When I deleted the history on the the syncing worked. But as soon as I registered an activity on the , the syncing failed. How come you do not have this problem? I really want to use the again but only if I can figure out how to get it to syncronize with Garmin Connect.
Yes, I managed to sync my Forerunner with Garmin Connect. Neither did it work on my Windows 10 PC. Now my wife can use it……. I posted this photo of my and my Venu three months ago to Reddit! A nice throwback with a user plugging his with Sporttracks. Such a throwback! Next up was a , which was also pretty good. Had one big drawback though, which was the fact that it took forever to find GPS signals.
Battery life sucked, the optical HR was in its infancy, and the whole thing was kinda unintuitive. Got a Polar V from a sponsoring deal after that. Not good, not terrible. I felt it was pretty heavy, it could to structured workouts and such, but never really caught my fancy.
Again, not terrible, but also not good. Then there is the battery life. I really hate the always-on approach. With my first watches I could turn them off after my workouts, throw them in a drawer and forget about them. When I wanted to run again, after a week or a month, I could just power them back up and boom, they were ready to go.
Totally sucks! So now I need a new watch. Lightweight and decent battery life would be a plus. How nice; an ode to an old friend. I still own the FR that helped me train for my first marathon.
I still love it. When I switched to the fr I was really disappointed with its features. I found the watch to be very accurate and I managed to squeeze 14 hours of GPS in one go. Its a watch that leaves you with a smile on your face, like an old VW beetle. In fact i do have a frxt, donated again to me, but that just gets the odd outing now and again. I am still using my Garmin now!. The first ones battery died 2 years ago. I am very attached to mine — 5. I was totally asymptomatic except for a very high HR.
Typically resting. I could not tell. The only indication was a funny fluttery feeling in my neck that only lasted for a few seconds when the AFib kicked in as I later learned. But the Garmin picked up that high HR that stayed with me all night. The Garmin was going in the bin, and I was going to work but my wife rang rang the Heath Service advice line who sent an ambulance!
Not sure if modern wrist monitors would pick up the very irregular pulse, but the may well have saved me from a stroke! I misplaced my and so dug out the Tried several different USB leads and also different cradles but no luck. Resorted to cleaning the contacts but still no luck. Not sure what has happened since when I last downloaded from it! Hey, if you think that download is flakey, who else remembers the Polar audio or IR dowloads. The audio one emitted some ultrasonic squeaks that you could hold near to a microphone on your PC, and the IR had some claw like thing that worked OK.
I remember doing my imagic races in the shed on an airgapped computer, then bringing the ghost recording back in, and emailing that onto the imagic league server whilst I downloaded the HR into polar using the infra-red and then emailing the whole lot to my coach no Training Peaks cloud back then. Love it! The was my first running watch as well. I have to say I loved the more, for 2 reasons: — The could be charged during a long race and not only did it continue to record, it continued to display the values.
Sure, charging with the cradle was a bit cumbersome during the run, but the same is true for the XT. I often did hill repeats with 12 or 20 meters elevation gain. No, there has not been a 3 watch so far, still using the XT. I had the and at the time it was awesome. Definitely big on the wrist! I used the big band for it and wore it with a sweatband underneath it, I think there was some issue with the charge contacts getting corroded and that was a solution.
Prior to that I was using the gmaps pedometer site to get an estimate. The was and still is the key to many succesful canoe marathons where you have to navigate your way through a labyrinth of lakes. I remember this FR its was very good and besides that I then also ran pretty much faster in all distance there are tre things that I truly mis from the FR into later models.
When you where finish with lets say a 10 K run. You could recall your run in the history and see every each 1 km lap summed up, so you could the the added lap time after 1 km, the the summed up time after 2 km, 3 km, 4 km and so on. They put so much crap into the moden models like musik, sms, and so on…I really dont need more data and the better funktionality that came with the watches after FR.
Great article. Currenlty using a Works perfect. Just stumbled over this article and it made me pull out mine from the drawer — it still works after all these years! I remember that I wanted to track running speed and distance for years but the only device that could do so was the Polar X with foot pods which costed an arm and a leg so I stayed with my S I was running day in, day out with a until twelve days ago, when I finally bought a Your nostalgia for the validates my regret at leaving it behind when I go out for a run.
Also still using mine — had it since at least , and still going strong. I had the Loved it. Easy to replace the battery; battery was inexpensive. Loved the way it looked — like a Dick Tracy wrist radio. I had the back in the day, and loved it. It works fine. Anyone know? Almost all the Garmins do now and PacePro is even more sophisticated as it will also provide a pace based on gradient.
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Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by! I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker swim, bike, run, and general gear list.
But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? Login Become a Member. Search for:. Skip to content. Tweet You can click here to Subscribe without commenting Your name: E-mail:. Add a picture. January 11, at pm 1. DC Rainmaker. January 11, at pm 2. January 11, at pm 3. Dan M. January 11, at pm 4. January 12, at am 5. I just there away the Nokia that did that a couple of months ago, i still have the though PS: No, the is not as accurate as we remember. Not bad tho.
