … Alerts can be defined for proximity, distance, time, elevation, navigational arrival, speed, pace, heart rate, cadence, and battery.

Apple Watch Series 2 and Nike+ Edition: Sport & Fitness In-Depth Review

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These settings include goals – distance, time, or calories. … Yet, if I use that device with Live Track enabled, it somehow blocks the Apple Watch Series 2 GPS from functioning (it’ll give zero distance and speed readouts).

Garmin Forerunner 620 In-Depth Review

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By default this will be things like pace, distance, time and heart rate. … You’ll likely see this number fluctuate directly with that of cadence, which in many people's situations tends to also correlate with speed.

Garmin Forerunner 920XT In-Depth Review

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At this point the unit will start showing you pace and distance from GPS. … The FR920XT uses satellite caching to speed up satellite acquisition time.

The Magellan Switch Up In-Depth Review

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Now, I knew going into the event that the unit wasn’t designed to measure distance accurately on your wrist (or stoke information). … Once in cycling mode, the unit will now display speed information as MPH or KPH, depending on how you’ve configured it.

Nike+ Sportwatch GPS In Depth Review

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As you’re running the main display will show the overall distance of the run. … First up is that as of this writing the Sportwatch doesn’t contain any cycling mode, which means it can’t show you speed in MPH/KPH, but rather instead shows it in Minutes/Mile (or Minutes/Kilometer) – as if you were running [Update: This has been added in a firmware update, speed can now be shown].

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).

Suunto Run In-Depth Review: $249 with Offline Music & More!

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And then, within that, there are five different profile types: Free, Duration, Distance, Calorie, and Ghost Runner. … - No Power Meter Support: It does support external heart rate sensors, external footpads, but not power meters or speed/cadence sensors.

Garmin Vivoactive HR In-Depth Review

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That also shows you distance walked and floors climbed. … The unit can also pair to ANT+ Speed & Cadence sensors.

Garmin’s new Vivoactive HR & Vivofit 3: Hands-on & First Run

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I was mostly interested in how the watch handled on pace and heart rate, as well as just general use like the touch screen and distance accuracy. … At present it supports the ANT+ Heart Rate straps, ANT+ Cycling Speed/Cadence sensors, ANT+ Running Footpod, and the ANT+ Tempe temperature sensor.

Suunto Ambit 2 and 2S In-Depth Review

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After pressing the start button to begin running you’ll see your pace, distance, HR and any other metric you’ve configured on the screen. … While running there’s an option called ‘FusedSpeed’, which effectively blends together accelerometer based wrist movements with GPS speed in an attempt to smooth out your speed and provide a smoother pacing experience.

Suunto Ambit In-Depth Review

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The Suunto Ambit is the first GPS device out on the market that’s very clearly targeted at ultra runners – and those wanting to go long distances for a long time, upwards of 50+ hours. … Additionally, the device claims smoothed GPS paces using a new ‘FusedSpeed’ technology, as well as a 3D compass and barometric altimeter.

Garmin FR60 Review – In Depth

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That factor is then used in future runs to give you a more accurate recorded distance of your run. … The challenge with these algorithms is that in many cases they don’t account for changes in stride that are accompanied by terrain changes (hills), weather conditions (snow), or performance increases (speed).

Polar RCX5 In Depth Review

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Next up is the s3+ stride sensor, or footpod, which enables you to track speed and distance indoors while on a treadmill, as well as track cadence information. … sensors such as speed (primarily for on a trainer) and cadence.

Polar’s Unite Fitness Watch: Hands-on Details and First Run

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It’s also where you can dive into the settings and pair your phone, sensors, and change things like how it displays certain details such as distance or the time of day. … I’d have expected/hoped that Polar would use blended accelerometer-based speed with GPS speed to smooth that out, but that didn’t seem to be the case here.

Garmin Vivoactive In-Depth Review

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This means that it tracks your steps, distance, and calories from your daily wanderings around the world. … Note that it doesn’t contain a magnetic compass, so you must be travelling forward for the little directional arrow to work (as it uses GPS speed/direction to determine where you’re going).

Fitbit Surge In-Depth Review

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The Fitbit Surge continues with the same functionality found in all other Fitbit models as far as step, distance and general calorie tracking throughout the day. … There appears to be almost no satellite caching, with only the slightest of speed increases if I start exactly in the same spot as my previous run – but even that was often questionable.

Polar RCX3 In-Depth Review

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This allows you to measure speed/distance on the bike without the GPS sensor. … Then we have the cycling speed sensor, which is included in the RCX3 Bike package.

Garmin Forerunner 630 In-Depth Review

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As you run the unit will use GPS for pace and distance. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.

Garmin Forerunner 410 In Depth Review

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Typically I’ve found that this completes and finds its space friends in as little at 10-15 seconds for places you’ve been to frequently, or up to a minute if you’ve travelled a great distance. … You can select three different speeds – Slow, Medium and Fast, as well as simply ‘Off’.

Suunto Ambit2 R In-Depth Review

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Fastest satellite acquisition ever after such a long distance away from last turn-on (12hr flight from Europe). … In doing so it will greatly speed up acquisition of satellites while standing outside.

Adidas Smart Run GPS In-Depth Review

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The default page shows your heart rate, along with distance and time below it. … In an effort to speed up satellite connection time, the unit pre-caches the satellite information ahead of time.

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