Basing your purchase on these personalised specifics will help you choose one that you’ll enjoy using. For a flat 5k this doesn’t make a difference, but you can imagine courses beginning with large climbs for example, and it would be disheartening to feel like you can’t catch up. it’s one of the most expensive trackers on our list, though that amount is comparable to other GPS-enabled fitness bands. It’s a device for serious training: it measures heart rate and all of your movement, and the LED display can be customised to your liking. The change from plastic to a rubber strap, however, does mean it’s the most comfortable to wear to bed and can get a little sweaty.

I think you need a map based solution to do what you want or something which offers straight-route navigating to a specific point/POI/start. Before you head out with the Runner, you'll need to sync it up with the TomTom MySports Connect program and fill out your personal profile.The Graphical Training Partner, accessed by hitting the down button on the GPS calibration screen, will likely be the most-used feature of the watch, offering up four different modes: Zone, Race, Goal and Laps.

I assume they mean the “snail trail” page zoomed out to what you ran so far, when you’re a long distance from the starting point it will be very hard to estimate the direction you need to run and you will be doing a lot of extra miles…. The Runner has a sleeker feel to a lot of rivals on the market, and feels mostly unobtrusive on the wrist. There is no map for it to follow to workout the SHORTEST REAL route, just a line (that line might COME from a map, externally) but the T3 only has a line/breadcrumb and a compass. Really most of you will only want to either pair to the MySports smartphone app or link to MySports on your computer (www. So, when I say the quality is awesome I mean the non-TomTom bits that I used were awesome (including their headphones).

If you think there’s benefits to training by heart rate but just hate chest straps then you’ll be excited by the good oHRM in the TomTom Runner 3/Spark 3. From TomTom: “So finding your way back to start involves either retracing your snail trail, or else using the graphic of current heading and current position relative to start point to find it as the crow flies. Consequently, it’s now more of a sports watch in look and feel than its predecessor, which is a small backward step. Use the corresponding TomTom MySports app to give you a complete picture of your training so you can run your best time at your next race. There’s now a new stopwatch option, which should come in useful if you are working on sprint training for example and should have really been something included in the first place.

It’s best if you wear it on your wrist or your ankle (rather than around your neck or in your pocket), and it’s a good solution for indoor runners. As with other optical heart rate monitors, if you have not yet warmed up enough, or it’s too cold and your body is keeping the blood away from the surface, or it’s not tight enough on the wrist, it will display your steps per minute(when running) instead.As well as these daily features, it will monitor your activity while sleeping and count the number of hours you sleep. The nature of sport watches is that many of them evolve over time via firmware updates and changes to the accompanying mobile apps and web apps. If you’re using a fitness tracker for running, there’s one very important feature that you want: built in GPS for the most accurate distance data. Coming in at number seven is this fitness tracker and smartwatch hybrid from one of the biggest names in the tech game.