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Why would you want to do that, though?
First, I'll happily disclaim the difference between "want" and "need". As mikeymike or Scout7 (or you) could readily point out, I don't NEED it to do that at all. Hell, you don't even "need" a watch. Do Kenyan children obsess over their Casios?
But take today's striders, for example: I run them over about 100m, then take a walking recovery until my HR gets down to 105 (it runs pretty low to begin with). Yes, I most certainly could run the entire thing by feel and be absolutely none the worse for wear. But (a) I like not having to look at my watch to see my HR, but instead just hearing it beep and knowing it's time to roll on the next strider; (b) I geek out looking at the data afterward and seeing how consistent my 100m striders were or how long it took for my HR to get back down to 105; and (c) I can compare those times/recoveries to previous striders, which I tend to run on the same stretch of road anyway. GTC is easy enough to use that setting up the workout is a quick and painless event for me.
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Does the 210 not basically do this? I was looking at a comparison between the 110 and the 210, and the only difference seems to be that you can pre-program interval sessions on the 210.
Garmin's website says you can set up interval/rest workouts in the 210, but that you cannot use it to create "custom, goal-oriented workouts."
Fast is better than long
I have the 210 and you can set up an interval on the watch. You have to go through a "wizard" where you can specify distance, time or HR as a goal for the hard part or the rest part.
If all the intervals will be the same, then you can say "...repeat x times"
If the intervals are different then you get to keep pressing buttons.
You cannot push a workout from the GTC to the watch.
Also I don't think you can save a workout, or have two different workouts on teh watch at teh same time.
I have this watch and never had a bezel version. I like the form factor, it looks like a watch and I don't have the inadvertant button presses. I do howvever forget to press the button a lot. I don't look at my watch during, I just like that it records the data and I can analyze after.
Also after calibrating my foot pod on a track, it seems very accurate, based upon treadmill milage and GPS training runs over the same course.
That is all
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Cool... thanks for the info, guys. I'll probably end up sitting on the fence with my Ironman until someone buys me a Garmin as a gift. So, a long time.
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20th Century Fox presents - Garmin Quest! (This is what I keep seeing when I see this thread). Carry on.
The 110 does not give you actual pace, while the 210 does.
Garmin actually marketed a GPS device called the Quest. (As well as the new-and-improved Quest 2.)
My understanding is that the 20 uses a "new" formula for current pace. It is actually a very localized moving average so that the value changes more smoothly. I am told the 110 used to give you 7:00 - 7:15 - 7:01 in a short time because it was a "true" last sat. value.
YMMV and I can only attest to the 210: it never spikes our give irradict paces.
You don't need footpod for 305 unless using on treadmill. I have 305 and love it.
Agree; love my 305 as well; not sure what the "Return Home" feature is but it's a terrific piece of equipment. I don't leave home without it. Seriously...
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