How To Get The Most From Your GPS Running Watch
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
GPS watches are an essential tool in the toolkit of runners everywhere.
But have you ever stopped to consider whether you understand the ins and outs of the technology at your disposal? Have you ever wondered about the utility of watch metrics like running dynamics, performance condition, or intensity minutes? Do you ever feel like you may have too many features and too much data to wade through?
Here to help us understand how to get the most out of cutting edge GPS watches for our training, racing, and overall wellness is Joe Heikes, a Product Manager at Garmin.
Specifically, we discuss:
- how to organize and make sense of all the features a GPS watch has to offer
- the basic and advanced metrics you can reliably track on your GPS watch
- tips and tricks for using GPS watches and getting the most out of features like training readiness
- the features and benefits that differentiate Garmin GPS watches from the rest of the market
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Heikas, and welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, fellow runners. I'm your host Finn Milanson and this is the run to the top |
| 0:18.6 | podcast the podcast dedicated to making you a better runner with each and every |
| 0:24.3 | episode. We are created and produced by the expert team of coaches at runners connect |
| 0:29.0 | net where you can find the best running information on the internet, |
| 0:33.0 | as well as training plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:37.0 | GPS watches are an essential tool in the toolkit of runners everywhere. |
| 0:46.2 | But have you ever stopped to consider whether you understand the ins and outs of the technology |
| 0:51.1 | at your disposal? |
| 0:52.1 | Have you ever wondered about the utility of watch metrics, |
| 0:55.2 | like running dynamics, performance condition, or intensity minutes? |
| 0:59.1 | Do you ever feel like you may have too many features and too much data to wade through. |
| 1:03.6 | Here to help us understand how to get the most out of cutting edge |
| 1:07.9 | GPS watches for our training, racing, and overall wellness |
| 1:11.9 | is Joe Heikis a product manager at |
| 1:13.9 | Garman. Specifically we discuss how to organize and make sense of all the features |
| 1:19.1 | a GPS watch has to offer the basic and advanced metrics you can reliably track on your GPS watch. |
| 1:25.1 | Tips and tricks for using GPS watches and getting the most out of features like |
| 1:30.0 | training readiness and the features and benefits that differentiate |
| 1:34.4 | Garmin GPS watches from the rest of the market among many other discussion points. It's no secret. |
| 1:45.0 | no secret. |
| 1:46.0 | Garman's been in the running Smartwatch game for a long time. |
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