COROS

PACE 3 GPS Sport Watch

COROS PACE 3 GPS Sport Watch

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TL;DR: Budget king, long battery, light, but HR and metrics are off.

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Sentiment score82% positive
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Last updated: Jun 16, 2026

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Reddit Icon0x49D1
4 months ago

Same reason + price increases and EOL of previous models as soon as new one comes out: migrated from Fenix 7s Solar to Coros Pace 3. Actually everything is fine, the only annoying thing is the device design itself: after Fenix - Coros looks sporty and cheap. But this is not their fault: I just wanted to try the cheapest model they had, so nothing really stops from upgrading premium-to-premium: I should have chosend Apex 4 :) About lots of training data: yes and no; it's sometimes motivating to recheck your data from several years ago, but how often do you REALLY do that? In 1 month your watch in other ecosystem will also collect the data and you will have the current condition as a starting point. By the way for example Coros has the importing option, so you can just import all the HR and other data from Garmin. But from my experience - better just start fresh, the data will be more proper (probably there are some missing parameters..).

Reddit Icon12chihuahuasyapping
7 months ago

Coros pace 3, super solid and probably on sale with the pace 4 coming out.

Reddit IconActual-Jackfruit-991
9 months ago

coros pace 3 has always gotten me at about 26.4 miles for a marathon, which isn't too far off, and I just look at the elapsed time versus the course markers to predict when I'll finish

Reddit IconAggravating_Hat3955
11 months ago

Coros Pace 2 or Pace 3. Very satisfied with this watch

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Reddit IconAgitated-Draw-8276
4 months ago

I love my coros, I still just use the pace 3. Super competitively priced and the app is miles better than anything else I’ve used

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