Garmin 410 vs 610 vs nike+sportswatch

Garmin 305 is safest best and hands down the best bang for the buck. I had a FR610 which was nice until the unit decided to no longer charge and I am currently awaiting a new one. The 610 is pretty nice but has a lot of firmware glitches that will hopefully be straitened out soon. Unless appearance is a big deal for you, the 305 is a really good choice. Don't even think about the 410.

Oh wow, i didn't check that one out thx. Looks to be the best bang for the buck but does anyone have experience with the nike watch?

The Nike watch is ok unless you care about lap splits. You take splits by tapping the watch. Bump the watch and you take a split. High five a friend and you take a split. Scratch your head too hard and you take a split. The new 610 will be awesome once they release the next firmware to fix the problem with pace getting jacked up when you stop/start.

Runner in need of advice wrote:

Oh wow, i didn't check that one out thx. Looks to be the best bang for the buck but does anyone have experience with the nike watch?

Been in the nike sportswatch for about 2 months now. Rocks. Will track you anywhere, just like garmin. Plug it into your USB port on any computer and log in to Nike+ and it has an awesome new Beta Maps that tracks your pace change along your run. Elevation included.

Laps can be set per mile, so NO need for tapping. Takes a few runs to get used to the differences between it and the Garmin. But if you're starting new, try it the Nike watch. Its online website rocks.

Turbo wrote:

Garmin 305 is safest best and hands down the best bang for the buck. I had a FR610 which was nice until the unit decided to no longer charge and I am currently awaiting a new one. The 610 is pretty nice but has a lot of firmware glitches that will hopefully be straitened out soon. Unless appearance is a big deal for you, the 305 is a really good choice. Don't even think about the 410.

Are you serious?! I like the Garmin forerunner 405 (it's the 410 but without the heart rate monitor) more than any other running watch I've had. I've had the forerunner 310xt which is very comparable in size to the 305 and it was like the size of a block. The 405 has never failed me even running through woods while under trees and even in downtown Chicago when I was there with my friends running through downtown/along Lake Michigan. The 405 is small enough to even be worn as just an everyday watch if need be. My friend has the 305 and has numerous problems getting a signal in the middle of a run when in the woods and sometimes even just in the middle of our town. If you want a non-reliable, giant computer on your wrist, go with the 305. If you want a reliable, accurate, and compact running watch to track your miles, then go with the forerunner 405 bro(or 410 if you want the heart rate monitor to wrap around your chest).

I will say that I have never tried the nike sportwatch though. It looks to be even more compact than my 405 but I still would go with Garmin because,well, it's GARMIN!

(I run 60-70miles per week and start my collegiate running career in the fall. Run mostly through my hometown and woods outside of my town with lots of trees.)

i have 405 and i love it. but they just updated the 610 and i've heard good things about tht too. i would go with the 405 because functionally there's not a great deal of difference, but you can probably get the 405 for a lot less.[quote]JGP wrote:

This is fine as long as your laps are 1 mile. Just don't use it during a track workout and try to take splits or record splits at mile markers in a race.

nikewatchwearer wrote:

Been in the nike sportswatch for about 2 months now. Rocks. Will track you anywhere, just like garmin. Plug it into your USB port on any computer and log in to Nike+ and it has an awesome new Beta Maps that tracks your pace change along your run. Elevation included.

Laps can be set per mile, so NO need for tapping. Takes a few runs to get used to the differences between it and the Garmin. But if you're starting new, try it the Nike watch. Its online website rocks.

I use the Garmin 405. It works great. Much smaller than my friend's 305 Dick Tracy unit. Can actually wear it in street clothes and most likely nobody will notice. The bezel thingy takes about a day to get used to, then its fine. Check out all the youtube videos by Garmin on doing different things with it. They are more instructional than manual.

I have had the 610 for a few weeks now. I updated the firmware when I got it. It has yet to do anything wacky. The touch screen works really well. The lap split recall is pretty slick. It also keeps track of mile/week on the watch. That is something the 310 didn't do. The 310 also wouldn't let you have 4 displays with one being HH:MM:SS. It would drop the seconds over 1 hr. The 610 will do that. It even seems to acquire the satellites more quickly. I can't compare to the 405/410 because I didn't like it and got the 310 instead. I tried the Nike and hated it. Maybe I just wasn't used to it, but I was able to use the 610 with no trouble at all.

nikewatchwearer wrote:

Been in the nike sportswatch for about 2 months now. Rocks. Will track you anywhere, just like garmin. Plug it into your USB port on any computer and log in to Nike+ and it has an awesome new Beta Maps that tracks your pace change along your run. Elevation included.

Laps can be set per mile, so NO need for tapping. Takes a few runs to get used to the differences between it and the Garmin. But if you're starting new, try it the Nike watch. Its online website rocks.

Thank you Nike employee