![]() ![]() Once it has locked on to your pulse, after you have warmed your body up enough for it to “see”, the heart rate monitor is very impressive. The device has 2 LEDs – red and green, but in the production version, only the green is fired up. After a tough race like a marathon, or if not 100% well (cold virus etc.), a higher resting heart rate will be a great indicator to take it easy. Looking on the website after a sync in the morning will give you a great indication of how well you are recovered. Whilst steps goal stuff isn’t really relevant for the more experienced runner / athlete, beginners and those with goals of just keeping moving enough during the day to kickstart some weight loss might find it very useful.įor the more experienced athlete, the heart rate over-night is a great feature. It will also monitor your heart rate throughout the day and night so you can track it. As well as these daily features, it will monitor your activity while sleeping and count the number of hours you sleep. Wooo! Choose from steps, calories, distance and time (or turn it off). Once you reach the goal each day, a little medal appears and it buzzes. I’ve been wearing it all night and day for 7 months, so it had to be good in this area. ![]() It is very comfortable and you won’t notice it after while. I managed to find a setting that works every time. edit: there are small straps available now.įinding the right tightness is important for the HRM feature. Snug is best but note that during activity, especially on cold days, your wrist will expand as you warm up, so an optimal setting at the start might be different after 10 minutes or so. My wrists are pretty small, but it still has a notch to go for people with even smaller wrists. Edit: If you plug a portable battery into it before starting an activity, you can charge and record at the same time, so you could get a few days of constant recording like this! However, you cannot start charging it during an activity – plugging the cable in will end the activity. It’s also at weird angle, so the first few times, I was worried I was going to break it, but somehow this has proved surprisingly robust. The connector is a bit fiddly to apply and needs a solid push to get it to latch on and another tug to remove it. The charging cable connects to a waterproof charge socket on the watch. Note that there is no option to extend GPS battery life via less frequent pings, but anyone that needs a 24+ hour watch is going to need something physically bigger than this. I haven’t done any 5+ hour activities this year, so I can’t say how long it will last in a single session, but reports elsewhere suggest that if you turn everything except GPS off then you’ll get a 10 hour activity out of it which is ok for a watch of this size. It lasted 5 days with an average of 50 minutes GPS exercise each day (4hrs total), bluetooth sync left on, Heart Rate activity tracker on (checks every 10 minutes) and Sleep tracker on (measures movement during the night). After charging and discharging the battery a few times to I tested the run-time. It is charged via a custom connector on the end of a normal USB cable. How long does it last on a single charge? Questions on the support forum get replied to by other users quickly. The Runner 3 brings route tracking and “find way back to start” as the main additions over the Runner 2, so if you think you’d benefit from those, then look at that one. On the hardware support side, my strap broke after 6 months (still useable) and the TomTom online support arranged to send me a replacement immediately, so that side of things is running smoothly. There’s no public development timeline, so there’s no way to know if any further features will be added and the Runner 3 is on the way, so I’m guessing that any changes from now will be minor / bug fix. I’m pleased to report that TomTom have been making changes along the way, including a perfect fix for that bug, as well as new features and improvements to the performance of original features. At the time I first got the watch, there were some areas that needed addressing, most notably, a random crash that would lock the watch until plugged into a PC. The nature of sport watches is that many of them evolve over time via firmware updates and changes to the accompanying mobile apps and web apps. You could also use it as a slightly more exciting activity monitor if you just want to keep an eye on how many steps or calories you’ve done via daily / weekly goals. It’s also waterproof and counts lengths in the pool, so is suitable for swimmers / triathletes. The TomTom Runner 2 Cardio is aimed at multi-sport athletes, from beginners to the proficient, who want to see how far they have been and how hard they worked, with a simple interface and basic nudges during training. I’ve been wearing it almost 24/7 for 7 months now, so it’s time for a review of the TomTom Runner 2 Cardio watch with optical heart rate monitor (HRM) and GPS. ![]()
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