January 12, at am 6. January 12, at am 7. I left my old i and x with the foot pod! I even had the arm mounted GPS unit. January 12, at pm 8. James Wood. May 31, at pm 9. January 11, at pm Still have fond memory reading having no idea about what is endurance sports anf just after reading your article I went to a best buy and bought this watch, I never stopped running and cycling since then Reply.
January 12, at am Barrie Gibson. Adrian B. Running With My Dog. January 12, at pm The Garmin Instinct? As with marklemcd above, I also got the to replace my timex speed and distance setup! Dan G. January 13, at pm Tim J. Patrick Wadsworth. Unfortunately, structured workout support is not working with Forerunner Reply.
Dan Morley. Joe Graczyk. Mine still fires up and is kept around just in case! Hmm…is that a challenge? Glad they kept iterating. January 14, at am January 15, at pm Got one too!!!
January 14, at pm Harry Oosterveen. Kyle Polansky. I still have my FR laying around as well! Loved the article and trip down memory lane! Duncan Tindall. Sadly my lasted less than 4 runs. My special type of sweat ate through the charge contacts. Hassan GZ. And Suunto wants me to ditch my beloved 4 years old Ambit3 Vertical for a newer watch!! What about a comparison between a first gen. Edge unit with the current models? Mark Z. Sooo Ray, since you are doing a trip down Forerunner Memory Lane..
With availability in early March? Dick Pluim. Wow, nice review and comparison. The FR was my first Garmin. Gary Bowen. I still have mine. Amazing the accuracy. Biggest plus for me was the big clear screen, Not so much with my eyesight with the fenix 6 LOL My only gripe before I stopped using it was I could rarely get it to connect to garmin express. They knew how to make the things in old days Reply. Tom S.
January 13, at am Good catch — I totally forgot about that feature! Sigh that it disappeared. Robert Niznik. Elliott Gruber. Steven Brumley. Pre-run my choices were often: -Start running and lose most of your first mile -Wander aimlessly for 10 minutes outside trying to get a signal -Turn the watch on near a window and hope there were no clouds Reply.
Very nice! Long Run Nick. Paul D. Liked your article-thanks Reply. OFF No offence meant and it is not about in fact I owned and used its successor XT for many many years , but this year CES seems to be something which should not have been organized at all. Rama Krishna. Lochlan Hughes. Doug Curtis. I have given it to a friend and it popped off his bike into the road, and would have survived again, had it not gotten run over by a car, before he could retrieve it Reply.
January 15, at am Any help would be most helpful. With regards Reply. January 27, at pm January 17, at am January 23, at pm January 24, at pm Wow, blast from the past indeed! January 24, at am January 27, at am To my good luck, Garmin Training Center popped up on the first page! Seemed familiar! Thats the age old software from Garmin that worked flawlessly! To do next, play, manipulate, visualize and hack together a fitness app!
Love my Garmin Forerunner Nice to have you back! Santosh writes here. Use Backcountry. Alternatively, for everything else on the planet, simply buy your goods from Amazon via the link below and I get a tiny bit back as an Amazon Associate.
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No problem, here's the platform I use - you can too! Think my written reviews are deep? You should check out my videos. I take things to a whole new level of interactive depth! Smart Trainers Buyers Guide: Looking at a smart trainer this winter?
I cover all the units to buy and avoid for the indoor training season. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I have built an extensive list of my most frequently asked questions. Below are the most popular. You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget.
Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned. Plus there are smart trainers here , all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by! I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products.
So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? Login Become a Member. Search for:. Skip to content. Instead, go download for free Sport Tracks 2. Do all split stuff in software later which is automagic with Sport Tracks. Remember to wipe the metal contacts on the back of your watch after you run.
Which will in turn cause other problems. If it gets really out of control, use an eraser to clean the contacts. Great for quick transitions. By time your shoes are tied up, the watch will be ready to go. And that will reduce the awkward standing around outside looking at your wrist dance that you do. If you want to swim with your Forerunner, go here. The good news is that in under two weeks, Garmin fixed it all up again. Garmin Customer Service rocks! You can change the data fields that are displayed on the watch.
For example, I changed my cycling one so that by default it displays four things: Cadence, Total Distance, Current Speed and Total Time — in four little quadrants. You can add any of the gazillion fields to make your own custom view. You can even save multiple views per sport. Running it all off ». You can click here to Subscribe without commenting Your name: E-mail:.
Add a picture. January 16, at am 1. January 16, at pm 2. That just overwhelmed me. January 16, at pm 3. January 17, at am 4. Brent Buckner. January 17, at pm 5.
Thanks for the tips! January 18, at pm 6. July 8, at pm 7. Bruce Jackson. November 16, at pm 8. Thanks, I had never thought of an eraser to clean the contacts. Worked great! February 15, at am 9. January 3, at am January 11, at am Is there any way to use it for a duathlon?
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