Garmin - love it - how about you? (Read 1894 times)

I love my Garmin! What do you think about it? Do you think it takes the fun away from running or does it get you jazzed up to improve? Run Happy, Lora Added 11/3 What does everyone think about the nikeplus?

I'm new to mine. I'm still undecided. I like being able to verify splits and keep more accurate track of my pace during a run. I love it for interval and tempo work. However, most of my runs are in fairly wooded areas, and signal drops quite often. That makes it less effective as both a distance and pace tool. It often disagrees with measured route distances by enough distance to throw off times, which makes me question which calculations I should use. I think I will use it on my open runs, but when I am down along the river, in the trees, I will leave it at home and just use the trusty old G-Shock stopwatch.

I'm new to mine. I'm still undecided. I like being able to verify splits and keep more accurate track of my pace during a run. I love it for interval and tempo work. However, most of my runs are in fairly wooded areas, and signal drops quite often. That makes it less effective as both a distance and pace tool. It often disagrees with measured route distances by enough distance to throw off times, which makes me question which calculations I should use. I think I will use it on my open runs, but when I am down along the river, in the trees, I will leave it at home and just use the trusty old G-Shock stopwatch.

I was had the same issue on my trail run the first time when I forgot to move my foot pod to my trail shoes. I use the footpod anyway for turnover but it works perfectly if I lose signal. I think it uses the GPS and then reverts to the footpod when the gps drops or something.

This seems like a definite GETM?

This seems like a definite GETM?

What's a GETM?

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My Garmin saves me alot of gas since I do not have to get in my car and re-drive the route to see how far I ran. Love it!

I have both. I would like to run them both over with my car, more so the nikeplus because it is not very accurate, but it was free. I'm anal about numbers so it enables me to log lots of useless stuff. I often think that if I just ran HARD on my hard days and ran very EASY on my recovery days that I would not need a silly watch and may actually train better with this method.