Which Runners Watch would you choose?

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  Martin Wilkinson 24th August 2017

  There is plenty of choice. You can use a phone but it is a pain to carry on a run. You ideally need a timer or stop watch which is standard, GPS, ability to load the run upto your computer or Strava so you can share with friends. You also need a watch that looks cool and you wear all the time so you are wearing it when you go for a run and not have to find it in a drawer etc. It needs to hhave a good battery life on and off GPS so you can use as a normal watch. A basic Garmin will do this for about £100 or less but perhaps not so cool. As you go up in price you add a heart monitor which allows you to train in the correct heart range for peak training, and what I like is the recovery advisor (on the more expensive ones!) which tells you if you have overtrained and how long to rest and VO2 max. They usually allow recording of running and cycling but you might want swimming as well?? Then you pay more if the heart rate monitor is within the watch ie via your wrist and not a chest strap and best of all and more expensive is wireless capablilty. Wireless means on returning how it automatically will upload to the internet. The Garmin 230 is perhaps the best buy at the moment but is £160-200 (which is a 1/3 of the price of an iPhone 7!) or the cheaper 220 - just check the features you want. I have the 620 which was £400 but the 220/230 has a few newer and useful features at £200 less. Mine lasts about 2 weeks without using GPS and about 14 hours of GPS usage (or so it says). Garmin SatNav pick up now super quick but you pay for this depending on the price, the 220/230 should be fine in this respect. Martin W

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