I also found that where I live mostly story apartment buildings , the RT2 look longer to get a satellite signal than my Garmin FR10 regardless of if it was the same location from a previous run. These things combined, I returned the RT2 and probably will get either a Garmin or After 1 dropping the repeatedly due to the pin falling out, 2 growing frustrated trying to upload new firmware, 3 growing tired of how long it took to acquire satellites and 4 having the watch totallynfail on me repeatedly, including during a half Mary, I ave it back to REI a benefit of membership and traded up to the Suunto Ambit 2.
It is, however, more expensive. Certified 5k courses show around 5. Track measurement is hopeless all GPS devices? Km splits is more useful for monitoring pace. My main concern with the Timex would be memory capacity. Yes, the memory capacity is an issue and seems like such a silly thing to overlook by Timex. Sent from my iPad. It was not exactly a tough work to improve Run Trainer 1. Memory capacity is something Timex definitely needs to work.
I do wish it offered interval groups. For example, 4 repeats of intervals one and two, which we can call group one, followed by two repeats of intervals three and four. Group two As there are many workout programs that break up their workouts in this manner, this would be a very helpful feature. I cant connect my timex run trainer 2. It charge but cant access the files.
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Units — allows you to switch between miles and km, MPH vs. KPH, etc. Other configurable options include the ability to set pace and HR zones, nutrition alerts, an alarm, and an option to switch the screen from a traditional black on gray to gray on black: Performance When it comes to a GPS watch, the real test is how well it performs during a workout.
Pros- 1. Cons- 1. Pace — real-time pace seems less reliable to me on the Run Trainer 2. Comments Simon Taylor says:. September 13, at am.
John Chen says:. Surfing Vol says:. Pete, After 1 dropping the repeatedly due to the pin falling out, 2 growing frustrated trying to upload new firmware, 3 growing tired of how long it took to acquire satellites and 4 having the watch totallynfail on me repeatedly, including during a half Mary, I ave it back to REI a benefit of membership and traded up to the Suunto Ambit 2. If you have a birthday coming up, you should look in to one. Pete Larson says:. Goals: Goals are simply like alerts, but for a given objective.
In this case, you can configure goals for distance and altitude total. Units: This is where you can play flip-flop with wanting to be British or American…all day long. The Global setting does it all in one shot Metric or Imperial — but you can also just individually choose which settings are which. User: This is where you set information about yourself — primarily used for caloric calculations:. Recording: This enables you to change recording rate interval.
You can set it to record at a 1, 2, 4, or 8 seconds. This includes a total odometer, configuration options for hourly chimes and button beeping, zone audible or visual alarms, and whether or not to synchronize time from GPS. Smoothing: Last but not least is the smoothing options, which aims to reduce some of the GPS jumpiness that some folks see when they use a GPS device.
Essentially, this makes the paces a bit more smooth as opposed to jumping around. You can specify to enable altitude, pace and speed smoothing, individually. If you run in the city a lot, you may find yourself stopping and starting at stoplights waiting for traffic.
In some of those cases you may neglect to resume your watch once you start running again — leaving a data gap in your recorded activity until you realize your mistake and resume again.
Hands Free Split on the other hand will automatically create laps on a predetermined time or distance parameter. The Timex Run Trainer allows you to customize zones eight ways to Sunday. These zones can then be applied to the different watch modes. As noted above, these zones can then be configured within an activity to alert you if you stray outside of a given zone.
As one who constantly forgets to eat or drink especially during longer races — this is a great way to have the watch do the reminding for you. You can setup a repeating Drink alarm, and a repeating Eat alarm — both based on time minutes and both operating independently of each other. This makes it dead simple:. They had learned many of the lessons from the initial Timex Global Trainer accuracy problems, and were fully committed to really nailing satellite accuracy.
And — I believe them. For example, on a 15 mile interval run I did, the two units came with. Pretty solid. There is one important item to note only because I found this out the hard way. In such a case, it may produce incorrect fast or slow speeds. Unfortunately, the Timex Run Trainer uses their Indiglo backlight, which is painfully not bright.
I realize it may have been cutting edge in , but not today…19 years later. On the bight side no pun intended — with a long exposure setting on a camera it does show up pretty bright:.
