Comments on: Garmin brings back watch-face to mark 20 years of Forerunners

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:26:25 +0000

One of the pre-Garmin originals was ahead of it’s time. The FitSense with foot pod. It was accurate within a few feet which was amazing given it wasn’t GPS and based distance off foot strikes. You could calibrate it on a track and adjust the calculation to perfect accuracy. I still love my Garmin Descent though, I never leave home without it…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:12:36 +0000

This was a nice trip down memory lane, although I was disappointed the article didn’t really show many examples from the history of Forerunner devices (like wikipedia has here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin_Forerunner). Myself, I’ve owned devices spanning much of this history, including the 201, 305, 310XT, Vivoactive HR, and 935. I’ve gotten about 4 years of good use out of each. That means it’s about time to sunset my 935, whose battery used to last 2 weeks but now barely lasts 2 days. I’m debating whether to get the 945 LTE or wait for the 955. Speaking of the 945 LTE, the author left that off the list in this article. It’s effectively what we were expecting the 955 to be, but Garmin decided not to name it that.

By: DOC

DOC — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 08:07:32 +0000

Awesome evolution of pace measuring devices

By: Paul Aloe

Paul Aloe — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:55:36 +0000

I had that first forerunnner. Have it somewhere still. It was an amazing device for its day

By: Hanan

Hanan — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:08:28 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152190124764443&set=a.10150318599839443&type=3

By: Marko Maslakovic

Marko Maslakovic — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:31:56 +0000

In reply to Dave West.

By: Dave West

Dave West — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:06:43 +0000

Shame no picture of the 305 which was more watch-like albeit it sort of wrapped around your wrist. Unless you had a very small wrist, you didn’t really notice it when you were running. I still miss the stop start button on the front which is much easier than trying to remember which of the 5 side buttons on my Fenix to press when you’re tired at the end of a race!