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Cheated on Suunto…

Watches

Already wrote before that I have upgraded my external heart rate monitor to Polar one. And I would treat the as kind of moving away form Suunto towards another bigger player on running devices market. Previous monitor was from Scotsche. Independent company which producing almost just heart monitors. So, moving to Polar was a big deal already. And now that… Fenix 6 Pro from Garmin. This is a big change. For me and for my pocket 😂 Actually for my Wife’s pocket as this was very early Christmas present. Read more

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I needed a new one cause I have an old one…

Polar Verisy

The new – Polar Verity Sense, heart monitor. The old – Suunto Ambit Peak 3, multisport watch. I have this watch for ages now. Even when I wasn’t running it was on my wrist. Like it so much cause battery lasts for days. Few years back, running Connemara 100, and still battery level was there on 40% and that was over 18 hours. So, haven’t changed this watch. Disadvantage of this is: there is no webapp to access your runs (Suunto discontinued Movescount), mobile app is not easy and you can’t get all needed details. Yes, you can sync this with Strava but need premium to get all stats… So, maybe time for new watch? Neh, not now. But most annoying thing about this watch, one which I had to address from the beginning was lack of build in heart rate monitor… Read more

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TomTom Cardio – running watch

As a runners all of you probably know that on some stage of running, jogging you will need a GPS watch to be able log all details about your runs…

I know that most of runners prefer Garmins but I decided to give TomTom a chance. I’m their fun when it comes to car GPS so for me that was natural choice. I know that first TomTom Nike watch was terrible but… didn’t want to say no straight away. After reading review of DC Rainmaker (best guy regards running / triathlon gadgets) I decided to try – http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/07/tomtom-runner-multisport.html. Another thing was the price. TomTom costs about 2/3 of Garmin watch (similar specs). Still I have use eBay to buy it. Just after couple of runs I knew that it was on of the best buys I ever made. Next on the list was heart rate monitor (as well on the first picture). TomTom is working on the Bluetooth not ANT sensor which makes finding additional accessories a little bit harder. But have found Polar chest strap Bluetooth HRM (recommended on TomTom website) and haven’t looked back since then. Together watch and HRM working like a charm… So much information you can get. For me there is one drawback with that watch was battery life. According to specs battery should last about 4 hours on GPS without HRM, which means that when you are little bit slow runner (for example marathon in over 4 hours) it won’t last (even without HRM not connected).

So was thinking that I should try something different before my first marathon run in Cork. Again didn’t want to buy watch with same specs with just maybe better battery life and then have seen DC Rainmaker review about another TomTom watch – http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/04/tomtom-cardio.html. This time, not only battery is better but also it has HRM build in. And that is great news, no more straps on the chest. Cause watch is using exactly same system it was really easy to know your way around. Haven’t run with it yet, so will write little bit more later. For now I know that wrist belt is little bit nicer and cause of that watch is sitting on your wrist better.

More to follow…