Looking for recommendations on a minimal GPS watch that provides a "lap pace" down to the second.
I've used the Garmin Forerunner 45 for a few years, and it fits my wants/needs in a watch, except for the "lap pace". It reads in 5 second intervals only.
Despite my best efforts from reading reviews, I cannot tell if say the Forerunner 55 provides "lap pace" down to the second.
If you need that much precision from a GPS watch, I've got bad news for you. Some watch may provide that lap pace estimate down to the second, but consumer GPS watches will always have a margin of error of a few seconds in either direction. Significant figures, error propagation, blah blah blah
A human designed product, built by a machine, swinging on an arm, attached to a human body traveling down a road, track, or trail, on a sphere floating in space, which is spinning at approximately 1,000mph, bouncing a signal to, hopefully more than 3 of, the over 30 (man-made) satellites which are a minimum of 6,000 miles above Earth, only to be bounced back down, through the 'dirty' atmosphere, to the said swinging device on the human, whose position changed, vertically and horizontally (including the distance of the product to the ground surface) since the signal went up... is not accurate.
Yes. I have little doubt that such a watch would actually be accurate to the second, but I have found the Forerunner 45 to be extremely consistent, which is just as if not more important to me, in training. Just curious about what is out there.
I have a garmin 645 and the lap pace is down to the second. It may not be accurate to the second (gps error tends to be +/- 1%) but it reports it that way, ie, "mile 1, 6:47." So did my 225.
Are you saying yours will only report either 6:40, 6:45 or 6:50? If so, I've had several Garmins and they never did this.
Yes. The Forerunner 45 will always round "lap pace" up to the nearest 5 seconds. So if one is running 6:01 per mile pace, the "lap pace" will read 6:05.
FWIW, there's an app that will verbally announce your pace over the previous lap. I set it for quarter miles and every quarter mile, it would tell me my cumulative pace and my pace over the last quarter mile.
It was one of the major apps... Running Ahead? It's been several years and I can't remember. There are probably more apps that will do it now.
Garmin 945. I pair it with the Garmin HRM Pro, and Jabra earbuds. I have it report (voice) to me my Lap (set at each 1 mile), current HR and Average Pace every mile. Working it with TrainingPeaks' structured plans, it also voices to me the changes in workout stages (warmup, run, recover, cool down, etc. - whatever I tell it to report to me.