Garmin Forerunner 210 GPS Watch – Get Real-Time Speed, Distance, and Intervals In The Simplest GPS Ever
Right out of the gate consumers are going to want to know what is different, or better, about the Garmin Forerunner 210 GPS watch than the Garmin Foreunner 110. There
are two answers, first, foot pod compatibility for indoor training in the winter so you can measure speed and distance. Second, the Forerunner 210 actually has built-in
interval training so it is more suitable to slightly more serious runners. These two additions make the Garmin Forerunner 210 a good choice and those options add $50 to
the price tag over the 110.
The killer part about the new Garmin Forerunner 210 is just how easy
they are to use. Unlike previous models of years gone by, you don’t need a PHD in GPS watch programming. Just acquire satellites and push start and you are off.
There are two versions of the Forerunner 210 and the first has a premium chest strap and a USB data transfer. The second version, called the club version features
Garmin’s premium soft chest strap and adds a footpod for winter use for an extra $50. If you run indoors, or like comfy straps, it is a good investment.
Of course if you want the Virtual Partner training feature, course, auto pause, and pace alerts you really need to move up to the Garmin Forerunner 410, which we would
classify as appropriate for those serious about their training. Of course the Garmin Forerunner 210 still allows you to download maps of your runs to Map My Run, Map
My Ride, or Google Earth, so it does assemble a very definitive bread crumb trail of where you have been.
One customer called to tell us that he could tell what side of the street and which sidewalk he was running on, which is pretty darn cool.
You’ll get about 7 hours of battery life in full GPS mode in our estimation, however for regular workouts with merely heart rate, you can operate the watch in regular
mode and it doesn’t require much battery at all. GPS signal eats up a lot of battery, but thankfully this is rechargeable so no more trips to the drug store to buy
disposables – this is a “green” GPS watch.
Unlike the Forerunner 410, the Forerunner 210 is not compatible with
bike cadence sensors which makes the watch more suitable to pure runners, although you can get speed, distance and heart rate data while cycling so it is still pretty
useful, just not the cadence. You can also download and read all of your data to Garmin Connect to assess and compare routes and workouts with other community users.
The new GPS SIRF 4 chipsets are tack sharp on signal and do well around tall buildings and in the deep trees, much more so than earlier versions of the technology.
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