The Timex Run Trainer can easily be used as a day to day watch. Additionally, you can configure a bucket-load of different alarms in a lot of different ways.
Be it daily, day-specific or otherwise — this has you covered:. In fact, you can pretty much customize the entire watch to just be a cycling watch if you wanted to. While cycling the unit can be worn on your wrist, or you can pickup one of the many different handlebar bike mounts out there.
Note for triathletes that in order to switch between running and cycling you will need to stop the current activity i. I easily swam my regular workout a few different nights with the Timex Run Trainer, without any problems:. But it does work just fine at gathering distance in your swim cap did that recently. No issues there. Both are free of course. In addition to downloading your workouts, the TrainingPeaks TP or Timex device agent will also allow you to configure every setting on the Timex Trainer Trainer.
Pretty cool. And finally, it should be noted that this is where you can update the Timex Run Trainer firmware as new versions come out note, because you can backup settings, no settings are really lost :. Instead of developing its own platform, Timex selected to leverage the TrainingPeaks web based training platform instead. By folks focusing efforts and resources on a few sites we tend as consumers to see better integration and more features.
And TrainingPeaks is a great example of that. A one stop shop. As for myself, I use Training Peaks every day. In addition to the basic summary information, you can dive into the Map and Graph mode, which shows you were exactly you went, and a graph of your workout:. In addition to data displayed about a given workout, I can also display metrics like sleep, weight and even food logging. I can do all of this from within the calendar view.
As a platform, TrainingPeaks offers endless customization and pretty much anything the advanced athlete could ask for. But unfortunately few services accept such files at this time. This strap is softer than previous classic edition ones — which makes it a bit more comfortable:.
You can either buy this as an accessory, or just directly in the Timex Run Trainer package. Also, Polar straps are not compatible in any way, shape, or form. The battery life on the footpod exceeds one-year, and can be easily swapped out with a CR coin cell battery. The footpod can be configured via the watch menu system, or if you already know your footpod calibration value — you can enter that manually via the software:.
The Timex Run Trainer as a product has really surprised me with the sheer quantity of features packed in. From a runners standpoint the unit has basically everything one could ask for. The only area where it lags slightly behind some of its competitors is the backlight. So significant progress was made in that area. Cons — Backlight is too dim — Unit storage could be more about 10h at 1s recording — User interface is much improved, but could use a bit more polish.
Hopefully you found this review useful. You can pickup the Timex Run Trainer 1. By doing so, you not only support the site and all the work I do here — but you also get a sweet discount. Timex Run Trainer 1. Additionally, you can also use Amazon to purchase the unit though, no discount. I also had to look around to find the right software to download onto my computer. The program you need is called Device Agent, and I actually needed to download an update as well, to upgrade the software for my watch.
Working with the software didn't come naturally to me, probably because of its old-fashioned design. While doing a simple task, such as transferring the data from my first workout from the watch over to my computer, I encountered several alerts and error messages. I was a bit disappointed that all that didn't just happen automatically. These glitches could be especially annoying because after every 15 workouts, you have to transfer the data from your workouts over to your computer, in order to free up space on the watch.
Device Agent then syncs with an online training site, such as TrainingPeaks,and sends your saved workouts there. I found the site much more user-friendly and easier to navigate than the software. Generally, the information provided in the quick-start guide was enough to get the watch going, especially if you have experience with other similar devices. But if you want to use all the features and don't have patience for trial and error, it's best to study the detailed online user manual first. For athletes in training, a GPS-enabled device will provide more precise measurements than a regular activity monitor that uses accelerometers to track movements.
When I was training outdoors, the Run Trainer didn't have any trouble connecting to the satellite. You can't use the GPS if you train indoors, but the watch can wirelessly connect to a Foot Pod Sensor sold separately to track your speed, distance and other data points. The Run Trainer lets users time workouts or train in intervals, and provides a lot of data that can be invaluable for training, including split and lap time; pace; cadence the number of strides per minute ; speed; distance; and heart rate if you're using a Timex heart-rate monitor.
The watch has three screens that show your workout data in real time, and each screen has two or three fields.
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