COROS - PACE 4

I’ve had and loved garmin forerunners and a coros pace. Slight preference for coros over garmin for battery life. Slight preference for garmin for multi-app interoperability.  I’m actually planning to buy an Apple Watch because it’s fine as a fitness tracker and has better health tracking capabilities on top of the fitness stuff. 

I use Form Goggles or a Coros pace watch. The Coros track well and can do structured workouts. And having access to my distance, pace, heart rate, and workout time available is really cool

For me I use Training Peaks for collecting all my data. I have a coros pace watch for tracking strength workouts, running, and open water swims. I have a garmin for riding the bike out side. On the bike I have a garmin cadence and speed attachments. And for my peddles I have polar power meters. A Tac X Neo for training on the bike inside. Form goggles for tracking my pool swims. For structuring workouts I use Training peaks for a ATP (year plan). TrainerRoad for bike workouts, Form goggles for swimming workouts. And for the strength and running I enter them into the coros watch app. I’ve gotten the gear over time. If I had to start from scratch I would just use my Coros Pace 3 to track everything and pick up one thing at a time as I got the funds.

My apple watch series 8 lasts for a whole marathon without issues That said if you want much more battery life, coros pace should do it 

I like my Coros Pace. Fantastic battery life is a killer feature.

Runner? Get yourself a Coros Pace.

I like my Coros Pace

The Coros Pace. I’ve had the 2 for 3 years and the battery life is still amazing. The 3 is even better apparently. Great value watch. 

My Coros Pace works great. Most smartphones should do the job too.

Hi there, I use Coros. Like you, I wanted something that would just do running, no other bells and whistles. I wanted something with accurate GPS and good battery life. It has its own app and it also sends automatically to Strava. The price point is in the 200s USD for the Pace model, which is what I use. Their customer support was awesome a couple of years ago, but just this past month I had an issue and got lost in the maze of AI robots that everyone is using. Eventually a real person showed up, but not until after I had already bought a new watch, since my marathon training cannot afford to wait for AI robots lol. FWIW, despite that, the new watch I chose was the updated version of the Coros Pace, because I still really like it. Hope that helps!

I wear a coros pace on the opposite wrist, but only when I run or go for long walks. Though I do wear a normal wrist watch most days, on the opposite wrist of my whoop

Yeah! It works well for me for most occasions, and if I’m ever dressing up and don’t want my whoop showing I’ll opt to position it on my bicep or in my bra strap against my rib cage.

COROS Pace. Best bang for your buck. Battery life is outstanding, GPS is great, all the basic functions you need, easy interface, checks all the boxes.

Basically any modern smartwatch will do this. Your axes of choice are ecosystem, battery life, and price. The basic Apple Watch will do what you want, but because you’re using the GPS, the battery will be dead mid-day. I do not recommend any Apple Watch but the Ultra for an athlete or active person because of the awful battery life. If you want something cheaper than the Ultra, I’d look at the Coros Pace and cheaper Garmin Forerunner options. They’ll both cost about half and are really good products with roughly 5-10x battery life vs the basic Apple Watch.

I've used Coros watches for about 6 years now. First a Pace and now an Apex 2 Pro. They don't have all the functions of a smart watch, but if you're concerned with accurately tracking workouts, I'd go with a Coros or Garmin. Plus, my battery lasts at least a week.

I love my coros. Does what I need a runni g watch to do and lasts days on a single charge.

I would invest in a running watch. Either garmin or coros. Doesn’t have to be the top of the line ones either. Can even buy one used off eBay. You will get access to their free ecosystem which includes training plans or if you want to DIY you can build your own activities. I really am liking Coros after going Garmin to Apple to Coros. The training interface is very sleek.

You don't NEED it, but if you're saying you want every help you can get: running watches are a great help IMO. Garmin is great, they integrate into pretty much everything and are specialized running watches. Coros is a very similar setup, but more affordable. People also use their apple watches or other fitness trackers, but arguably those don't offer the same specialized support and specifically apple has much worse battery life than Garmin and Coros.

Garmin (or coros) make a better running watch. Apple makes a better smart watch. If your priority is to use it for running with some additional smart watch features, go Garmin or Coros. If your priority is using your watch as an extension of your phone, go Apple.