Can You Trust Your Running Watch?
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
How much do you rely on the data from your running watch? Do you analyze all the data it gives you after every run?
In this Run to the Top episode, we're going to take an in-depth look at how much you should trust this data and how you can most effectively use it in all training situations.
In this episode, you'll learn…
- some of the great features that make your watch more useful
- how to use it more effectively in workouts and on the treadmill, and
- how much to trust all those fancy assumptions and predictions your watch is telling you.
Whether you're a running data geek or you barely know how to use your running watch, this episode will definitely give you some practical training tips.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there my running friend this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner, and this is the |
| 0:15.2 | Run To the Top Podcast, one of the first and only running podcast dedicated to making |
| 0:20.1 | you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 0:23.5 | We are created and produced by the expert team of running coaches at runnersconnect.net, |
| 0:29.3 | where you can find the best running information on the internet, as well as running coaching plans to |
| 0:34.4 | fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:37.0 | I would bet most runners consider their running watch just as essential to their |
| 0:46.1 | training as their shoes. Sure there are plenty of people that couldn't care less about |
| 0:50.8 | recording, analyzing, or, |
| 0:52.8 | God forbid, sharing their runs with other people on an app. |
| 0:56.3 | For them, running is not about data or distance |
| 0:59.6 | or anything that can be reduced to zeros and ones on a screen. But this episode is not for them. |
| 1:09.7 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast, I'm going to take a look at your running watch. |
| 1:14.3 | We'll explore some of the great features that make your watch more useful, how to use it more effectively |
| 1:19.5 | in workouts and on the treadmill, and how much to trust all those fancy assumptions and predictions your watch is |
| 1:26.8 | telling you. I'll be mostly using Garmin as an example since that's what I own and |
| 1:32.0 | what the majority of runners use but this is |
| 1:34.3 | applicable to any watch that is meant for running. And later on in the |
| 1:41.6 | episode I'll reveal this week's secret code word that unlocks free |
| 1:46.5 | runners connect goodies and prizes. So be sure to listen up for that. |
| 1:58.0 | Before we get started, if you're running a spring half, full or ultra, now is the time to start putting together your fueling plan. |
| 2:01.0 | To help you out, we are giving you free access to our revolutionary glycogen |
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